Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   $40 Million Pours into Inktomi - By the end of the day, a flood of investors in the search-engine tech company doubles its per-share price to $36. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]   'Free' Long-Distance Calls - A Florida company plans to offer long-distance telephone service at no charge. The catch? You have to sit through advertisements before your call connects. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   'Pokey' Wins His Domain Name - A 12-year-old boy battling with the company that owns the Gumby and Pokey trademarks was saved after the man who first brought those flexible creatures to life stepped in to save pokey.org. [Wired News]   'Put a Live Face on the Dead Web' - A new crop of software aims to make the Web truly interactive. It lets customer service reps guide shoppers through sites in real time and answer questions via chat. As a new player unveils its stuff on Monday, analysts say the field is bound to grow like wildfire. [Wired News]   3Com Down, But Not Out - Its earnings fall from a year ago, but not as much as analysts expected. Good news, since the results come during the firm's weak summer months. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   3Com Earnings Rise - The network equipment-maker's fourth-quarter profit rose 52 percent, matching Wall Street estimates. But the company warned of flat sales in the first quarter. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   3Com Hires a COO - The networking equipment maker creates a new post and hires a former DEC exec to help out the company's CEO. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   3Com May Sue Microsoft over Product Name - The makers of the PalmPilot personal information manager say the name Microsoft has chosen for its forthcoming handheld PC device is a little too close to its own. [Wired News]   3Com, Siemens Muscle Up - The data communications company teams up with the German giant to make a grab for a healthy chunk of the digital voice-communications market. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]   @Home Feels At Home With TCI - In swinging a deal to become the email provider for users of the cable company's 11 million set-top boxes, @Home hopes to gain entree for its high-speed data service. [Wired News]   @Home Loss Narrows - The firm's loss is more than what Wall Street expected. But revenues and subscribers increased in line with estimates. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   @Home Stakes Out Its Turf - Its traffic may be teeny-weeny compared to that of Web directories like Yahoo, but the advantage of fat pipes gives the Net-access-over-cable company a foothold in the current competition for marketing dollars. [Wired News]   A Financier, the Net, the Hyping of a Penny Stock - Little is known about a small company called Zulu-Tek - except that it has managed the purchase of Net advertising firm Softbank Interactive Marketing and suggests, ever so carefully, that it might be a hot stock buy. Is it a scheme? [Wired News]   A Fish Out of Water - Zapata, the fish-processing company, is expanding its line of business, announcing plans to buy or invest in 21 other Web companies. It's not joking, and Wall Street isn't laughing. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]   A Fistful of Deals for RealNetworks - The leader in streaming media software danced into the National Association of Broadcasters' convention this week waving a sheaf of contracts with major media companies. The intended message is clear: Streaming is here. [Wired News]   A Nasdaq for Bandwidth - The bit-haggling found on the Web today could become the economic exchange of tomorrow. [Wired News]   A New Tool Chest for RealNetworks - By acquiring Vivo Software, the leader in streaming video hopes to fortify its clout with content providers. [Wired News]   A Portal in Every Pot - Netcenter wants businesses to use its new software to create personal portals when building their Web prescence. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   A Set-Top Win for Network Computer - Providing software to the set-top boxes Cable & Wireless will deploy in 50 countries is a nice feather for the Oracle subsidiary to tuck in its cap. [Wired News]   ACLU Dream Job: Use the Net to Save the Government - Make friends. Organize activists. Protect US civil liberties. Jam your congressman's fax machine. [Wired News]     [ 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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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