Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > December New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Gates: Second baby in Q2 - Microsoft's billionaire chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are expecting their second child next June, a family spokeswoman said on Friday. [News.com]   Gay advocacy groups join forces online - In a move that shows just how crucial the Net has become for political and social activists, gay and lesbian media watchdog group GLAAD will absorb Digital Queers, a grass-roots advocacy organization for both gays and lesbians in high tech and gay nonprofit organizations. [News.com]   General DataComm to cut 200 jobs - Data-networking firm General DataComm Industries said today that it would cut 200 jobs, or 14 percent of its worldwide work force, and take a charge of about $2.5 million in a bid to return to profitability. [News.com]   General Instrument up on takeover talks - Shares of General Instrument, which makes cable television equipment such as set-top boxes, rose about 11 percent yesterday on rumors that it may be in talks to sell itself or form a joint venture with a larger communications equipment maker, analysts said. [News.com]   German, French telcos shake hands - Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, the dominant phone companies in France and Germany, sealed their alliance today, after buying 2 percent stakes in each other in a transaction with a combined value of $2.8 billion. [News.com]   German, Italian firms buy U.S. company - Italy's Olivetti and Germany's Mannesmann agreed to buy U.S.-based Cellular Communications International for $1.4 billion, in a bid to expand in the Italian wireless communications market, the companies said today. [News.com]   Gingrich names five to Net group - Preparing to leave his post, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) has tied up one loose end by appointing five members to an Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce that will study Net taxation issues. [News.com]   Global TeleSystems buys Esprit Telecom - Global TeleSystems Group, a U.S. company backed by billionaire George Soros, agreed to buy rival Esprit Telecom Group for $985 million in stock and assumed debt to create a communications network spanning 19 European nations. [News.com]   Global group pushes for mediation on Y2K - Keeping in the peaceful holiday spirit, a multinational group of legal organizations have sparked a drive to get corporations to limit Y2K disputes by settling out of court through mediation. [News.com]   Gov. Wilson: Keep Net taxes simple, low - With the clock ticking down on the three-year moratorium on Internet taxes, California Gov. Pete Wilson today urged federal and state lawmakers to keep taxes on Internet transactions simple, not duplicative, and low. [News.com]   Government e-commerce data scant - Internet sales are racing ahead. Wall Street analysts are huffing and puffing to keep track. But the federal government has barely left the starting gate in providing sales data. [News.com]   Government fighting Net voting rumor - The U.S. government is launching a campaign on the Net to counter an email rumor saying the rights of black Americans to vote would expire in 2008. [News.com]   Govs offer Net-tax panel slate - The National Governors' Association and other key state and local government groups today recommended a slate of nominees for a new congressionally mandated panel on Internet taxation. [News.com]   Greet the new year on the Web - You've decided to ring in the new year with a quiet night at home but you still want a little of that new year cheer--so long as the crowds are virtual only. [News.com]   Group: Unplug nuclear plants not Y2K-ready - An environmental group yesterday submitted a petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking that nuclear power plants be shut down if they cannot prove themselves free of Year 2000 computer bugs. [News.com]   Groupe Videotron looks beyond cable - Groupe Videotron, Canada's second-largest cable television operator, said today it was set to launch a bold diversification into the integrated telecommunications services market. [News.com]   HP "reassured" on AOL-Netscape deal - Hewlett-Packard initially worried about the impact of America Online's acquisition of Netscape, HP CEO Lewis Platt said today, but was soon told that HP could continue selling computer hardware to AOL and reselling Netscape's software. [News.com]   HP counts on Web for profit revival - When Lewis Platt became Hewlett-Packard's chief executive in November 1992, the world's third-biggest computer maker was about to report a 27 percent drop in annual earnings. [News.com]   HP to appeal part of verdict - Hewlett-Packard said yesterday that it will immediately contest the $6 million portion of a jury verdict awarded to Colossal Graphics. [News.com]   HP to cut desktop prices by 20 percent - Hewlett-Packard will cut prices on desktop, notebook, and workstation computers by as much as 20 percent on Monday, matching this week's price drops by rival Compaq Computer. [News.com]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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