Maura Ginty

Yahoo! Inc. and Geocities Monday finished the first round of their service integration, bringing GeoCities’ more than 4.6 million homesteaders direct access to the Yahoo! Network. Users now access a redesigned Yahoo! GeoCities’ interface, and can use a beta version of Yahoo! PageBuilder to make their homepages. Yahoo! GeoCities’ has also combined the two registration […]

As the online service ramps up its campaign to woo neophyte Net users, Juno Online Services Inc. Monday released version 3.0 of its Internet software with simplified sign-on and additional multimedia options. New multimedia features enable users to send and receive graphic-heavy HTML e-mail, animation and audio by installing the Macromedia Flash player. Other new […]

Netscape Communications Friday announced its Communicator browser is now available in more languages and on more platforms than any other browser on the market, with 23 language versions created in collaboration with IBM. Languages include U.S. and UK English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, simplified and traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, […]

Internet Fund manager Ryan Jacob has chosen to run his own investment advisory firm rather than stick with the mutual fund wonder. Jacob announced his departure from the $650 million-asset fund while a deal was in the works to sell the Internet Fund to Lepercq, de Neuflize & Co., New York, according to a Wall […]

Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. Thursday rolled out a digital download platform featuring a portal, a player, and a download management solution in an effort to put its RipPort subsidiary in the center of the digital download phenom which is moving further into the mainstream. Diamond Multimedia also officially launched wholly-owned RioPort Inc., chartering the company […]

Satellite company SkyBridge LP, which is owned by French Internet player Alcatel SA, Wednesday inked an agreement with government-owned Australian telecom Telstra to deliver broadband satellite services to Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia by 2002. The agreement gives Telstra the option to take equity in the venture and to become the service provider for […]

Computer maker Gateway Inc. reportedly wants to expand its Internet access offerings by acquiring EarthLink Network Inc. Rumors of the talks sent EarthLink shares rocketing Tuesday, giving it a market cap of more than $1.8 billion. The Wall Street Journal said the companies haven’t reached the point of discussing financial terms of a deal. Neither […]

IP telephony company Net2Phone Inc. Tuesday rolled out Net2Fax, PC-to-fax software which allows PC users to send faxes through the Internet. The solution works on a PC platform without requiring multimedia options, sends a single fax to multiple recipients and offers secure login for multiple users. Net2Fax claims the product reduces fax costs by up […]

As the online auction giant continues to recover from a recent string of outages, eBay Inc. Tuesday bought alando.de AG, Germany’s largest online trading company. eBay will take on the services provided by alando.de, which boasts 50,000 registered members, and more than 80,000 items listed in 500 categories. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

Lycos Inc. and Lotus Development Corp. Monday struck a deal to embed the Lycos Internet tools and content into the upgrade to Lotus Notes Release 5, bringing the Lycos Network to an estimated 37 million Lotus Notes users. LotusNotes’ welcome page will offer users localized news and information for each country where it has an […]

Ernst & Young LLP reported in a study released Monday that an increase in online sales and services had minimal effect on the collection of sales and use taxes in 1998, with the total uncollected taxes on the Internet representing a negligible fraction of total tax revenue. The study found that uncollected sales and use […]

In yet another acknowledgement of the increasing popularity of hand-held devices, mobile information company AvantGo Inc. Friday announced that it has secured $14.7 million in its third round of financing from Microsoft Corp., 3Com Corp. and several venture capital firms. New investors appointed Gregory Waldorf to AvantGo’s board of directors. Investment management firm Fayez Sarofim […]