Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > December New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   SAP maps a user-friendly plan - SAP is baring its soul to its customers. [News.com]   SAP takes over Digital research unit - Software maker SAP announced that it is taking over a research center in Germany with 20 employees that previously belonged to Digital Equipment. [News.com]   SBC shareholders approve Ameritech purchase - SBC Communications shareholders approved the No. 2 U.S. local phone company's proposed $79.06 billion purchase of No. 5 Ameritech, moving the companies one step closer to completing the combination. [News.com]   SEC searches for improved Y2K disclosure - U.S. regulators have heightened their scrutiny into the information that companies provide to investors about progress in tackling so-called millennium computer bug problems, a top official said yesterday. [News.com]   Safeway, IBM offer remote shopping service - British food retailer Safeway today launched a personalized remote shopping service developed jointly with computer giant IBM. [News.com]   San Francisco blackout snarls Web - One of the worst blackouts in the region's history paralyzed much of the San Francisco Bay Area today, knocking out power to nearly 1 million people and disrupting online operations in the process. [News.com]   Satellites get a little help from Congress - Hughes Electronics's DirecTV, EchoStar Communications, and other satellite broadcasters will get help from Congress next year in their battle with cable rivals for the $43.6-billion-a-year subscription television business, analysts said. [News.com]   Schwab expands into Canada - Charles Schwab agreed to buy Priority Brokerage and Porthmeor Securities, two Canadian brokers, expanding the biggest U.S. brokerage into Canada. [News.com]   Schwab market cap passes Merrill Lynch - Shares of the biggest online broker Charles Schwab jumped today, pushing the firm's market capitalization ahead of Merrill Lynch on expectations the Internet would replace brokers as the way to buy and sell securities, analysts said. [News.com]   Schwab pulls Net firms from online trading - Charles Schwab, the biggest online brokerage, has notified customers on its Web site that they may not place trades online for four recent or pending initial public offerings, three of them Internet stocks. [News.com]   Scientific-Atlanta striking set-top deals - A key component in Scientific-Atlanta's push to rev up its TV set-top computer business includes a deal with Intertainer, the well-funded company that is developing ways to meld the Internet and television experiences. [News.com]   Scripps invests in BuildingBlocks - Scripps Ventures, the venture capital arm of media company E.W. Scripps, will invest $3.5 million in BuildingBlocks Interactive, publisher of an online home-design shopping guide. The company has now raised a total of $4.25 million from Scripps, Seavest private Investments, Camelot Capital, and Robert Lessin, chairman of Wit Capital. BuildingBlocks offers HomePortfolio, which links shoppers to high-end home-design products. [News.com]   Seagram takes over PolyGram - Seagram has become the world's biggest music company as it completed its takeover of PolyGram and announced a reorganization expected to lead to thousands of job cuts and the departure of well-known executives and recording artists. [News.com]   Security firms merge, pass VeriSign - With an eye on the North American market, British network-security firm Zergo Holdings is acquiring Ireland's Baltimore Technologies, creating a digital-certificate company with more revenue than VeriSign. [News.com]   Sema wins Olympic Games contract - Sema Group, Europe's second-largest computer services company, said it won a contract worth about $220 million to run the computer systems for the four Olympic Games between 2002 and 2008, replacing IBM. [News.com]   Sendmail ships first products - The first line of commercial products from Internet pioneer Eric Allman's new private venture began shipping today. [News.com]   Server shipments up, revenues down - Server vendors got a dose of good news-bad news in the third quarter of 1998, according to a new report. [News.com]   Services firms get mixed reviews - The new year will bring big expectations for service and consulting rivals EDS and Computer Sciences. [News.com]   Services to fight bug on the desktop - Hewlett-Packard announced an alliance today with PC management software maker ClickNet to provide a single package for Year 2000 desktop compliance assessment and repair. [News.com]   Set-top giants eye home networking - Two of the TV set-top computer industry's biggest companies are trying to lay the groundwork for their technologies to hold court at the center of future digital living. [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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