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After entering into the market with their initial product, Cypher, last September, Seattle-based Widevine Technologies has now jumped into the enterprise space with the launch of Enterprise Widevine Cypher. The new product, which greatly resembles the Broadcast-targeted release of Cypher, is designed to secure confidential streaming media content for corporations relying on Internet and private […]

With fourth quarter net losses widening by some 35 percent, spoken word Web publisher Audible Inc. said today it had reworked its marketing deal with Amazon.com to save more than $7 million. The original agreement, struck on January 31, 2000, required Audible to pay Amazon.com a minimum of $10 million in 2002, but the company […]

New York-based IntraLinks, Inc. secured $40 million in funding from Rho Ventures and investment afffiliates of Soros Private Equity Partners. The company, which hooks up a neutral online space for users to collaborate and share information with co-workers, said the round of funding also included investments from Emigrant Capital and Lago Ventures. Previous investors Reuters, […]

So you’ve made an initial impact on information technology and a nice sum of money through a number of the Internet’s big players. What is left to do now? For one local technologist from Electronic Book Technologies and his team of former executives from AT&T Wireless Services, Microsoft Corp., and GO.com, the answer was opening […]

Lawson Software is selecting Digex Inc. as the managed hosting provider for the lawson.insight e-Procurement Service. The companies announced the strategic agreement at the recent annual Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. Lawson’s e-Procurement Service, the company’s Web-hosted purchasing management service, provides automated requisitioning, approval, receiving, reconciliation, invoice payment […]

NorthPoint Communications, the beleaguered Emeryville-based DSL provider that has suffered major stock depreciation, corporate and shareholder lawsuits, and near bankruptcy during the last 52 weeks, was delisted from NASDAQ Thursday morning just weeks after the company filed for bankruptcy protection. In early December, NorthPoint issued a lawsuit against phone giant Verizon Communications for pulling out […]

BSQUARE Wednesday unveiled its new iWin Information Appliance Design Kit for designing, developing and deploying Windows CE-based Net appliances. The company said that several large vendors, including Matsushita Electric Industrial, National Semiconductor and Sageport have committed to iWin for information appliances. The kit is aimed at development of devices such as tablet handhelds, e-book readers […]

Worldbid.com has partnered up with Spanish Portal Canarias Negocios to develop Spain’s newest trade lead worldbidspain.com. Spanish exporters will have the ability to market their products to over 40,000 companies around the world and buyers will be able to access products from more than 1,200 industries. Canarias Negocios is a business portal that gives integral […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] A majority of online users approve of the sale of medicinal drugs over the Internet, yet the opportunities already available for such sales are still approached with great caution. Consumer uncertainty is the main reason for this. This was the result of a study of 1000 German Internet users carried out by MediaTransfer, […]

[Singapore] Web-based directory service provider eGuide Singapore has launched an electronic marketplace that will not only facilitate B2B and B2C e-commerce across borders, but will also provide a credit risk rating service to companies listed in the directory. The eGuide Marketplace is intended to enhance the company’s current Internet directory service with B2B transaction facilities […]

Viant Corp. reported worse-than-expected earnings today, another disappointment in what has been a brutal stretch for the Boston online consultancy. Viant, which warned in December that its fourth-quarter losses would equal about 7 cents per share, announced losses doubleing that figure. During the three months ending in December the company lost $7.1 million, or 14 […]

AOL president Michael Lynton tells Handelsblatt a flotation of AOL Europe is definitely being considered According to an interview in the German newspaper, a flotation of AOL’s European operations is on the cards, possibly when market conditions improve. Lynton also dismissed rumours that the merger with Time Warner would lead to sizeable European redundancies, but […]