Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Lycos, Diller Properties Merge - The companies announce a deal that will combine the Web portal with Barry Dillers Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, and Internet Shopping Network/First Auction. [Wired News]   Lycos, USA Call Off Merger - After months of pressure from shareholders, Lycos and USA Networks officially abandon their plans to create an online shopping portal. [Wired News]   Lycos: 'We'll Stay Independent' - Lycos' chief executive says his company will stay independent, even though speculation is rampant that the portal will have to partner with a bigger company. [Wired News]   MBAs Ditch Wall Street - B-school grads are flocking to Web start-ups in record numbers. Some aren't even waiting to graduate before joining the digital workforce. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   MCI Back in the Internet Game - MCI WorldCom sold its Internet business four short months ago to make regulators happy. Now it plans to launch a new consumer service. [Wired News]   MCI Eyes Aussie Telco - Less than a week after saying they won't go into wireless, MCI is apparently in negotiations to acquire Australian wireless carrier AAPT. [Wired News]   MCI Returns to Net - Less than a year after the regulators forced the telco to sell off its Internet assets over antitrust concerns, the company has two words to say: "We're back." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   MCI Staying Out of Wireless - MCI WorldCom's CEO says that the company isn't planning to enter the wireless phone business in a big way. He doesn't rule it out, though. [Wired News]   MCI Won't Make Bid on AirTouch - The telecom says it thought about making a bid for AirTouch, but decided against it. There are other fish to fry. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   MCI WorldCom, Nextel in Talks - Will MCI WorldCom make the wireless plunge? Sources say a deal is far from certain. Also: Malone invests billions in Murdoch's News Corp.... DVD still stomping Divx.... Boeing's Delta 3 on hold.... The red phone booth lives.... And Intel price cuts are on the way. [Wired News]   MCI Worldcom's Network Nightmare - Business operations were especially hard hit by MCI WorldCom's network outage, which has lasted more than a week and sent some companies scurrying to other service providers. [Wired News]   MCI, Sprint Discuss Merger - It's a bid to rival AT T, matching the Nos. 2 and 3 long-distance telephone companies. Meanwhile, Sprint's talks with Deutsche Telekom have gone cold. [Wired News]   MIT Dreams of Jini Alternative - A new research facility at the Cambridge, Massachusetts university is working to figure out how to get tomorrow's smart devices to talk to each other. [Wired News]   MIT's Geek Sweepstakes - Student entrepreneurs polish their business plans as MIT's $50K Entrepreneurship Competition heads into the home stretch. Is the next Firefly among them? [Wired News]   MP3 Audio Books for the Rio - Audible will bring spoken content to Diamond's portable MP3 player. Also: Quickturn again spurns Mentor's offer... Replay scores Paul Allen's dough. [Wired News]   MP3 Cutting into Music Sales? - A decline in music purchases last year by 15- to 24-year-olds has the music industry "puzzled." One clue may be MP3 and the "free entertainment center" that is the Internet. [Wired News]   MP3 Squabble Settles Amicably - PlayMedia, which accused Nullsoft and MP3.com of copyright infringement, drops its lawsuit as the companies settle their differences and conclude new business arrangements. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   MP3.com Cashes In on the Hype - The stock market says MP3.com, a tiny San Diego company with less than $1 million in revenue, is worth $7 billion. Analysts wonder why. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   MP3.com Plans IPO - The online distributor of the controversial music format wants to raise US$115 million by going public. [Wired News]   MP3.com Raises IPO Goals - The online music site jacks up its initial public offering price, and now plans to raise up to US$200 million. Also: CDNow uses Microsoft's Media Audio for music downloads. [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 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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