Ryan Naraine

NEW YORK — The dogfight in the handheld computing space extended to the halls of the Javits Center Tuesday with a slew of corporate partnership announcements from Palm Inc. and the release of a new Web browser from Handspring Inc. While the two competitors battled for attention, it was Palm’s CEO Carl Yankowski who stole […]

With momentum building towards the rollout of new Top Level Domains (TLD) later this year, New York-based Register.com on Tuesday announced a deal to power URL registrations in Brazil. Register.com , which will benefit from the registries for two of the seven new TLDs, said it would partner with Registro Brazil to offer full-service domain […]

Web telephony firm Net2Phone, Inc. has discontinued operations at its Aplio subsidiary, a move that will cost the company $53 million in asset write-offs. The shutdown of the Aplio subsidiary comes less than a year after Net2Phone acquired the Paris-based company. Last July, Net2Phone shelled out an undisclosed amount of cash and stock to buy […]

New York Times Digital (NYTD) honcho Martin Nisenholtz is among a group of big-name industry executives behind the launch of a new trade group to represent the interests of Web content creators, according to people familiar with the plans. Sources say Nisenholtz is spearheading the launch of the trade group, which will be known as […]

Voice-over Internet Protocol (Vo-IP) pioneer Net2Phone, Inc. on Friday announced a $20 million licensing deal with multimedia and communications firm Liberty Media Group. Under terms of the five-year pact, the Englewood, CO.-based Liberty Media would pay $20 million to use Net2Phone’s Vo-IP technology to resell broadband telephone service to its international cable affiliates. Sarah Hofstetter, […]

One day after announcing a significant investment from data routing giant Cisco Systems, Net2Phone’s ADIR VoIP Technologies said it would acquire competitor NetSpeak Corp. in a stock deal valued at $48 million. ADIR VoIP, which was spun off from New Jersey-based Net2Phone Inc. nine months ago to sell software for telcos and Web-based voice networks, […]

Looking to add bells and whistles to its direct marketing campaigns, New York-based Bigfoot Interactive said it would partner with streaming video play Vendario. Bigfoot Interactive, which runs e-mail campaigns for clients like Unilever and MCI Worldcom, said the deal would allow the addition of Vendario’s streaming video application within targeted e-mail marketing programs. By […]

With competition in the Web-based telephony sector shrinking, Net2Phone Inc. moved swiftly Wednesday to conquer the market, rolling out a new service that allows phone calls over the Internet from regular telephones. One day after competitor PhoneFree.com announced it was abandoning the PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone telephony business, Net2Phone launched the VoiceLine service to let consumers […]

With the online advertising market in the dumps, New York-based PhoneFree.com Inc. has abandoned the Internet telephony space. In a dramatic move, the company, which built a brand by burning telephone bills on TV, will no longer be offering PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calls from its Web site. The five-year-old PhoneFree has changed its name to […]

New York-based software start-up ActiveBuddy has been given the go-ahead by the three major trading exchanges to deliver real-time stock quotes via interactive “bots” on instant messaging platforms. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), The NASDAQ Stock Market and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) have all granted permission for the distribution of trading information, clearing […]

Four months after closing its mega merger, AOL Time Warner Inc. announced Tuesday it would raise the price for its monthly unlimited use service by $1.95, a move that affects 29 million subscribers. AOL/Time Warner said the 9 percent price hike would push the unlimited usage plan to $23.90 a month and would be implemented […]

The complicated merger deal between rival networks iVillage Inc. and Women.com Networks Inc. could be derailed if iVillage’s stock is booted from the Nasdaq exchange, the company warned in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The New York-based iVillage said one condition of the merger is that its shares must be listed […]