Erin Joyce

Voice-over-IP start-up Net2Phone is poised to offer a broad range of products to enterprise clients around the globe now that it has signed a distribution deal with telephony and hardware products maker MacroVoice Networks. The arrangement means that 4,000 resellers of MacroVoice products will also pitch Net2Phone’s business lines among their offerings. The distribution alliance, […]

The consolidation dance among struggling interactive consulting firms has taken another turn with the acquisition of digital services firm K2 Digital by Arizona-based Integrated Information Systems . IIS said it acquired certain assets, management and professional staff of the New York-based K2 Digital and that the merged staff would continue to work out of K2’s […]

A year and a half after switching its main focus to business customers, online billing provider PayTrust is hanging tough in a tough environment for online billing management services. And the strategy switch is paying off. The New Jersey-based PayTrust has just signed a deal with securities clearing firm U.S. Clearing in which it would […]

Internet service provider Juno Online Services, Inc. got paying customers to pony up more and slashed costs during the second quarter, which helped narrow its net losses by over 90 percent within a year. The New York-based Juno, which is merging with former all-free ISP rival NetZero to become United Online, said its net loss […]

On the heels of AT&T’s announcement that its broadband division would improve its margins within three years, a published report said AOL Time Warner is in friendly talks with AT&T Corp. about a possible merger of the two companies’ cable operations. Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said the talks between […]

Content aggregator ScreamingMedia liked the investment tools that it was syndicating for Stockpoint so much, it decided to buy the company in a deal valued at $21.6 million in stock, cash and debt. When the acquisition closes, the New York based ScreamingMedia will have drilled itself a financial services vertical and boosted its combined annual […]

Lurking around all the industry buzz this week regarding Comcast Corp.’s $58 billion stock and debt bid for AT&T Broadband is whether the Philadelphia-based cable provider will bring on a partner to help juice up the price. On Wednesday, 10 days after receiving the offer, AT&T’s Board of Directors rejected Comcast’s hostile bid to acquire […]

Even though Comcast Corp’s hostile $44.5 billion bid for the cable assets of AT&T Corp. works out to about 35 cents on AT&T’s dollar investment in the division, analysts and observers of the cable and broadband market think Comcast may prevail in its quest to take over the nation’s largest cable provider. First of all, […]

Given the major presence of Palm Inc. at the TechXNY show this week, it’s no surprise that wireless devices dominated many of the displays, which helped attract more consumers to the Javits Convention Center this year. But with the event’s focus on enterprise issues, some of the real buzz was around products that help developers […]

Audience measurement outfit Arbitron, Inc. calls them “streamies,” otherwise known as people who dial up or request audio or video streams over the Internet. They’re also called desirable demos, early-adopter media consumers with higher than usual incomes and education levels — just the disposable cash that advertisers want to reach. Now, Arbitron has unveiled a […]

NetZero, Inc. of Westlake Village, Calif. and New York-based Juno Online Services, Inc. announced they would merge to become the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider. The all-stock transaction, valued at an estimated $70.7 million based on Thursday’s closing prices, would place the new company second to America Online in the country’s ISPs. Curiously missing from […]

NEW YORK — The chairman of Microsoft Corp. took the stage in New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom today to unveil the highly anticipated Office XP suite, the company’s first big step away from desktop software and toward its .NET strategy of offering centralized software and services. “We really do see this as a very big milestone […]