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Paul Flessner, the senior vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Enterprise Server Division, has joined the board of directors at Avanade, the new joint venture between Microsoft and Andersen Consulting. Flessner replaces Paul Maritz on Avanade’s board of directors. Maritz was formerly Group Vice President at Microsoft, and sat on Avanade’s board until his recent retirement […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] In response to a bill passed by the American Congress requiring all American schools and libraries that receive federal funding to put filtering software in place, civil liberties group Peacefire has made software available to disable the most popular filtering software available. Peacefire was formed in 1996 to represent the freedom of speech […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] Contracts between suppliers and bidders at Internet auctions are legally valid. This decision was made by the second civil court of appeal of the Hamm provincial court in an appeal on December 14, 2000. The lawsuit centered on a car dealer who had used the ricardo.de platform to put a VW Passat up […]

Web and software developer RTSe USA, Inc. inked a contract to become the official website supplier to Minor League Baseball. The announcement was made official at the Baseball Winter Meetings Trade Show in Dallas where teams, leagues, players as well as vendors were meeting last week. According to J.D. Optekar, President of RTSe USA, the […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Global Trader 247 will be the first online spread trading application in South Africa when it launches early 2001. The company tested their system (available for download from the site ) by inviting 750 traders to see who could make the most profit in 6 weeks. The winner, Wayne Muller, announced this weekend, […]

In a move aimed at speeding the road to profitability, Shockwave.com and AtomFilms have signed a definitive merger agreement. Under the terms of the definitive merger agreement unanimously approved by each company’s board of directors, shockwave.com will acquire AtomFilms in a stock-for-stock deal. After the closing, shareholders of AtomFilms will own thirty percent of the […]

eToys Inc. late Friday announced weaker-than-expected results for the current holiday season and, amid dwindling cash levels, said it will take “aggressive” measures to continue as a going concern, including the possible sale of the company. The company said it believed the shortfall was in large part attributable to a harsh retail climate driven by […]

PaperExchange.com, a privately held Boston company scrambling to stabilize its business after shifting from an online exchange to provider of web applications for paper and pulp companies, announced that CEO Kent Dolby has resigned. Dolby came on board in January, when the startup was still owned by the Kraft Group, was developing a website where […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Usage statistics from Aardvark confirm the recent PriceWaterhouseCooper findings that consumers use the Internet for e-mail and research rather than entertainment. The 5 country Consumer Technology Survey released end October indicated Internet trends in America, Australia, UK, France and Germany. The findings from Aardvark’s November usage statistics show that South Africa is in […]

In a surprise announcement late Thursday afternoon, Microsoft warned that revenue and earnings for its second quarter ending Dec. 31, 2000, would be below the company’s previous expectations. In a conference call to analysts and investors, CFO John Connors announced that revenue for the second quarter is now expected to be in the range of […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] With the dot.bomb news dominating the digital waves over the past six months, one would think the industry is dead and buried. But has anyone actually stopped and analyzed the shake out to determine who will benefit from this correction? Journalists continue to report on the doom and gloom. Just take a look […]

San Jose-based Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) continued its push in the wireless Internet space today with a definitive agreement to acquire ExiO Communications, also based in San Jose, and the 23rd acquisition for the company this year. ExiO develops in-building, wireless technologies for corporate networks based on standard, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technologies. In […]