Elizabeth Clampet

The founders of community site theglobe.com, Inc. have stepped down after seeing its stock fall into the single digits and experiencing wider-than-expected losses. Stephen Paternot and Todd Krizelman said Friday they will step down as co-chief executive officers, with current Chief Operating Officer Dean Daniels taking the role of president. The search for a new […]

The most popular e-tailer Friday announced plans to trim 150 employees from its work force. According to published reports, Amazon.com (AMZN) spokesman Bill Curry said the layoffs, which amount to 2 percent of its total work force are the result of a operational reviews, and would occur across the company. No specific departments were mentioned […]

Broadvision Inc. took steps to expand its wireless development resources Wednesday with the $852 million acquisition of Interleaf Inc., a provider of enterprise-wide software for content management and publishing. Broadvision (BVSN) will issue approximately 5.6 million shares of its common stock to pay for the purchase. The companies expect to close the transaction by May […]

Domain registrar register.com Inc. Wednesday launched a tool designed to simplify domain name registration to one step. Domain Manager 3.0 provides register.com customers quick registration time as well as management tools for updating domain information. The application remembers information already provided by customers for future purchases. With it, existing customers purchasing additional domain names will […]

Online toy retailer eToys Inc. this week agreed to drop its lawsuit against the owners of the domain name etoy.com and will reportedly reimburse the owners up to $40,000 in legal fees. eToys (ETYS) filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against a group of Swiss artists in September over the domain etoy.com. In November, the Los Angeles […]

3Com Corp. Tuesday laid out its strategy for expanding in the infrastructure space by delivering its e-Networks tools to service providers. Based on its CommWorks architecture, 3Com (COMS) plans to deliver packet-based networking tools for service providers by enabling ISPs and others to consolidate their existing disparate infrastructures for remote access, IP telephony, wireless data, […]

Healtheon/WebMD Corp. added to its busy week Tuesday by forming a $100 million multi-year partnership with fellow online medical company Medtronic Inc. to provide consolidated medical resources for physicians and consumers. The two companies will work together over the next four years to combine Healtheon/WebMD’s (HLTH) overall healthcare information with medical technology information from Medtronic […]

Prompted by the success of its brand in central and South America, America Online Inc. will take its Latin America subsidiary public with a proposed initial public offering of $575 million. America Online Latin America, Inc., whose proposed ticker symbol is AOLA, filed this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell $575 million […]

Those who have always wanted their own butler can get their wish, virtually, as search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. Thursday debuted a customized service called Personal Jeeves. Personal Jeeves as a platform that provides targeted information and customized services to consumers based on their needs and interests. Features include a daily answer, which provides customized […]

After much anticipation and speculation by industry insiders, start-up Transmeta Inc. Wednesday unveiled its processor product line, designed specifically to speed up the online functions of Internet appliances. At a press conference Wednesday morning, Transmeta Chief Executive Officer Dave Ditzel debuted two chips in the Crusoe family of software-based processors with speeds of up to […]

Online software retailer Beyond.com Wednesday announced plans to focus on business customers and move out of the retail space. It also plans to trim staff by 20 percent in and is losing its chief executive officer. Under the restructuring plan, which is expected to result in a charge of between $2 million and $3 million, […]

In a move to expand its development resources, mozilla.org Tuesday added security source code, courtesy of the Sun/Netscape Alliance, to its browser development resources. The Sun/Netscape Alliance will contribute its public key infrastructure source code to Mozilla, including versions of the Netscape Security Services and Personal Security Manager tools. NSS provides secure sockets layer (SSL) […]