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If It Walks Like a Duck, Quack.com
America Online announced its land-grab of voice
recognition portal...
Freeserve Falling Off the Apple Cart
The slope on UK-based Freeserve's six-month
stock chart looks...
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Dr. Drew Flies the Koop
In the M&A landscape, here's a true match made in heaven. Drkoop.com
announced plans to acquire drDrew.com for 1.58 million shares of
common stock and roughly $150,000 in cash. Based on drkoop.com's buck-o-five share price,...
Datek Scrubbing its Boiler Room Roots
One of the best online discount brokers in the business is bending over
backwards to get better. Datek Online is
close to unveiling a deal that would sell the majority interests of its two
questionable principal shareholders,...
What’s Next for Napster?
In a classic trick or treat tailor-made for Halloween night, Napster dropped an unexpected bombshell
that it has struck a pact with Bertelsmann AG. Under the deal, the two
parties will cook up a peer-to-peer paid...
Primedia Takes About.com Offline
Primedia set out to make a splash in the financial
community with its $700 million land-grab announcement of human-guided
search portal, About, Inc. . The offline magazine
publisher figured sprinkling a dash of dot-com zip to...
M&A Bingo: The Check’s in The Mail
It's time to take M&A Bingo off the shelf and dust off our playing card to
see how the consolidation patch is shaping up (for a recap of M&A Bingo's
oddball rules, check out "Let's Play...
Lawmakers Make Gabbing Behind the Wheel Illegal
Lawmakers in Suffolk County, New York have made it illegal for people to
juggle talking on a cell phone while driving a car. The move marks the
first county in the U.S. to put...
Privacy Watchdog Truste All Bark, No Bite
So-called privacy advocate Truste
slapped a trademark infringement lawsuit against American-Politics.com after the
no-name political rag allegedly posted an unpaid Truste 'seal of approval'
on its Web site. Keeping consistent with its shameless publicity-hound...
Global Sports Nets Fogdog For a Song
Wielding a consolidation pooper-scooper, Global Sports announced plans to acquire struggling sporting goods e-tailer
Fogdog for roughly $40 million in cash and
stock. Fogdog's stock price has gradually slipped beneath the waves...
