Maura Ginty

Fresh from renewed criticisms of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers’ dealings with the Department of Justice, House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley is now calling for investigations into whether the White House engaged in illegal fundraising for the financially-strapped organization. According to published reports, Bliley Thursday sent a letter asking for detailed […]

AT&T Corp, British Telecommunications and Rogers Cantel Thursday sealed a three-way deal to market and bundle both wired and wireless services, including mobile Internet and data communications. AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications Thursday jointly acquired a 33 percent stake in Rogers Cantel Mobile for Cdn $1.4 billion (US$934 million) in cash. BT has also taken […]

America Online Inc. Thursday enlisted Big Entertainment in its yet-to-be-launched Latin America service. Translated versions of movie site Hollywood.com and online movie store bigE.com will be rolled out across the Latin American AOL Network. Hollywood.com will become an AOL anchor site in the region, while bigE.com will be rolled out across the Latin American version […]

Go2Net Inc. Wednesday acquired popular metasearch engine Dogpile for $55 million in cash and stock. Dogpile will be the Web site network’s second trophy in the search engine purchase arena, following its previous acquisition of MetaCrawler. Dogpile’s proprietary search technologies will be added to the Go2Net Network to allow users to search for specific businesses […]

Moving east from its latest acquisition last week in Spain, PSINet Inc. Tuesday took its travelling shopping spree to Austria with the purchase of Austrian ISPs CSO.Net and Netwing. The two companies will be combined and renamed PSINet Austria. Terms of the agreements were not disclosed. CSO.Net connectivity and Web hosting customers include German television […]

The latest venture of Bill Gross’ Idealab aims to expand intranet usage beyond corporate America to small and medium-sized businesses. In addition to standard intranet features, the service offers free Web hosting and limited availability of customized URLs on the larger Intranets.com site. “The demand for intranets by smaller businesses is skyrocketing and there is […]

EarthLink Network Friday announced it will drop its distribution agreement with low-cost computer Microworkz Inc. Kirsten Kappos, EarthLink vice-president of corporate communications said EarthLink terminated the agreement with Microworkz on July 29 after the company failed to live up to its original agreement. “Microworkz failed to meet the obligations of the distribution agreement made between […]

E-business and convergent communications company RMI.NET, Inc. went on a shopping spree Friday, buying ISP ACES Research Inc. for approximately $2 million as well as the Web hosting assets of Net One Communications Corp. The ISP is the largest bandwidth provider in southern Arizona. The acquisition of ACES Research will propel RMI.NET’s regional e-commerce efforts […]

AT&T Corp. and music marketers Electric Artists Thursday announced plans to develop an e-commerce platform for digital music downloads. Electric Artists will partner with AT&T to develop strategic relationships with music companies and artists to propel AT&T’s a2b music into prominence in the music download market. AT&T hopes Electric Artists’ extensive music company client base […]

Webhire Inc. Wednesday announced an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to deliver a resume management tool as part of its online career center. Yahoo! will add $1.5 million to Softbank’s $20 million investment announced on July 20, in exchange for which Yahoo! will take a minority stake in the recruiting company. The deal also includes an […]

In another move outside of its original airline ticketing niche, Priceline.com Inc. Wednesday inked a deal with AutoNation Inc. to auction new cars online. Customers can now make bids for a new car at Priceline.com, with the offers forwarded to AutoNation dealerships near the customer’s address. The service was first launched in Tampa, Fla., after […]

CNET Inc. Tuesday bought technology product information provider GDT, S.A. in a cash and stock deal worth $50 million. Switzerland-based GDT maintains a multi-language database indexing product images, descriptions and specifications. CNET plans to use the service for its online shopping section and its advertisers. For each SKU, users will see up to 600 unique […]