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Cost Of eBay’s 22-Hour Outage Put At $2 Million
Online auction wonder eBay Inc. may be ousted from...
eBay Buys German Online Auctioneer
As the online auction giant continues to recover from...
Excite@Home Buys Blue Mountain Arts for $780 Million
With visions of holiday marketing and broadband promotion, Excite@Home...
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INWW Signs New Deals, Opens U.S. Operations
Internet Names WorldWide (INWW) this
week formed partnerships with Intuit, Verio and Digital Envoy as part of its push for
secure domain name management for businesses, as well as formally launching
its operations in the U.S.
Under the...
Chase, Investia Team for European Online Investor Service
Chase Manhattan Bank's Global Investor
Services Tuesday introduced a $20 million venture with Investia to create a
business-targeted European mutual fund marketplace.
The FundsHub service will allow banks and other finance service companies to
outsource mutual funds and...
Icon Medialab Buys Spanish Consultancy
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Medialab International AB Monday bought Spain's Nexus Information
Technology S.A., in a move to solidify the firm's European presence amidst
heightened competition.
The purchase will be made through the issue of 1.5 million shares...
Gateway Aims for Latino Appeal with quepasa.com Investment
Hoping to woo the U.S. Latino market, Gateway Inc. Friday took a stake in portal quepasa.com.
In the deal, Gateway (GTW)
will put $10 million into quepasa.com (PASA)
for a 7.6 percent stake in the Spanish-language portal....
InnoMedia Bags $115.5 Million in Financing
Singapore-based voice-over-IP supplier InnoMedia Wednesday brought in $115.5
million in its most recent round of venture capital financing.
The funds will go to expansions of InnoMedia's engineering resources, more
marketing efforts, and support of the company's VoIP...
E-Loan Europe Sprouts German, French Versions
Following months of preparation, E-LOAN
Europe Tuesday rolled out new versions in Germany and France.
The two new sites will offer the same online mortgage services that E-Loan
(EELN)
produces in the United States and will eventually add...
Investor, Ericsson, Hutchison Target Asia Wireless
Swedish holding company Investor,
wireless mogul Ericsson and Hong Kong
conglomerate Hutchison
Whampoa this week jointly bought the majority stake in Asia wireless
player Guoco Land Ltd. for $177 million.
Bolstered with the new funds, the company intends to...
E*Trade Introduces Brokerage in Denmark
E*Trade Group Inc. Monday launched E*Trade Danmark, the product of an alliance
between E*Trade Nordic AB and Danish brokerage Difko Borsmaeglerselskab A/S.
The site will offer individual investors in Denmark the ability to trade
Copenhagen Stock Exchange...
