Erin Joyce

In a move that boosts the profile of two technology trade associations, the Washington, D.C.-based Software & Information Industry Association is acquiring the New York New Media Association, atNewYork.com has learned. SIIA representatives couldn’t comment on the acquisition; however, other sources familiar with both organizations have confirmed. The plan, sources said, is for the two […]

For some time now, online recruiting sites such as HotJobs.com and Monster.com have gleefully pilfered help wanted advertising away from newspapers’ classified sections. But recently, newspapers have begun fighting back more aggressively, embracing the Internet wholeheartedly. Few newspapers, however, have opted for the approach taken by the New York Times Company , which recently merged […]

By Erin Joyce Shares of International Business Machines dropped by 10 percent during morning trading after the computing bellwether announced a sharp drop in expected earnings for the first quarter of 2002. The company blamed a continued slowdown in tech spending by corporate clients for first quarter revenue that it expected in the range of […]

America Online is testing a beta version of its latest browser technology that could portend a looming skirmish in its ongoing browser wars with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The browser software is a layout engine dubbed “Gecko”. It builds on the guts of Netscape’s core browser but includes support for open Internet standards such as HTML […]

After hinting about the move earlier this year, PDA-based city guide provider Vindigo is launching a subscription service for palm devices, sources familiar with the company said. The city guide service, expected to be an annual fee of $24.95, is scheduled to launch on Monday, as the New York-based company releases its Vindigo version 2.0 […]

Web and Internet measurement firms NetRatings, Inc. and Jupiter Media Metrix, have called off their $71.2 million merger agreement after federal trade officials raised competitive objections about the deal. Shares of Jupiter Media Metrix had dropped by 74 percent to 21 cents on the Nasdaq during Tuesday’s morning session in heavy volume, almost twice the […]

And now, it’s free Web portal iVillage‘s turn to look for ways to get its loyal base of users to start paying. Although most of the services on the network of sites under the iVillage roof still remain supported by advertising, the company has begun a survey of its readers to test whether they might […]

The US Patent office said it awarded International Business Machines a record 3,411 patents in 2001, making it the first company to surpass 3,000 patents in one year. It was the ninth year in a row that IBM sat atop the rankings, which are tracked by IFI Claims Patent Services, a private research firm based […]

As assistant director of knowledge management for the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, John Szekeres spends his days looking for ways to leverage intellectual assets. Within its securities law practice, for example, Cleary was using secure extranets to help clients mark-up and swap confidential documents. Internally, the technology could also help new associates […]

ISP contender EarthLink , in the hunt for new customers amid moribund personal computer sales, has agreed to purchase portable e-mail device maker Cidco Inc. . The $5 million deal is expected to net EarthLink roughly 120,000 Cidco customers to its subscriber base of just under 5 million. The Atlanta-based Earthlink is ranked among the […]

Just five months after it paid roughly $8 million in cash and stock to acquire New York-based interactive agency Iguana Studios, its parent company Change Technology Partners, Inc. (OTCBB:CTPI) is closing the office. Former employees said the former Iguana Studios office was as good as closed as of last week but a receptionist at the […]

Automated Marketing Management. Marketing Process Management. If they sound like buzzwords in Web-based software, that’s because they are. Or, at least they were before the market for Web services turned chilly. But despite some tough market conditions that has customers holding off on new software purchases, New York-based Notara, which specializes in designing automated marketing […]