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A Cranky E-Commerce Christmas
- Online retailers had a great Christmas and record sales, but things weren't so rosy for buyers. Consumers air their many complaints in a new survey. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
A Facelift for High-Speed Cable
- As At Home seeks to break down the high-speed door to consumers, Excite brings a consumer-friendly face to the broadband market. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
A Free PC? Gimme!
- When Free-PC.com said it would give away computers to everyone willing to pony up personal data for advertisers, it expected 10,000 takers. It got 500,000. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
A Free PC? Gimme!
- When Free-PC.com said it would give away computers to everyone willing to pony up personal data for advertisers, it expected 10,000 takers. It got 500,000. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
A Healthy Debut for Medscape
- Medscape shares soar by more than 70 percent in its IPO. Analysts are at a loss to explain why. [Wired News]
A Home-Networking Mega-Alliance
- 3Com and Microsoft, eyeing a potential US$2 billion market, will sell a co-branded line of products intended to easily tie together a household. [Wired News]
A Kickstart for Startups
- Planning a business? Win MIT's Entrepreneurship Contest, and the VCs are sure to follow. By Louise Knapp. [Wired News]
A Kinder, Gentler Multimedia
- The Markle Foundation plans to pump big money into multimedia companies that aren't looking to just make a buck. Oxygen Media is first in line for cash. [Wired News]
A Method to E-tailing Madness
- Selling CDs, books, and cars at cost may seem like insanity, but some online retailers are thriving doing just that. Don't expect the insanity to last for long. [Wired News]
A Million Free iMacs
- A start-up says it will give away a million of Apple's cute little boxes. With several catches, of course. [Wired News]
A Net for Business, Not Laws
- Hands Off the Internet, a new anti-regulation group, joins the list of Washington think tanks and nonprofits lobbying against government regulation of e-commerce. Arik Hesseldahl reports from Chicago. [Wired News]
A New Powerhouse in Telecom
- Global Crossing, a two-year-old telecom upstart, will try to merge with US West, creating a rival to AT T and MCI WorldCom. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
A New Spin on Going Public
- A Net portal company, partly controlled by the largest US laundromat chain, is gearing up to go public on Nasdaq. It doesn't have any revenue, but plans to drum up traffic by giving away stock. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
A Note to our Readers
- Wired News was offline from approximately 11:40 p.m Thursday to 8:45 a.m. PDT Friday morning due to network problems. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused readers. [Wired News]
A Prescription for Riches?
- A Minneapolis woman who had the foresight to register drugs.com in 1994 put the domain name on the auction block for more than US$1 million. But will anyone pay? By Chris Gaither. [Wired News]
A Profile in Ferocity
- One colleague on iVillage chief Candice Carpenter: "She'll do whatever it takes to move the company forward." She plays hard, too. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
A Slew of IPOs Due Next Week
- Another week, another big ol' batch of Net IPOs. Topping the list next go-round: Barnesandnoble.com, DLJDirect. By Craig Bicknell [Wired News]
A Startup for Startups
- ECompanies, a 2-month-old firm, raises a whopping US$130 million to build a combination venture capital fund and startup incubator. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
A Trekkie's Dream
- Actors, Klingons, and the occasional Orion slave girl mingle amid the merchandise and memorabilia at the annual Star Trek convention. Lindsey Arent reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]
A Urinal? No, an Opportunity!
- New dot coms are desperate for attention, and they'll slap an ad just about anywhere they can find an audience. [Wired News]
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