Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Qwest Hits Jackpot - The Denver-based long-distance carrier wins a US$1 billion contract to upgrade the Treasury Department's communications system. Left in the dust: Sprint, AT&T, and GTE. [Wired News]   Qwest Seeks US West, Frontier - The Internet communications company squelches Global Crossing's aspirations to become a major telecom player by trumping its bids for the two phone companies. [Wired News]   Qwest Sweetens Bid for Telcos - The fourth-largest long-distance company in the United States raises its offering price for local phone company US West and fiber-optic network builder Frontier. [Wired News]   RIAA May Sue Lycos over MP3 - The Recording Industry Association of America said it may take legal action against the search engine that links to MP3 files. [Wired News]   Rally Sputters, Stocks Mixed - Wall Street cools its heels following Monday's run into the record books. Investors decide to pocket some cash, and cast a wary eye toward Yugoslavia. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Rate Worries Slam Tech Stocks - It's getting a little tiresome, but no amount of Prozac is able to deter investors from fretting about a hike in interest rates. Share prices reflect the level of anxiety. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Rates Steady, Dow Retreats - Surprising no one, the Fed opts to leave interest rates as they are. But blue-chip stocks lose ground while shaking off the effects of their 10K run. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Rates Unchanged, Stocks Surge - As expected, the Fed opts to leave interest rates alone -- for now. Investors breathe a sigh of relief and promptly go on a shopping spree. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Reading Reuters News? Pay Up - Reuters, the world's biggest news agency, turns to Reciprocal for software to track and bill people who use its products. [Wired News]   Real's Latest Does Slide Shows - Free, downloadable software will also come bundled with Adobe's Photoshop products. Also: Sought-after Frontier warns of lower profits.... Xerox looks to go commercial with electronic paper.... BT, AT T deal backed by Justice Department.... And more. [Wired News]   RealMedia on Parade - At its developers convention in San Francisco, RealNetworks draws a road map for the delivery of integrated, interactive media over the Web. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Reality Check for RealityMan - RealityMan, one of the two developers of the Nintendo 64 emulator that had Nintendo threatening to sue, says he's tired of the hassles and is calling it quits. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Record Stores Keep on Spinning - What will music distributors do when consumers get all their music off the Net? Plenty, they say, but don't hold your breath until then. Chris Oakes reports from New York. [Wired News]   Red Hat Linux on Dell PCs - Dell buys a stake in Red Hat, agrees to install Linux on some of its PCs, and sells a bunch of Linux boxes to a big corporate customer. Is this the beginning of the end for Windows? [Wired News]   Red Hat Offers Street Salve - Shares of the leading bundler of the Linux OS soared shortly after its Wall Street debut on Wednesday, proving that investors still like tech IPOs. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Red Hat Stock Soars High, Higher - Shares of the Linux OS distributor surged into the rarified atmosphere analysts call "nosebleed territory" a day after the company's IPO. Is the summit in sight? [Wired News]   Red Hat: Still Soaring - Shares of the Linux distributor continued to climb three days after its IPO. Also: Sony says it will sell tunes online by year's end, but it doesn't say how.... A portal for black users.... Lucent will buy Xedia. [Wired News]   Red, Hot, and Hyperlinked - With a bilingual version of WebTV and the possibility of building an ambitious fiber-optic link, the island of Cuba may soon be fully connected. By Vito Echevarria. [Wired News]   Relieved Stock Markets Surge - The Federal Reserve raises interest rates -- normally, a bad thing for stocks. It also says it likely won't raise them again for a while -- a very good thing for stocks. Wall Street celebrated. [Wired News]   Reorganization in Redmond - Microsoft President Steve Ballmer is planning a major corporate shift.... Also: The software superpower considers an alliance with British wireless company Orange.... Bill Gates gives US$3.3 billion to charity. [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

About   Help   Content Filter   Terms   Privacy Policy © 2018 whatUseek