Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Microsoft Looks Southward - Hoping to grab a share of Latin America's booming Internet market, Microsoft invests US$126 million in Globo Cabo, Brazil's leading cable operator. Also: Logging on while filling up at BP Amoco.... MCI WorldCom tries to clean up a mess.... FCC is a friend to AT&T.... And more. [Wired News]   Microsoft Mulls Tracking Stock - Microsoft stock goes bonkers after a report said it might issue a new stock to track its Internet biz. [Wired News]   Microsoft Mum on Belluzzo Rumor - Richard Belluzzo, who just surprised SGI by resigning as CEO, will become Redmond's new chief of Internet operations, according to The Wall Street Journal. True or not, Microsoft isn't saying. [Wired News]   Microsoft Opens Online Store - The world's biggest software company begins to pitch its wares through its own online store. Also: Intuit will sell entire Excite stake.... Drugstore.com overwhelmed by first-day visitors. [Wired News]   Microsoft Profits Up 43 Percent - The world's biggest software company says strong sales of its Windows and Office products result in another solid quarter. But Microsoft warns of a possible slowdown as customers spend available money on Y2K fixes. [Wired News]   Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Mobile - Microsoft stakes its claim in the wireless Internet market. Also: Qwest says acquisitions would save it US$14 billion.... International banking survives a Y2K test.... And more. [Wired News]   Microsoft Shares Piracy Loot - Microsoft plans to donate funds generated from antipiracy settlements and criminal penalties against software counterfeiters to education projects and technology access programs. [Wired News]   Microsoft Shuffles the Org Chart - Microsoft will align itself around five new business groups and add a hardware division. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer say the new plan isn't a road map for a post-trial breakup. Chris Stamper reports from Seattle. [Wired News]   Microsoft Speeds Hong Kong Net - Microsoft and Hongkong Telecom are co-developing a high-speed Internet service to bring commerce to PCs and TVs. [Wired News]   Microsoft Still Fighting - With settlement talks set to begin, the company moves to depose AOL's Steve Case.... Also: Samsung claims tiniest Net cell phone.... Big chill hits China-US tech trade... Europe readies Mars Express.... AT&T-BT clears a regulatory hurdle.... And more. [Wired News]   Microsoft Takes On Priceline - Expedia launches a service that lets people bid for cheap hotel rooms. Market shares of Priceline, its chief competitor, promptly plummeted. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Microsoft Trumpets Audio Player - Microsoft launches its new MP3 competitor at a glitzy event in LA. The audience hands MS Audio 4.0 a split decision. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Microsoft Won't Block E-Cards - The world's biggest software company won't include a spam filter in the next version of its email client. An online greeting card company calls it grandstanding. Chris Stamper reports from Seattle. [Wired News]   Microsoft to Grill AOL Exec - The witness list shows Redmond will focus on Netscape deal when the antitrust trial moves into its rebuttal phase. Also: Norwegian company aims to build Web's biggest search database.... Singapore ISP roils Net users.... Linux support startup gets powerful VC backing.... And more. [Wired News]   Microsoft's Audio Future - Microsoft prepares to release its own audio format.... Cisco spends $2 billion for GeoTel.... Disney's Net dilemma.... And more. [Wired News]   Microsoft's No. 3 Man - Bob Herbold took the stage Wednesday to broadcast Microsoft's triumphant new privacy policy. Who is this man? [Wired News]   Microsoft, Sony Do a Music Deal - Tunes will go online using Microsoft's new MP3 competitor. Also: USA's acquisition of Lycos is officially off.... IBM disk packs a wallop.... Peter Arnett, of CNN fame, skids to a Web landing.... And more. [Wired News]   Microsoft, the New MechWarrior - Virtual Worlds Entertainment and its universe of badass battling robots now belong to the world's largest software company. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]   Microsoft: Cheap Net for China - Gates announces the Venus operating system, which could give Chinese set-tops Net access for less than US$200. [Wired News]   Microworkz Hits a New Low - The computer maker will sell machines for US$299, with a year's free Net access through Earthlink included. That brings the PC in line with basic consumer electronics. [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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