Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   High-Tech Fears Over India - US sanctions against India for its nuclear testing will smack the tech sector, but how hard? By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Hollywood Helper - Watch Titanic closely. See all those deck chairs? Someone has to keep track of the myriad props. That's where Rod Henson, Jon Gaster, and their new software company, Columbus Systems, come in. By Brian Alcorn. [Wired News]   Hope of Rate Cut Spurs Stocks - It's appearing increasingly likely that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. Stocks rise on the optimism. The Wired Index gains 1.76 to 382.86. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   How To Make $$$$ with XXXX - The little guy can still earn a handsome wage in the online porno biz. And there are plenty of resources to help porntrepreneurs get started. By Becky Bond. [Wired News]   IBM Beats Wall Street - The world's biggest computer company reports better than expected third-quarter earnings, but warns that future pleasant surprises may not be forthcoming. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   IBM Goes Cellular, Buying Chip Designer - With today's buyout of CommQuest, Big Blue will ramp up its development of chips for license to makers of cell phones and wireless communications gizmos. [Wired News]   IBM Picks Apache - IBM will shortly announce that it has chosen to bundle Apache's Web server with its new suite of ecommerce development tools. The decision could hit Netscape hard. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   IBM Profit Beats Forecast - IBM's second-quarter earnings barely budged, hurt by dismal hardware sales, falling memory chip prices, and Asia's economic troubles. But they were good enough to beat Wall Street forecasts by a whisker. [Wired News]   ICANN Meeting No 'Lovefest' - In mailing lists and discussion groups, critics have roasted the nonprofit group selected to oversee the governance of the Internet. On Saturday, things got personal. Declan McCullagh reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Wired News]   ICQ Fans Rage Against AOL - Mirabilis posted a letter to the ICQ site, assuring users of the popular chat software that the company's acquisition by America Online is a good thing, really. Still, fears of censorship and commercialization are driving some users away. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   IDC: PC Sales Recovering - IDC predicts PC unit shipments will rise as vendors get their inventories under better control. Still, growth for the year will be far below 1997. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]   IPO Certainly Not COOL - Cyberian's IPO is smoking, as shares jump by as much as US$9.25 on the first day of trading. It's more evidence that investors are dying to place bets on would-be Web Wal-Marts. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   IPO Wowser: EarthWeb Triples - Shares of the content developer triple in the first few hours of its publicly traded life, giving new hope to IPO hopefuls everywhere. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Id&#233es Fortes: Productivity Paradox - Are traditional productivity measurements blind to the information economy? As economist Robert Solow once put it: Computers can be seen everywhere but in productivity stats. [Wired News]   In CPA We Might Trust - WebTrust, a band of CPA do-gooders, wants to put its seal of approval on your ecommerce site. Question is, will it do any good? [Wired News]   In Ernst & Young We TRUSTe - The accounting firm will audit and monitor Web companies to make sure they respect the privacy of their customers. Plus, they'll keep Washington in the loop. By James Glave. [Wired News]   In Mac They Trust - It's getting harder to find developers that build exclusively for the Mac platform, but the few who do seem to believe in it like a cause - even as they consider the Windows platform. [Wired News]   Infoseek Insider Sells Shares - As the portal enters the final stages of a joint venture with Disney, the company's second biggest shareholder files to sell most of its holding. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Inktomi Buys Shop Bot Shop - Reaching beyond its search-engine roots, Inktomi spends US$90 million to buy C2B Technologies. The goal: A souped-up shopping product for portals by 1999. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Inktomi Sales Quadruple - The search engine software provider's revenue surges in the latest quarter, as Internet queries at its customers' sites explode. Its loss is less than expected. By Jennifer Sullivan. [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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