Erin Joyce

NEW YORK — The outgoing president and COO of Sun Microsystems said opportunities for enterprise sales these days — given that there are so few — are in targeting competitors’ installed bases. Especially up for grabs, Ed Zander asserted, are customers of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq while the computing giants consolidate their operations after a bruising […]

NEW YORK – Amazon.com’s chief executive and founder said the online seller will be introducing new product categories on the site, but stayed mum on specifics regarding what and when they would be unveiled. “We want our customers to be the first to know,” Jeff Bezos said Wednesday during investment bank Bear Stearns’ 13th annual […]

Executives at Internet Wire are red-faced and in a hopping-mad hunt for the hoaxer whose bogus press release about biotechnology company Cel-Sci Corp. was distributed by the company Monday. Jim McGovern, chief executive of Internet Wire, said the company retracted the release a few hours after discovering the hoax, spent the day purging it from […]

Despite a slew of divergent numbers on the online advertising outlook, members of the Online Publishing Association say signs of a rebound are showing up in an industry poised for a comeback. Expect better growth this year and next because of five factors, a member of the industry trade organization said Monday. Taken together, they […]

As AOL Time Warner prepares to roll out corporate versions of its popular Instant Messenger service, it is also looking to carve out a bigger share of the enterprise market with a host of Internet-related products. The move would place it squarely in the same competitive arena as Microsoft Corp. , even though AOL’s business-focused […]

Competition is about to heat up for the Nasdaq Stock Market after two rival electronic-exchange platforms agreed to merge. In a marriage of an older trading network with a newer one, New York-based stock trading network Instinet Group Inc. is acquiring the fast-growing electronic-trading platform Island ECN in a stock deal valued at $508 million. […]

They want their ReplayTV. Owners of ReplayTV Digital Video Recorders have struck back at media empires with a lawsuit that asserts they can zap commercials and swap recorded programs over the Internet without being sued for copyright infringement. With the help of online free speech group Electronic Frontier Foundation, five owners of SONICblue’s Replay TV […]

AT&T is moving to renegotiate all or part of an $8 billion credit line in order to ensure its cable/broadband unit can merge with Comcast Corp . The move, which the company detailed in a regulatory filing, comes after credit rating agencies downgraded the phone giant’s rating, effectively increasing its interest rate on borrowing costs […]

Barry Diller, USA Interactive’s chief executive officer, defended as “economically sound” the company’s now-delayed plans to buy out remaining shares of three of its fast-growing subsidiaries. “The idea is that USA wants to simplify its capital structure,” he said Thursday during a conference call. Diller and company officials announced the call in order to discuss […]

Online/Offline content syndicator ScreamingMedia Inc. is throwing its weight behind a growing XML interoperability group that promotes plug-and-play ideals for Web services between businesses. The New York-based company has joined the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) Technical Committee. The Boston-based group works to promote interoperability of XML schema for Web services. The goal […]

USA Interactive’s e-commerce juggernaut keeps rolling on, this time with a pitch to buy out three of its e-commerce subsidiaries in a stock deal valued at about $4.5 billion. The company said it has offered to purchase the remaining shares in online travel site Expedia, Inc. , room-booking play Hotels.com and ticket seller Ticketmaster that […]

USA Interactive , in the hunt to build an e-commerce empire, is acquiring the parent of timeshare-sales company Interval Acquisition Corp. in a $578 million cash and stock deal. The New York-based USA Interactive said it would pay half stock and half cash for the purchase of the Miami-based Interval from venture firm Willis Stein […]