Jim Wagner

Broadwing Inc., is expecting a big payoff from its $44 million investment with optical transmission component maker Corvis Corp. announced Friday. The investment gives Broadwing a partner who can provide switching and signal regenerating equipment necessary for its nationwide and international all-optical network deployment. Rick Ellenberger, Broadwing president and chief executive officer, said the investment […]

Long delays and lost orders has prompted Jump.net to suspend asynchronous digital subscriber line orders Thursday with SBC Communications Inc. subsidiary Advanced Solutions, Inc. New orders placed to Texas-based Jump.net will be held for 30 days before being sent to SBC . Dewey Coffman, Jump.Net vice president of sales and marketing, said its business as […]

Industry leader Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is taking its ASP model and making it work for Internet service provider America Online, Inc.‘s small business subscribers. The deal announced Wednesday lets ADP get its hands on potentially millions of small businesses that use AOL as their storefront. Netscape and CompuServe subscribers are included in the deal. […]

Like notches on a belt, GoAmerica, Inc. continues to collect partnerships with the heavy hitters of the computer industry. GoAmerica Wednesday landed a deal with Dell Computer Corp. to provide wireless Internet access to U.S. customers. The agreement comes eight months after Dell’s more venturesome business division made an equity investment in GoAmerica. Under the […]

Exodus Communications, Inc., is betting customers will prove the truth of the adage, “it takes money to make money.” Exodus added two new value-added services to its portfolio yesterday in its continued move from plain old web hosting to become an infrastructure service provider for enterprise and e-business web sites. It partnered with Cacheflow, Inc.to […]

Excite@Home does not want its customers to stray far from the fold. The leading cable connectivity firm Tuesday upgraded its toolbar and landed a big deal to add Usenet services to its feature mix. WebUseNet is purchasing multiple OC-12 Internet connections from Excite@Home to one build of the largest Usenet-based companies in the world. Mark […]

E-business software giant Siebel Systems, Inc., is the latest company to take advantage of LivePerson, Inc., a live chat company offering real-time sales and customer support for Web sites. Siebel said Weds (Jul 26th) it will embed the ASP’s online service into its midmarket call centre application, part of the recently-launched Siebel eBusiness 2000 suite. […]

Encanto Networks, Inc., made a grab for market share with the launch of its RentableApps Web-based applications portal on Monday (Jul 24th). Encanto touts the applications to small- to medium-sized businesses. Providing functions such as collaboration, surveys, auctions, customer research, warranties and RFQ (request for quotation), they can be rented short-term for a monthly subscription. […]

Nupremis Inc. this week impressed investors with its novel business plan that won the application service provider more than $30 million in first round equity funding. The ASP is putting a twist on the current model of outsourced software solutions, by taking its services directly to broadband providers to brand and re-sell their own flavor […]

Internet portal provider InfoSpace Inc. Thursday bought Go2Net, Inc. for about $4 billion in stock. InfoSpace plans to offer interactive gaming and increase its e-commerce offerings with the acquisition. InfoSpace made the announcement in tandem with its second quarter results, which reported a pro forma net loss of $3.3 million or one cent per share […]

The National Federation of the Blind withdrew its November 1999 complaint against America Online Inc. on the condition the online giant make improvements in its software. As part of the deal, AOL is obliged to add compatibility for screen reading software into AOL 6.0. Currently America Online’s signup software runs on its own dial-up networking […]