Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Dell, Amazon Plug Each Other - The biggest online bookstore and the biggest direct seller of PCs will build co-branded Web pages. Also: British regulators offer a proposal that would lower Net-access fees.... Huge Lucent bond offering. [Wired News]   Dell-IBM Pact Sparks Rally - Wall Street puts its rate-hike anxiety on hold to revel in a US$16 billion alliance between a pair of PC heavyweights. But new jobs data could end the party soon. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   Deutsche Telekom Gets Dumped - Olivetti prevails in a US$32.52 billion hostile takeover of Telecom Italia and leaves Deutsche Telekom to lick its wounds. [Wired News]   Digital TV Superpower? - The rumored merger of Britain's BSkyB and France's Canal Plus would dominate Europe -- which is why many analysts wonder if regulators would let it happen. [Wired News]   Diller Swats Day-Trading 'Gnats' - The USA Network chief blasts stock-market greed and a "foolish" Dave Wetherell for threatening his bid to acquire Lycos and create a company that he believes is the future of the Internet. James Glave reports from Scottsdale, Arizona. [Wired News]   Ding-Dong, Divx Is Dead - The creators of Divx, the video format that set off one of the most vitriolic hate campaigns on the Internet, are putting their creation to sleep. Celebration erupts on the Net. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   DirecTV Buys PrimeStar - The biggest US satellite-TV broadcaster gobbles up a smaller rival for US$1.32 billion in cash and stock. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Disney Grabs Online Toy Seller - The entertainment giant's Buena Vista Internet Group takes a controlling interest in toysmart.com. Also: Liquid Audio's new offering supports MP3, RealAudio.... The Unabomber tells a story online.... Titanic is king of the DVD world.... And more. [Wired News]   Disney May Buy All of Infoseek - The Mouse House apparently likes the Internet game. It's in talks to buy all of Infoseek. Also: Intergraph says a federal judge ruled in its favor over a key part of its antitrust case against Intel.... and more. [Wired News]   Disney to Buy Out Infoseek - The entertainment giant plans to combine its expanded Net offerings into a separately traded company, called Go.com. Also: Net biggies in new lobbying effort.... EToys jumps into book sales.... EBay has a rotten weekend.... Kazakhs remain peeved at Russia.... And another Net prescription bust. [Wired News]   Dispute over Priceline's Model - Three weeks after the online auctioneer filed plans to go public, a lawyer challenges the company's patented business model. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Divx is Dead - After incurring US$116 million in losses and setting off the biggest hate campaign ever launched against a consumer device, the creators of the controversial Divx format decide to fold their tent. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Dixons to Take Freeserve Public - Just nine months after launch, it's Britain's largest Internet service provider, and could be worth as much as US$3 billion. Also: All-in-one message centers make a splash.... Motorola and Cisco buy Bosch Telecom unit, plan joint wireless effort.... IBM, Acer in huge purchasing deal. [Wired News]   Dobbs: Net Sector Looking Good - After ditching a powerhouse position at CNN to launch a Net startup, ex-business anchor Lou Dobbs says he's still bullish on the Internet economy. In fact, he's upbeat about the whole market. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Doc Arrested for Drug Site - A Maryland doctor could go to prison over charges that he illegally prescribed diet pills over the Internet. [Wired News]   Doctoring Up an IPO - Yet another Net firm decides the market is too hot to pass up. This time it's WebMD, an Atlanta company that hopes the whole health-care world will plug into its Web site. [Wired News]   Does Reach Really Matter? - Yahoo said it bought Web page provider GeoCities in part to connect with a larger share of the Web population. But is reach the Holy Grail of measurement? By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]   Dot Coms Target 'Dot Commuters' - Following the credo that brand-building is everything, cash-flush startups spend big bucks on billboards. You can run, but you can't escape the giant URLs. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   DoubleClick Shares Dip Again - DoubleClick could lose big time if its biggest customer, AltaVista, follows through with a possible acquisition by CMGI. [Wired News]   DoubleClick's Single Focus: You - DoubleClick plans to buy database marketer Abacus Direct for US$1 billion. This could make DoubleClick the Net's top direct marketer, and a big headache for privacy advocates. By Craig Bicknell. [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 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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