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Yahoo! Thursday outlined its new business strategy to the joy of analysts who say it was about time that the Internet’s most traveled site grew up. In a day full of presentations by Yahoo! top brass, CEO Terry Semel pled his case in front of analysts, investors and the media saying that the company’s future […]

The company formerly known as Netergy Networks Tuesday released an improvement to its telecommunications application software offerings. Santa Clara, Calif.-based 8×8, Inc. offers telecommunication services platforms, hosted iPBX solutions (through its French subsidiary Centile), voice and video semiconductors and related software. Known as Service Logic Execution Environment (eSLEE), the new software succeeds the company’s service […]

Digital Island, a Cable & Wireless property Tuesday says it has inked a deal to supply Sony Music Entertainment artists and label Web sites with audio and video streaming. Sony, the label that hosts such artists as Destiny’s Child, Michael Jackson and Tony Bennett, says it will use the services to stream audio clips and […]

Exodus Communications Monday says it is still looking for a buyer or a angel investor to save its bankrupt business. But management at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is issuing a caveat: regardless of the outcome of these discussions, it is likely that the company’s common stock will have no value. “We are weighing all […]

With its broadband Internet service already up for sale, ExciteAtHome says it may have a buyer for its Excite.com portal. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company this weekend filed a motion to sell certain narrowband assets for $10 million. The popular destination site was once valued at $7.8 billion. On the buying end of the transaction […]

San Jose, Calif.-based D2K (Data to Knowledge) Friday announced it has named Dr. Kee Ong as its new president and CEO. Dr. Ong, originally from Singapore, served as CTO at D2K. He previously had co-founded Internet e-commerce services company iVendor, founded object database vendor Versant, and was the architect of relational database products Ingres/Star at […]

The war of words between a coalition of Internet service providers and Pacific Bell and its parent company SBC Communications is turning into a question of who is in charge of DSL lines in California. The California ISP Association (CISPA) filed a response earlier this week with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) disputing SBC […]

Critical Path , which has seen its share of drama in the last year, seems to have put some of its legal problems behind it. San Francisco-based company Thursday says it has settled a class-action lawsuit filed by investors angered by an alleged company conspiracy to artificially boost its own stock price. Critical Path’s core […]

Yahoo! won a court battle Wednesday after a federal judge told the company that it did not have to abide by a request by French groups hoping to keep Nazi-related items off Yahoo!’s auction sites. In a San Jose, Calif. courtroom, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that the listings on Yahoo! Auctions are protected […]

Internet infrastructure software maker Tarantella Thursday says it has established some new partnerships with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal government contractors. The Santa Cruz, Calif.-based company, best known for its Tarantella Enterprise 3 Web enabling and application brokering software, says it signed technology deals with Logicon FDC, Harris, GTSI, Triton Services, […]

Yahoo! Tuesday says it is making some subtle changes to its Yahoo! Auctions service. In response to e-mails form sellers, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based media company says it will introduce a performance-based pricing model on its U.S. auction platform in which sellers will pay based on their success. Beginning on Nov. 20, 2001, Yahoo! Auctions […]

The pending merger between computer makers Hewlett-Packard and Compaq was dealt a blow Tuesday after the family of William Hewlett said it would not support the union. Hewlett, the co-founder and former president of the company, died earlier this year. Hewlett’s children Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor Hewlett Gimon, Mary Hewlett Jaffe and The William R. […]