Fauve Yandel

Despite canceling its plans for a $65 million IPO last November, Atlanta-based AutoTrader.com, Inc. is ready to spend what it takes to make the online car buying/selling service a household name. The company will spend $40 million in an advertising campaign set to launch early this year. Turner Network’s coverage of the NBA will feature […]

Perhaps it’s not as monumental as the formation of United Artists, but the end result of a new partnership will hopefully mean an easier way for Spielberg wannabes to create movies and presentations using streaming media. Roswell, Ga.-based portalNATION Digital Media and Convera (Nasdaq: CNVR), a provider of technologies, products and solutions, have formed a […]

AppForge, the Atlanta-based provider of application development solutions for handheld and mobile devices, anticipates that 2001 will be a very good year for the company. Aside from recently signing a licensing agreement to distribute the AppForge Booster on Palm devices, the company is not only attracting attention from Silicon Valley’s movers and shakers, but also […]

Novient might have pulled its IPO filing earlier this month, but according to Ian Hoffman, vice president of marketing for the Atlanta-based developer of Web-based automated software, 2000 was all about meeting and beating expectations. “2000 was an incredible year of growth for Novient, and now we are positioned to soundly grow stronger into the […]

The fourth-quarter news for Web hosting firm Interland wasn’t as bad as previously predicted, as the company confirmed today that losses for the last quarter of 2000 would range between 42 to 44 cents per-share, squeaking under previous analysts’ predictions of 46 cents per-share. Interland also announced a major promotion in its senior management team. […]

New Edge Networks Friday moved to expand its high-speed DSL and other services geared towards the business class to Augusta, Ga., marking one of the company’s first steps since its restructuring in November 2000. The Vancouver, Wash.-based company has completed installation of network equipment in Augusta, and city residents can now place orders for DSL, […]

AtWork Technologies, a provider of Internet-based human resource management applications for mid-sized companies, announced that Roseland, NJ.-based Automatic Data Processing (ADP) has made a $5 million minority equity investment in AtWork Technologies. AtWork and ADP will also partner on a comprehensive Web-based solution which will allow mid-market companies to manage their employees’ health and welfare […]

ATLANTA — The much-rumored and highly-anticipated layoffs at CNN were unveiled Wednesday and no department felt the brunt of the dreaded pink slips more than CNN Interactive. CNN Interactive will lose one-third of its employees in the Atlanta-based media giant’s sweeping layoffs. Other cuts will come from CNN programming and other sectors of the company. […]

Bryan Mundy, co-founder of Atlanta-based EzGov Inc., was among two people who died of smoke inhalation early Monday morning as flames overtook Mundy’s brick home on Pelham Road, an upscale street in the Piedmont Heights area of Midtown. Mundy, 36, also served as chairman of EzGov, a two-year-old company that supplies government agencies with software […]

Atlanta-based CNN is expected to announce significant layoffs in a massive company-wide restructuring plan as soon as next week, according to today’s Wall Street Journal. As many as 1,000 jobs could be affected, according to the report. The anticipated cutbacks would occur in response to CNN consolidating its television and Internet divisions following the expected […]

After announcing nationwide rate increases in cable packages earlier this week, AT&T Broadband unexpectedly laid off 309 Atlanta-based employees Thursday in an effort to improve customer satisfaction. The layoffs at Atlanta’s largest cable provider make up about one sixth of a work force of approximately 1,800 employees, with eliminated positions including some mid-level managers, customer […]