Steve Harmon

N2K Inc.’s online music store Music Boulevard was named the exclusive music seller on Infoseek Corp.’s site, the companies announced today. Although financial terms were not disclosed, the companies said in a joint statement that today’s news builds on a long-term marketing agreement that includes advertising and transaction-related revenue. Under terms of the alliance, Music […]

Enterprise network security provider Network Associates, Inc. filed a patent infringement suit today against rival company Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) in Federal District Court in California. Under the suit, Network Associates is seeking unspecified monetary damages and injunctive relief to stop ISS from making and distributing RealSecure, claiming the company violates U.S. patent No. […]

If our top 10 stocks to watch this year comprised a baseball team it would have hit nine triples and a double bringing in multiple home runs for investors. As a group these stocks gained 173% since December 31 when we first put them in the spotlight. The only “portal” listed here, Infoseek (NASDAQ:SEEK), originally […]

Lycos, Inc. becomes the latest Internet company to follow the recent stock split trend as the portal provider announced plans today for a 2-for-1 stock split to shareholders payable in August. The company’s Board of Directors approved the split which will be presented as a stock dividend of one Lycos (NASDAQ:LCOS) share for each share […]

Egghead.com, Inc. today reported substantial revenue growth and a sharp increase in registered bidders for its Surplusauction Internet auction site after its first full year of operation. In the fiscal quarter ending June 27, 1998, which marked Surplus Auction’s first anniversary, it recorded revenues of $13.7 million compared with $7.0 million in the preceding quarter, […]

First reader up this week poses this question: “I was thinking about the Y2K Time Bomb. Internet users are to increase from present 30 million to 100 million Year 2000 – but what then? If we lose the ability to make phone calls due to installed date-sensitive computer systems what will this do to Internet […]

Zapata Corp., the Internet newcomer with an interest in a fish processing company, today announced that its ZAP Corp. Internet unit will either purchase or invest in 21 Web sites and e-commerce entities, and will be split off to form a separate unit. Zapata said in a statement today it plans to divide its company […]

Digital certificate provider VeriSign, Inc. said today it acquired privately-held Internet security provider SecureIT, Inc. VeriSign said the new addition is aimed at expanding its presence in the enterprise security market where it will provide digital certificate and PKI solutions and services for secure intranet, extranet, and electronic commerce applications. SecureIT services include architectural consulting, […]

In a move aimed at improving navigation and enabling easier access to content, Internet community site operator GeoCities today announced a series of site enhancements including a new user interface and topic pages. In addition, each GeoCities Homesteader will now receive 11 megabytes of disk space instead of 6 megabytes, and GeoPlus premium service members […]

In the mountain climbing world there’s a group of people who do nothing but climb as many peaks as they can in a term they dub “bagging peaks” or reaching the summit. On Wall Street there’s a similar group wandering in the frosty ether space who thought they saw the summit but now have been […]

To All Concerned: The purpose of this letter is to outline Media Metrix guidelines on reporting of ad sales ‘networks.’ Secondarily, we want to clarify any misunderstandings which may have occurred in the marketplace by the presentation of data. The Web/online community has evolved in the last few years, and the significance of ad sales […]

The future of the Internet domain name system may be a volatile subject in many quarters, but by all accounts, last week’s widely anticipated Global Incorporation Alliance Workshop (GIAW) conference was anything but rancorous. Craig Simon of the University of Miami School of International Studies said the crowd of nearly 200, “was more broadly based […]