Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Portal Stocks Jump on AOL Bid - Speculation that AT T is willing to pay more than US$19 billion for AOL suddenly makes other portal sites look like bargains. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Portals May Not Get Giant Bids - It looked like Infoseek made out like a bandit when it announced Wednesday that Disney had acquired a stake in the Internet directory. A closer look reveals a different story. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   PowerAgent Lives On - In Court - In a US$3.5 billion lawsuit, the Internet marketing startup, which all but folded in September, charges its former partner, EDS, with extortion. [Wired News]   Praise Java and Pass the Application - Java high priests Scott McNealy and John Doerr appear at a launch party for Extensity, a new suite of business cost-management tools. The real message is their presence is familiar: Java is wonderful, Windows is not. [Wired News]   Price of Real-Time Quotes Plummets ... to Nothing - Though it may be more gimmick than service, Fox News Online has become the first site to provide real-time stock prices free of charge. It certainly won't be the last. [Wired News]   Profit Warnings Hammer Stocks - Wall Street takes a spill as Boeing and Sears say their earnings are in trouble. And what's up with all those Net-industry insiders selling off their shares? By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Profit Warnings Hammer Stocks - Wall Street takes a spill as Boeing and Sears say their earnings are in trouble. And what's up with all those Net-industry insiders selling off their shares? By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Profits in Them Thar Euros - As Europe moves toward monetary union, a San Francisco company prospects for gold by helping other businesses deal with accounting and conversion issues. [Wired News]   Pulldown Pay Dirt - Lycos, CNET, Infoseek, and AltaVista pay a total of US$60 million to be included on Microsoft Network. Some say that's a bit pricey. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Putting Kodak in the Picture - When your company name practically means "film," how do you adapt to a world of filmless cameras? [Wired News]   Quicken Jumps Off the Mac Track - Intuit has canned the Apple version of its popular personal-finance software. While the move gives Cupertino a black eye, it may not sting consumers. [Wired News]   Quickturn's Hostile Mentor - Stakes rise in the battle for control of Quickturn Design Systems, as Mentor Graphics ups its hostile bid for the company to US$14 per share. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Quietly Opening the Borders - A year after Barnes & Noble and Amazon began feverishly slicing up the online bookselling turf, Borders is still sharpening its wits to join the skirmish. Observers are baffled. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Qwest Boosts Techs - Shares of the fiber-optic telecom services provider will be included in the Nasdaq 100, forcing fund managers to snap up shares. Qwest's rise helps the Wired Index climb 2.32 to 418.66. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Qwest Defends Partners - The Denver firm wants to intervene in lawsuits against US West and Ameritech related to Qwest's long-distance marketing agreements. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Qwest Network on Schedule - Qwest's chief executive officer tells investors the company will complete its fiber-optic network on time, and that he sees strong demand for the firm's enhanced telecom services. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Qwest's Loss Lower than Expected - Qwest reports a smaller-than-expected loss on solid revenue growth from its network construction and communications services businesses. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   RCN: The Making of an Überprovider - Founded by one of the millionaires made by WorldCom's acquisition of MFS, RCN stepped into the limelight as the East Coast's biggest ISP last week. But the company's just warming up to take a bigger stage. [Wired News]   RSA, Network Associates Settle - After a long and complex legal battle dating back to 1992, the two companies resolve their differences over use of RSA code in products now owned by the security giant. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Race is on to Provide Net Calling - Just days after fiber-rich Qwest expanded its reach, announcing its acquisition of LCI Communications, ICG Communications takes its place on the track with a 5.9-cent long-distance calling rate. [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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