Thor Olavsrud

Juno Online Services Inc. Wednesday outsourced management of its Juno Shopping Channel to WizShop Inc. with the goal of improving Juno users’ online shopping experiences. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will share revenues generated by purchases. WizShop will manage the content and tools on the channel, and expand it through direct […]

In a surprise move Tuesday, BulkRegister.com, the fourth largest domain registrar with 6.7 percent of the market as of Dec. 31, 2000, fired Chief Executive Officer Tony Keyes and 23 of its 33 employees. Robert Judge, a co-founder and member of the board of BulkRegister, said most of the positions were in executive management as […]

Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. Tuesday laid off 400 of its 11,000 employees, about 3 percent of its staff, and at the same time warned that it will have difficulty meeting first quarter earnings estimates in light of current market conditions. However, the company said the two moves were unrelated, explaining that the staff cuts were […]

Napster may be facing the music in court, but the peer-to-peer (P2P) technology movement it spawned is taking the networking sector by storm, and even networking giant Sun Microsystems Inc. is sitting up and taking notice. Sun Tuesday declared its intentions in that space, announcing it would acquire Burlingame, Calif.-based InfraSearch Inc. — a provider […]

In the past year, IBM Corp. has opened its arms to Linux, even vowing to invest more than $1 billion in Linux over the next year and an additional $300 million in Linux services over the next three years. Now venerable Big Blue is putting its advertising dollars into the mix in the surest indication […]

Analysts Friday took Oracle Corp.’s Thursday evening third quarter profits warning as a troubling sign with implications for the entire software sector. Oracle Thursday cited trouble closing already negotiated deals at the end of the quarter as a reason for the expected shortfall. The company said it anticipates third quarter earnings of 10 cents per […]

Microsoft Corp. Friday raised the curtain on two XML tools for application developers intended to speed the deployment of cross-platform analytical database solutions. The Redmond, Wash.-based software juggernaut released a beta version of the XML for Analysis software development kit and also released the XML for Analysis protocol specification, designed to allow the transfer of […]

Oracle Corp., the world’s second-largest software company, Thursday warned profits for the third quarter — which ended Wednesday — would miss Wall Street’s expectations by 2 cents per share. The company cited lackluster U.S. sales of its flagship database software as the reason for the lower-than-expected profits. “License growth was strong in the first two […]

Though the public beta of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 6.0 was not released to the Web Wednesday as some rumors had suggested, a beta version will be made available to the public this quarter, according to a Microsoft spokesperson. The rumors were a result of notes — supposedly originating inside Microsoft — posted to the […]

ERP solutions provider Kana Communications Inc. Wednesday laid off 220 employees, about 20 percent of its workforce, as part of an effort to slash expenses by $30 to $40 million annually. The cuts came from all Kana’s departments. The company said it is planning other steps as well. Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Jay Wood […]

Ariba Inc. is looking to tap a new market that it sees emerging in the B2B space that will automate and streamline enterprises’ external processes and interactions with trading partners. Ariba Wednesday raised the curtain on its new Value Chain Management (VCM) solutions, which it said would unlock the “largest untapped source of value in […]

Striving to capture the pricing advantage in an increasingly competitive market, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday raised the curtain on a UNIX workstation priced at less than $1,000 — far and away the cheapest ever put on the market. The basic configuration of the Sun Blade 100 will sell for $995, though customers will have to […]