Elizabeth Clampet

Personalized Web service Planet Direct added AT&T WorldNet to its list of Internet service provider affiliates Tuesday in a strategic alliance that gives WorldNet customers direct access to Planet Direct’s offerings. Under terms of the alliance, AT&T will power a Web site, www.yourworldnet.com, where WorldNet subscribers have access to Planet Direct’s services. They include personalized […]

InfoSpace.com, Inc. Tuesday expanded its services into the television market by signing an agreement with Paxson Communications Corp. to provide local Web directory services to Paxson’s television stations’ Web sites. Paxson owns and operates more than 85 local television stations throughout the country, as well as the PAX TV cable channel, reaching more than 1 […]

In a deal designed to incorporate more news content into its service, Compuserve Monday entered into an agreement with the New York Times Electronic Media company to host New York Times headlines on its GO NEWS channel. The one-year agreement calls for the New York Times on the Web to provide daily headlines from its […]

Big Entertainment, Inc. Monday purchased entertainment firm Hollywood Online from parent company Times Mirror in a stock deal worth $31 million. Hollywood Online’s hollywood.com site provides movie and celebrity-related multimedia information, including editorial content and movie show times for about 75 percent of screens nationwide. Big Entertainment currently owns and operates bige.com, an e-commerce studio […]

Community site GeoCities Friday said it will revamp its GeoShops online storefront utility, and signed an agreement with IT firm InterWorld Corp. to develop a new e-commerce infrastructure. GeoShops provides tools for GeoCities members to create and maintain an online retail site. InterWorld specializes in providing enterprise-class Internet commerce software for sales, order management, fulfillment […]

CyberCash Inc., a Web payment solution firm, Thursday announced it has raised $10 million in equity capital to support the roll out of its new InstaBuy shopping service. The funds were raised through a private placement of common stock and warrants. The private placement involves the issuance of units of one share of the company’s […]

Web hosting company Sage Networks Inc. Thursday closed its acquisition of Dialtone Internet’s Web hosting divisions, marking its eleventh acquisition since April, 1998. Sage acquired Web Hosting To Go and T3 Hosting services from the Florida-based Dialtone Internet. Dialtone specializes in Web hosting and maintenance for small businesses in the Linux and Windows NT platforms. […]

Internet service provider Verio, Inc. this week finalized its acquisition of Florida’s Hiway Technologies, Inc., with a reported price tag of $351 million. The Hiway acquisition adds more than 2,000 resellers to Verio’s worldwide distribution channels,bringing the company’s reseller roster to more than 4,000 in more than 170 countries. With the acquisition finalized, Verio said […]

Telecommunications firm CalTech International and software developer Aurorasoft combined their skills to form a new Internet company designed to enhance Web functions. IP Technologies Inc.’s strategy is to research, develop and implement creative ways of using Internet technologies to enhance business and personal transactions. The company said it will offer a variety of products. “We […]

America Online Inc. Tuesday named CBS News as the exclusive broadcast news provider on AOL and CompuServe, as well as AOL.com. Under the terms of the agreement, CBS News will be guaranteed a major and ongoing presence throughout AOL, CompuServe and AOL.COM. CBS will also provide on-air promotion of AOL within its television news broadcasts […]

Microsoft’s Hotmail e-mail service Tuesday began offering virus detection software free to its estimated 30 million users. The move reverses an earlier decision to charge for the service. Aimed at protecting users against infected file attachments, Hotmail is giving away Network Associates Inc.’s McAfee VirusScan free to members of the Web-based e-mail service. Members can […]

Aiming to ease security implementation for large networks, Internet Security Systems Monday released a new decision-support application, Decisions 1.0. The program is designed to provide customers with the power to make quick, informed decisions for ongoing information protection. It automates the collection, integration, analysis and reporting of enterprise-wide security information from multiple sources and locations. […]