Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Earnings Outlook Hammers Stocks - A disappointingly small interest-rate cut and more warnings about weaker-than-expected earnings punish US stocks. The Wired Index drops 17.99 to 377.08. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   EarthLink Reels In Its Losses - The rapid-growth ISP reports record revenues and its seventh consecutive quarter of shrinking losses. The company sees black by early next year. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]   EarthLink, Sprint Combine Online Services - In a US$180 million deal, the long-distance phone company merges its 130,000 online customers into the data-networking firm and takes a 30 percent stake in the enterprise. [Wired News]   Easy Net Access for Dell - The No. 2 computer maker lines up deals with Excite, AT T, and SBC Communications to make connections to the Internet easier, which creates another incentive to buy a Dell box. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Ebilling Business Booms - Where Microsoft goes, acceptance follows -- and so it is with an emerging electronic billing and payment system that drops an online bill at your bank, and leaves your physical mailbox alone. [Wired News]   Entrust IPO Soars - A sign of investor faith in the prospects of Net security software vendors, Entrust stock shot up as much as 50 percent on the first day of trading. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Ericsson Begins Buying Spree - The Swedish telecom-equipment maker hints that some big acquisition may be in the offing to keep up with Internet technology. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Esther Dyson in Poland - In Central Europe, Esther Dyson manages minor investments in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but she's invested most heavily in Poland. [Wired News]   Etrade Brokers Its Own Deal - The online brokerage says Japan's Softbank will buy 15.6 million of its shares for US$400 million. Analysts say it's a sweet deal for both companies. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Euro Net Users: Aux Barricades! - Outraged by the huge fees telephone companies charge, European Internet surfers are staging online strikes to demand cheaper access. Heather McCabe reports from Paris. [Wired News]   Everybody Learn Cisco - Cisco Systems has launched an ambitious program to teach teachers and students computer networking, and help solve the IT worker crunch to boot. [Wired News]   Eword: After-School Adventure - Empowered by a Web-authoring app called Cocoa, Gregory Miller has latched onto a cool new extra-curricular activity: he's CEO of his own software company. [Wired News]   Eword: The Eyeball Index - A recent report by Mediamark Research provides a new perspective on how new media audiences stack up against old media. [Wired News]   Ex-Apple Exec Named Exodus CEO - More than a year after her departure from the computer manufacturer, former chief technologist Ellen Hancock has a new job. [Wired News]   Excite Announces Stock Split - The No. 2 Internet search engine price per share leaps after its board of directors approves a two-for-one stock split. [Wired News]   Excite Banking on Targeted Ad Strategy - The company paid US$89 million for MatchLogic, a "one-to-one" ad services firm that finely targets consumers based on their interests. [Wired News]   Excite Buys Throw for $28.2M - Excite says the purchase of the Internet software company is part of its "community" strategy, to be unveiled later this year. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]   Excite Follows Yahoo into China - Partnering with the self-proclaimed premiere Chinese-language Web site, the Number Two portal player in the US gears up for overseas battle, launching a Chinese-language portal site. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]   Excite Gets QVC VP - The portal site hires a former senior executive from the TV shopping channel to add marketing muscle to its fight with America Online and Yahoo. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Excite Hires New President - The Net directory brings in a telecom exec to run the daily show, so current top brass can strategize. By Craig Bicknell. [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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