Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   BigBook Sells Its Name to GTE - Mum's the word from the online yellow-pages firm, but folks at GTE say the company has sold its domain name and trademark and will now focus on sales, rather than publishing. [Wired News]   Biggest Bank to Toy with Tech Underwriters - A merger between BankAmerica and NationsBank will also bring together investment firms Robertson Stephens and Montgomery Securities -- and cause a few ripples in the competitive tech-underwriting pond. [Wired News]   Biometrics Standards in Works - Tech titans like IBM, Microsoft, and Compaq are teaming up to speed the way to that day when passwords will become obsolete and electronic systems recognize our fingerprints, faces, and retinas. [Wired News]   Boob Tube or Geek Box? - As technologies emerge around the vision of a networked digital domicile, TV and PC proponents compete to be at the center of it all. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is covering both bases, as evidenced by a pair of announcements this week. [Wired News]   Booksellers Fear a Monopoly - Barnes Noble's planned purchase of book-distributor Ingram would give the firm a major boost in the industry. That's got rivals a little concerned. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Borders Online Opens This Week? - The Borders Group hinted that its online bookstore would open this week, but declined to discuss it in detail. [Wired News]   Borders Online Opens This Week? - The Borders Group hinted that its online bookstore would open this week, but declined to discuss it in detail. [Wired News]   Boys and Girls, Separate Doors - The number of women online is surging, and -- guess what? -- they don't use the Internet the same way that men do. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]   Branding .com - Network Solutions is simplifying domain name registration to draw new customers. But does it have the right to lay claim to the .com domain? By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Brazil OKs Telebras Privatization - The country's Supreme Court has ruled that a shareholders' meeting held to approve the break-up of Telebras was legal, clearing aside a challenge to the US$11.7 billion privatization plan. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Brazil's Telco Grabbag - Some of the world's biggest telephone companies buy pieces of Telebras, the state-owned Brazilian phone company. In return, Brazil gets a US$19 billion windfall. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]   Brazil's Telco Samba - The privatization of Brazil's state-owned telephone company, Telebras, is creating a giddy chaos for investors, politicians, and consumers -- just what you'd expect from the creators of Carnaval. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]   Brewing Battle Over Net Calls - ICG says it won't comply with BellSouth's new plan to levy access charges on Internet telephony service providers -- a tiff that could make the FCC weigh in. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   British Telecom Builds on MCI - After realizing a US$1.8 billion profit from its investment in MCI/Worldcom, British Telecom will combine MCI's Concert business unit with an existing AT T partnership. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]   Broadcast.com Wows Wall Street - The Internet news and entertainment broadcaster could become a cyber-CBS, making its issue the hottest IPO of the year. But slow modems could hinder its growth for years to come. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Broadcom Makes a Big Splash - The future looks bright for the maker of chips used in cable modems, whose two-day-old stock has shot through the roof. But a slew of competitors coming down the pike could upset the upstart's head start. [Wired News]   Broderbund Acquired - The Learning Company agrees to pay US$420 million for Broderbund Software, the maker of popular games such as Myst and Riven. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Brokers Fight for Equal Rights - As the proposed merger between the American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq moves forward, Amex floor brokers argue for a system that treats human and electronic traders equally. [Wired News]   Buddy, You're a Rival Now - The bottom line in Yahoo's jilting search partner AltaVista in favor of Inktomi: AltaVista's business too closely resembles Yahoo's portal enterprise. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]   Building Jets, Virtually - Battling with Boeing to win a US government contract for a new fighter jet, Lockheed Martin turns to networked collaborative engineering and virtual prototypes. [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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