Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Alcatel Buys Packet Engines - Alcatel buys a Gigabit Ethernet gearmaker for US$315 million, lengthening the list of telco equipment makers buying their way into the computer networking market. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   All Is Not A-OK on Y2K - Fresh data from the leading Year 2000 researcher doesn't exactly scream the news, but the odds that businesses worldwide will make it into the next millennium without a bug bite aren't good. By Pete Danko. [Wired News]   Amazon Earnings Extravaganza - The world's biggest online bookseller reports record revenues and a loss lower than Wall Street expected. Oh, and it's also the world's biggest online music store now. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Amazon Goes Ape - Think Amazon.com's stock is too expensive? A CIBC Oppenheimer analyst says the stock's going to US$400. By the way, Oppenheimer wants Amazon's banking business. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Amazon Lands Wal-Martian - The No. 1 online bookseller hires another former Wal-Mart exec to deal with its ever-expanding logistical operations. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Amazon Loss Widens, Sales Soar - The poster child of ecommerce didn't disappoint. It racked up second-quarter revenues of US$116 million and lost less money than Wall Street expected. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Amazon's Not Just a Bookworm - The online bookseller saw its stock sail up by 15 percent on Tuesday, as it pushed aside its bookbag for a minute to look into music and video sales. [Wired News]   Amazon: We Got the Beat - The darling of online booksellers starts offering 100,000 CDs today, but Internet music vendors CDnow and N2K say they're not worried. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Ameritech Hit with Injunction - The FCC wants the Baby Bell to stop enrolling customers in a long-distance program it offers with Qwest, until it figures out if such marketing agreements violate telecommunication law. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Ameritech, SBC Defend Merger - Company officials say their plan to create a global telecom powerhouse would benefit consumers, a claim challenged by AT T and others at a hearing on the deal. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Amex-Nasdaq: When Opposites Attract - The maybe-merger between the traditional American Stock Exchange and the virtual trading floor of Nasdaq shows signs of becoming a statistic in the trend toward replacing aggressive trading pits with faceless electronics. [Wired News]   Amusement Acquisition: a Kodak Moment - The imaging giant swallowed up a couple of companies that make photographic systems to capture you in that moment of giddy surrender on theme park rides. But be serious, for Kodak it's all about distribution. [Wired News]   An Apple for Under $1,000? - With Cupertino making noises about trying to retake the home consumer market, word on the street is that a three-figure Macintosh isn't far away. [Wired News]   An Education in Consolidation - After a school year of acquisitions, some 60 percent of the edu-software market is now in two companies' hands, and critics complain that innovation is being lost to consolidation. [Wired News]   An NC in Every Apartment, Really - As part of a new job training program put together by the city of Oakland and IBM, residents at a public housing project will get computer skills training - and their own network computer. [Wired News]   Andreessen Invests in Replay - Netscape's co-founder puts his bucks into a company that he hopes will make the equivalent of a browser for television. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Another Net IPO Shines - DoubleClick is the latest in a wave of Internet companies to go public with a bang. Behind the warm reception, analysts say, is a combination of good timing, truly attractive properties, and investor savvy. [Wired News]   Another Try at Auctioning Ad Leftovers - After the demise of Adbot, a new company - Adauction - is giving online ad auctions a go. [Wired News]   Antitrust Wonks Ponder Microsoft - Consumer advocates, think tank types, and lawyers meet in Seattle to decide how best to apply existing antitrust laws to the high-tech industry, particularly poster child Microsoft. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]   Apple Bets the Farm on CompUSA - Cupertino took a hit from Wall Street on Tuesday as it announced that it was discontinuing its presence in all but one major retail chain. [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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