Michael Sedge

[Rome, ITALY] Deepbridge Content Solutions, a leading provider of personalized content management, CRM and e-commerce solutions in the USA, announced its entrance into the European business-to-business market with the establishment of an operational headquarters in Rome. “Europe is the fastest growing Internet market today,” said Mark Abouzeid, Senior Technical Strategies, Mark Abouzeid, who will manage […]

[Vicenza, Italy] Geographical targeting and classification cataloging are the future of successful search engines according to the management of DominItaliani, one of the fastest growing Web engines in Europe. “Today 80 percent of all Internet traffic is driven through search engines,” explained Stefano Zanin, founder and CEO of DominiItaliani Srl. As more and more domains […]

[Fiuggi, ITALY] Unification and ease of entry into the global B2C and B2B marketplace will be the key to Net development in Italy, according to a presentation by Star System Roma S.p.A. “Italy offers a wealth of products and services that must be part of our nation’s future e-commerce,” explained Umberto Vitale, General Manager of […]

[Florence, ITALY] Italian Internet incubator, NetStrategy and the Los Angeles-based accelerator NetCatalyst, announced a merger that, according to management, will fulfill the global expansion visions of each company. “With a physical presence in the United States, in Europe and in Asia,” said Niccolo Innocenti, managing director of NetStrategy, who will become CEO-Europe for the new […]

[Rome, Italy] While many U.S.-based e-businesses continue to resist European expansion, the same cannot be said about industry media. Ken Rutkowski, host of World Technology Roundup, the daily radio webcast heard by 120,000 listeners around the world as well as the weekly eYada program, e-Files, showed up in the Italian capital this week to report […]

[Milan, Italy] Cable company, Pirelli Spa, announced that it has reached an agreement with Corning for the sale of share capital in Optical Technologies totaling over $3 billion. Pirelli currently owns 90 percent of Optical Technologies, a Delaware-based company manufacturing optical components. The remaining 10 percent is owned by Cisco Systems. In a company statement, […]

[Rome, Italy] Grande Fratello, the Italian version of the popular voyeur television program, Big Brother, that has been sweeping the globe, is taking the Mediterranean peninsulas Internet by storm. “We are working to double our capability to insure quality and speed,” explained Massimo Armanini, general manager of Jumpy, the Italian portal that offers live webcast […]

[Rome, ITALY] Kataweb, the Internet holding of Italian media conglomerate Gruppo Editoriale Espresso, announced that it has acquired 100 percent of software development and integrated services company, Aleph Srl. Looking to strengthen its in-house systems integration capabilities, Kataweb acquired 51 percent of Pisa-based Aleph last June. The company, founded in 1992, had sales of $4 […]

[Milan, ITALY] The Italian ISP, Nopay.it, is leading the way to the future of European Internet with an announcement that it will provide no cost access and connection throughout the Mediterranean peninsula. The service, which begins this week, will offer a double savings to Italian Internet users, Nopay said. First, there will be no subscription […]

[MILAN, Italy] The Internet and telecommunications service provider, Tiscali, announced that an agreement has been reached with Hutchison Whampoa to form an Italian-Chinese super-power, under the title Andala. The new company will compete for one of five licenses to be issued by the Italian Communications Commission for UMTS, a third-generation cellular telephone service. “I am […]

[Milan, ITALY] In two separate negotiations, Internet giants Cisco Systems and Microsoft each eased a foot into the doorway of Italy’s growing New Economy. Microsoft announced last week that it had purchased a significant share of Blixer, Italy’s leading provider of telephone services over the Internet. In only seven months of operation, Blixer, which was […]

[Rome, ITALY] Ken Rutkowski, the Los Angeles-based host of the daily radio show, World Technology Roundup, has joined the international line-up of industry experts slated to participate in the second annual E-Commerce Summit, October 4, 5 and 6 at the Rome Airport Hilton. “Europe has a golden opportunity to develop Internet commerce,” Rutkowski told Internet […]