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Online gardening products retailer Garden.com (Nasdaq: GDEN) late Wednesday said it sold its content assets to Brisbane-based Walmart.com. On Nov 15, 2000, Garden.com said it would be closing its doors and that it planned to sell its consumer business assets after it failed to secure financing to fund operations or find a buyer for the […]

The softening economy has hit market intelligence and research firm Jupiter Media Metrix Inc. which announced lowered expectations on fourth quarter revenues and layoffs of 80 staff members. The job cuts represent about an 8 percent reduction in staff levels across the board and include six analysts within the Jupiter research division and six sales […]

Despite recording their highest revenues to date, Click2learn.com, Inc. announced the company will report lower than anticipated financial results. The Company expects to report revenues for the quarter of approximately $11.2 million, up approximately 17% from 1999, resulting in a pro forma net loss of between $0.25 and $0.27 per share. This compares to revenue […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] In the past financial year, Germany’s T-Mobil managed to more than double its number of T-D1 customers. As of December 31, 2000, there were 19.14 million customers using the Bonn-based company’s digital cellular phone network to communicate. That was almost 10.1 million – or 111 percent – more than in the year before […]

Worldwide Xceed Group, an Alley interactive consulting firm hit hard by the dot-com downturn, reported a loss from continuing operations of $43.8 million, or $1.73 per share, on revenues of $13 million for its fiscal first quarter ending Nov. 30th. The results represented a difference of 812% compared to its net loss of $4.8 million, […]

HERZLIYA, Israel – “The Internet is a pool of disorganized data,” says Dror Zelber, product manager for Ankura, an information management company based here. “How do you save just the precise data that you need?” Ankura’s answer, it’s MixM application, has been recently released as a browser add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer. In its incarnation […]

The Worldwide Ecommerce Fraud Prevention Network went live today, kicking off its mission to crack down on fraudulent ecommerce transactions around the world. The network’s site claims to provide free expert advice for online businesses on how to combat internet fraud, such as unauthorised credit card transactions. The site, merchantfraudsquad.com offers a number of tools […]

With banner click-through rates falling over the past year, marketers are looking for other ways to attract eyeballs. Games are just one of the online activities, which are now providing opportunities to those looking to veer away from traditional banners. Media Metrix’s latest data labels gaming as the 5th “stickiest” online activity, with users averaging […]

In a move to clarify their market position, Bellingham-based Post Point Software, a designer of content caching software and Internet performance solutions, announced its name change to XCache Technologies. According to officials at Xcache, the change is representative of the company’s strategic transition to cache management and dynamic content delivery that began early in 2000 […]

[Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC] On-line auction server Vatera.com has started its activities in the Czech Republic as the fifth European country after Greece, Poland, Hungary and Turkey. It intends to succeed with C2C business, unusual so far for local Internet users. Vatera.com is Greek enterprise founded and headed by Mr. Panagiotis Gomopoulos. It has been started […]

The recent spate of hacker attacks on prominent Israeli websites is part of a global problem with no short-term solution, Gilad Rabinovich, CEO of Israeli ISP Netvision, said at a symposium at Ben Gurion University. “Let me be clear, there is no such thing as an immune site,” Rabinovich said. Netvision, which according to the […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] According to a report by the Financial Times Deutschland, Deutsche Telekom wants shares in the third-largest mobile service operator in France, Bouygues Telecom. With reference to internal sources, the paper reported that the two companies were last in negotiations about this in December. Similar talks have also taken place with the largest Japanese […]