Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Online Investors to Access Brain Capital - A new service by Hambrecht Quist and Goldman Sachs will give smaller-fry investors access to high-power info. [Wired News]   Online Mall Buys Online Bookseller - The Books Now purchase gives the operator of the Access Galaxy Mall something it has lacked as a virtual landlord: product. [Wired News]   Online Newspapers Jilted by Advertisers - Snazzy Web sites haven't impressed advertisers, and revenues aren't high enough for newspapers to defend themsleves against incursions by Microsoft and others. [Wired News]   Online Services Settle with FTC - AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy agree to better inform their customers that all those free trial offers turn into real debits. The Microsoft Network, while not part of the probe, had better watch it, too. [Wired News]   Online Services Step Up Fight Against Spam - But most agree that the unpopular practice is pretty much here to stay, despite legal wins over junk emailers. [Wired News]   Online Traders Fight for Customer Custody - With a beefy 30 percent of the discount brokerage business, online-trading firms are taking the market by storm - and preparing to do some serious raining on each other's parades. [Wired News]   Online Travel Industry Hit by Turbulence - Airlines are giving online travel agents half the commission that their meatspace counterparts receive. Guess who's pocketing the difference. [Wired News]   Oracle Breaks Nasdaq Record - In a Bad Way - The company's stock fell nearly 30 percent on heavy trading following a gloomy earnings report. Oracle blames weak Asian markets for its poor showing, but analysts say, worse than that, its database sales growth seems to have dried up. [Wired News]   Oracle Helps Customize CNN's Web Site - CNN Interactive adds a feature that gives users a sophisticated way to filter news stories. [Wired News]   Oracle Nabs NC Deal With 1-800-FLOWERS - Its first shipment of 2,000 network computers pushes the company out front, and puts networked computing to the test. [Wired News]   Oracle Stretching to Reach Consumer Market - Larry Ellison's forays into big-time media this week indicate a revival of his company's drive to succeed in the consumer marketplace. [Wired News]   Oracle Ups Ante on TV Web Access - The Network Computer division's upcoming technology promises to make it easier to follow and speculate on Melrose melodrama both on the couch and online. [Wired News]   Ovitzes of Web Have Pitch in Hand, Buck in Mind - The founders of the Digital Talent Agency want to put together big ad agencies with a cast of small-outfit talent. [Wired News]   PBS Seeks New Revenue in Web Ads - Ad-style banners are PBS' answer to dwindling public funds. [Wired News]   PC Makers Gird for Digital-TV Standards Battle - They're going to a broadcasting conference to call for the PC, and not the TV, to be the bedrock for next-generation digital television. [Wired News]   PC Meter Renames, Remakes Itself - Taking the Media Metrix moniker, the company is trying to end complaints about how it calculates its Net ratings statistics. [Wired News]   PC-TV War Waged over Couch, Mouse Potatoes - Microsoft, Intel, and Compaq jury-rig digital television standards to pave the way for - surprise! - computers. But broadcasters aren't in the mood to surrender. [Wired News]   PGP Pretty Good on Privacy of Layoff Details - Privacy technology maven PGP let go of a few workers as part of move to become a security specialist to the Fortune 500. [Wired News]   PGP Splashes Crypto Licenses - The firm touts its shepherding of more than 100 companies through the Commerce Department licensing process. But its corporate market play turns out to be little more than a clever game of catch-up. [Wired News]   PGP Zooms into Corporate Security - The acquisition of the Toronto-based software company Zoomit will help PGP position itself as a major provider of enterprise-wide security software. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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