Ryan Naraine

Burdened with acquisition-related “redundancies” and looking to put a cap on expenses, Web telephone company Net2Phone, Inc. has slashed about 5 percent of its workforce. A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs were implemented this week to eliminate redundancies from Net2Phone’s recent acquisition of telephony device manufacturer Aplio and Mail.com’s e-mail subsidiary. The spokesperson said the […]

As it looks for ways to stem its widening losses, Web and application hosting firm Globix Corp. announced a top-level management shakeup with Peter Herzig replacing Marc Bell in the CEO chair. Additionally, Globix said vice president Marc Jaffe would move up to fill Herzig’s COO slot. Bell retains his post as chairman of the […]

Convinced the B2B market is ripe for its BroadSpeed Voice-over-DSL (VoDSL), network-based communications firm Broadview Networks on Monday announced the full-scale rollout of the service in the New York metropolitan area. Broadview Networks, which has headquarters in Long Island City, said the VoDSL service would be marketed to small and medium sized businesses, offering multiple […]

The falloff in online display advertising, particularly from dot-com and technology clients, has hurt the pockets of New York Times Digital (NYTD) , the gray lady’s interactive arm. The company said revenues from the NYTD operations fell off by more than $2 million in the second quarter, a 12 percent drop from the same year-ago […]

Web telephony firm Net2Phone Inc. has finalized a deal to acquire Web-based events and notification service iPing, Inc. Net2Phone plans to integrate iPing’s proprietary time- and event-triggered notification service into its Voice Hosting subsidiary, which sells B2B customer service applications. A company spokesperson said Net2Phone traded its equity stake in Philadelphia-based eCal to acquire all […]

Convinced the market is ripe for text messaging as a wireless promotion tool, some of the biggest names in the music business have inked deals with New York-based Upoc to create content-delivery platforms. Upoc, which builds software that allows the delivery of text and audio messages across competing wireless carriers, announced deals with Capitol Records, […]

Latin-focused Web portal StarMedia Networks has renewed its multi-million dollar marketing and branding pact with French beauty products giant L’Oreal. The New York-based StarMedia said the original deal, first struck in March 2000, would be expanded to roll out co-branded Web sites in Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The reworked deal runs […]

Jeff Dachis and Craig Kanarick have severed all ties with Razorfish Inc. , the interactive services agency they co-founded six years ago. The childhood buddies had resigned from senior management posts at the struggling i-shop in early May but remained as co-chairmen of the company’s board of directors. However, in a regulatory filing, the New […]

Pop-ups. Pop-unders. Page takeovers. And now, Hugh Hefner. As Web publishers tinker with fresh advertising gimmicks, New York-based Playboy.com is using the untiring swinger to plug the Jack Daniel’s whiskey brand. Before getting to view content, visitors to the Playboy.com must sit through a 15-second Flash-enabled advertisement with an animated Hefner touting the virtues of […]

Silicon Alley financial services ASP Multex.com has landed a multi-year deal to host the delivery of equity and fixed income research from Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). While specifics of the deal were not disclosed, Multex described the deal as a multi-million dollar agreement. Multex.com, which has turned its hybrid model of ASP, technology and […]

In partnership with two overseas-based wireless firms, Silicon Alley software start-up Odigo Inc. plans to jump into the red-hot Short Message Service (SMS) space. Odigo, which builds IM software for corporate clients and promotes IM interoperability among competing platforms, has inked a three-way deal with Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. and Italy’s Wireless Solutions to develop and […]

Twelve of the biggest names in the Web publishing industry have launched the Online Publishers Association (OPA), an advocacy group to deal with the advertising community, the media, the government and the public. As earlier reported, the OPA was formed to act as a policy and advocacy group for content creators who do business on […]