Steve Harmon

22-Sep-98 point change % change ISDEX 102.64 4.16 4.22% NASDAQ 1,697.80 17.37 1.03% DJIA 7,879.20 -54.05 -0.68% Broadcast.com (NASDAQ:BCST) shares rise again on an upgrade by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter to “outperform.” We believe the Clinton video raised BCST’s profile on the Street as a streaming provider. More than 1 million people visited Broadcast.com […]

Despite being the leader in market share for Internet commerce software, our analysis shows Open Market (NASDAQ:OMKT) trades at half the revenue multiple of its number two, albeit marketing centric rival, Broadvision (NASDAQ:BVSN). Reason? Earnings and losses. First, Open Market’s stats: more than 2,600 businesses outsource Internet commerce to service providers relying on Open Market’s […]

21-Sep-98 point change % change ISDEX 98.48 0.53 0.54% NASDAQ 1,680.43 16.66 1.00% DJIA 7,933.25 37.59 0.48% Broadcast.com (NASDAQ:BCST) shares rise 22% to $44.25 per share on the front-and-center role it played in delivering the Clinton testimony to several Websites. Also providing a feed was InterVU (NASDAQ:ITVU), a pioneer in video-audio over the Net […]

First reader up this week writes: “Steve, what do you think of ebay’s prospects now that Yahoo/Onsale have launched a site free of any costs to post auctions?” Reply: Bottom line: I think it may cost ebay some sizzle on its planned IPO. And if it’s free from Yahoo/Onsale, then ebay’s revenue could suffer if […]

With stocks taking cues from a bad episode of Jerry Springer meets the Starr Report where the unexpected is the norm, Internet.com’s IPO Index tuned into a program of a different nature this past week. The focus is on the pure discovery channel, featuring liquidity of another sort: software wholesale e-tail network Digital River (NASDAQ:DRIV). […]

18-Sep-98 point change % change ISDEX 97.95 1.15 1.19% ISDEX price weighted 1,302.75 19.70 1.54% NASDAQ 1,663.77 17.52 1.06% DJIA 7,895.66 21.89 0.28% IDT Corp (NASDAQ:IDTC) gets an “outperform” rating from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. We would like to draw your attention to a Mecklermedia Boardwatch survey taken by Keynote Systems that shows IDT […]

Online community site Talk City, Inc. today announced that media firms NBC, The Hearst Corp., and Cox Interactive Media (CIM) will provide it with equity investments. Under terms of the agreements, Talk City will co-produce, co-sell, co-market and co-brand online community services for the partners’ select Web offerings. These services include personal homepages, live online […]

The latest WEBDEX shows Lycos (NASDAQ:LCOS) has been on a hunting spree that has pushed it from number seven to four in the top 10 Web site rankings. With the buys Lycos grew 22% in users. Yet AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo users all are valued at more than twice to three times the spidersite turned […]

17-Sep-98 point change % change ISDEX 96.80 -3.00 -3.01% ISDEX price weighted 1,283.05 -55.58 -4.15% NASDAQ 1,646.25 -43.66 -2.58% DJIA 7,873.77 -216.01 -2.67% Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP) inks a deal with telco upstart Qwest to feature voice mail, fax and other communications services, to be dubbed Netscape Contact. Terms undisclosed. But here’s one for you: why […]

16-Sep-98 point change % change ISDEX 99.80 5.46 5.79% ISDEX price weighted 1338.625 89.50 7.17% NASDAQ 1,689.91 11.76 0.70% DJIA 8,089.78 65.39 0.81% RealNetworks (NASDAQ:RNWK) finds a heavyweight of its own in the gorilla wars of the Web and PC industries. The leading streaming media software maker, whose stock tanked on anti-Microsoft comments from […]

Investors who spent the past summer guzzling performance-enhancing stock hype, hitting balls out of the park as easily as Mark McGuire, are now fans of the new Wall Street pastime: checking the field for gophers a la Caddyshack. The Dow moved sideways the past week, and NASDAQ got to first base with a 1% rise […]

A long time ago in a stock market far far away Internet IPOs sprouted like tribbles at a Star Trek convention. After August 31’s haircut, the filing frenzy subsided. So who’s in the pipeline? Infospace, Healtheon, eBay, theglobe.com, Xoom have all filed for IPOs and await the market’s muse before pricing. Many of these are […]