Steve Harmon

President Clinton says “no new Internet taxes” and the value of most Internet stocks broke new ceilings for highs. This translated into a value per user in our latest WEBDEX tally of $66.02 on average, while Yahoo! led the eyeball and wallet race at $115.62 per user. The disparity between the top and bottom illustrates […]

The hottest comments coming from President Clinton the other day had nothing to do with Zippergate and everything to do with his support of not taxing commerce on the Internet. Despite a slew of state governors looking to slice and dice Internet commerce for themselves via another state-backed grab for taxpayer dollars, Clinton said that […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   04-Mar-98 % change point change ISDEX 136.33 1.47% 1.97 ISDEX Price Weighted Composite 1,042.28 0.59% 6.13 NASDAQ 1,759.70 0.15% 2.56 DJIA 8,539.24 -0.53% -45.59 N2K (NASDAQ:NTKI) files a secondary public offer of 3.8 million shares, 2 million of which are from the company and the remainder from selling stockholders. […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   03-Mar-98 % change point change ISDEX 134.36 0.19% 0.26 ISDEX Price Weighted Composite 1,036.16 0.09% 0.94 NASDAQ 1,757.14 -0.08% -1.40 DJIA 8,584.83 0.40% 34.38 Infoseek (NASDAQ:SEEK) signs a multi-million dollar agreement with RealSelect (REALTOR.com) to allow its users a way to search and find homes on Infoseek’s search site. […]

At a time when Internet service provider (ISP) stocks are a hit and miss bunch with investors, here comes an initial public offering from Verio. Is it late to the prom or early to the next dance? Since its inception in March 1996, Verio’s goal was to become the leading full-service national provider of Internet […]

Competition can be good for the consumer, and nowhere is this more evident than in the brokerage fees charged by online stock trading firms. The average commission for the 10 leading online brokerage firms had dropped from nearly $53 in early 1996 to about $32 the middle of last year, about a 40% decline, according […]

Information Resource Engineering Inc., a provider of encryption-based Internet security systems, posted a net loss of $0.5 million for the fourth quarter of 1997 on revenues of $5.1 million, up 56% from $3.2 million for the fourth quarter of 1996. The net loss for the quarter was $0.09 per share on a diluted basis, compared […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot CMG Info (NASDAQ:CMGI) gets a favorable piece in the Wall Street Journal, which asked us our thoughts on CMGI, basically the same thought we’ve had for three years on CMGI–it’s a a public venture firm full of off-balance sheet Internet investments, the parts worth potentially more than the whole. The […]

First reader up this week: “I just read the press release from PSINet (NASADQ:PSIX) concerning the agreement to provide businesses with Wireless Internet Access in Southwest Florida. It seems that PSIX believes there is a lot of potential for wireless Internet services, especially for businesses in large metropolitan areas. I would like to know your […]

If Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL), which has the world’s largest installed base of networked users at 70 million, had half the marketing finesse of startup Marimba, a company with few users but plenty of media exposure, then perhaps the stock would take its place among the leaders in the software space. Of course sales and earnings growth […]

A month ago, values per user hovered north of $100, now the average sits at about $64. That’s because there’s an inherent conflict in using words such as “user” to describe a visitor to a Web site. No more than someone looking at a menu at Dennys is not a restaurant “user,” but merely someone […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   26-Feb-98 % change point change ISDEX Geometric Average 131.26 1.48% 1.91 ISDEX Price Weighted Composite 1,014.88 2.60% 25.69 NASDAQ 1,777.11 0.60% 10.64 DJIA 8,490.67 0.39% 32.89 AOL (NYSE:AOL) gets Bloomberg to provide news on the online service, filling a void left by Dow Jones which left AOL when it […]