Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   GoTo Searches With a Capitalist Engine - Who wants a search engine that's rigged to take you to the site most willing to pay for your eyes? GoTo.com can't wait to find out. [Wired News]   GoodNoise Signs Frank Black - A series of signings by Net record companies means small, digitally distributed music vendors have found a market niche. Big labels are still scared of the Net. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Government Writes First 'Echeck' - A trial program to send electronic checks over the Internet is under way. Businesses may benefit in the future, but the system is too new to help the government meet its mandate that all federal payments be electronic by 1999. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Greenspan Clobbers Markets - The Fed chairman manages to spook the markets with his comments to Congress, saying current values may be "difficult to sustain." The Wired Index drops 7.19 to 458.02. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Greenspan Mum, But Stocks Rise - The Fed chairman wouldn't reveal short-term plans in congressional testimony, but investors still expect central banks to cut interest rates to boost economies. The Wired Index rises 0.66 to 383.62. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Greenspan Speech Boosts Stocks - A tiny hint that the Fed might consider an interest rate cut results in one of the best days ever in US stock market history. The Wired Index surges 23.33 to 389.71. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Greenspan Talk Boosts Stocks - The Fed chief gives a speech in which he doesn't say much. Since no news is good news for investors these days, stocks rise. The Wired Index climbs 2.72 to 423.82. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Grove Steps Down; Analysts Shrug - Those who spend their time watching the chip industry say the Intel co founder's departure really doesn't change much for his company or its competitors. [Wired News]   Grove Steps Down; Analysts Shrug - Those who spend their time watching the chip industry say the Intel co founder's departure really doesn't change much for his company or its competitors. [Wired News]   Grove: Doctors Need PCs - The elder statesman of the PC industry scolds doctors for not using even the most basic PC technology to improve their practice. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   HP Java Fight Will Test Sun's Resources - In launching its own Java virtual machine for devices such as printers, Hewlett-Packard is telling Sun that the company can't be all things to everyone. [Wired News]   HP: Good, But Not Good Enough - The beleaguered computer maker beats Wall Street earnings expectations but falls short of its own high standards. Also: Electronic Arts buys Virgin's Westwood Studios. [Wired News]   HP: Sun Hampering Embedded Java - In launching its own Java virtual machine for devices such as printers, Hewlett-Packard is telling Sun that the company can't be all things to everyone. [Wired News]   Hatch to FTC: Go Easy on Intel - The Utah Senator and Microsoft foe urges the FTC to be "careful" in its handling of an antitrust suit against Intel. By sheer coincidence, Intel is negotiating with Utah to build a big new plant in Salt Lake County. [Wired News]   Healtheon IPO Date Slipping - The health-care software company pushes back the date for its initial public offering to the week of 5 October, two weeks later than originally scheduled. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Healtheon Pulls IPO - Market conditions prompt an Internet startup from the founder of Netscape to withdraw its initial public offering. That was one good reason, analysts say. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Herbold: 'May The Best Product Win' - Microsoft's COO took the opportunity in a Monday morning keynote to tell us, one more time, why it's good for all of us to leave the software superpower unfettered. The government, he said, shouldn't stifle corporate innovation. [Wired News]   Here Comes AltaVista - AltaVista's fortunes were flagging under the ownership of Digital. Then Compaq bought Digital, and AltaVista got a sugar daddy with portal ambitions. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Hey, AT&T! Call Optus - Australian cable-TV operator Optus has figured out how to send voice calls over cable. It was a brutal experience. AT&T should ask for pointers to pull off the TCI acquisition. By Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]   High Tech Unfazed by Copyright Ruling - The Supreme Court ruled that copyright-holding US manufacturers can't block distributors who have bought their goods overseas from reselling them on the cheap at home. But the tech world says it won't affect software sales much. [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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