Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Hotel Hotmail - Microsoft's free Web-based email service checks in 150,000 new users per day. Closing accounts is a different story. You can log in any time you want, but you can never leave. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Hotmail Accounts Exposed to All - More than 50 million Hotmail accounts were left exposed in what may be the most serious -- and definitely the most widespread -- Net security breach yet. By Declan McCullagh and James Glave. [Wired News]   House U-Turn on Patent Bill - Veteran Capitol Hill watchers are still shaking their heads in disbelief over lawmakers' complete about-face in an intellectual property vote. Result: Big companies lose. By Skip Kaltenheuser. [Wired News]   How Fast Is Your E-Broker? - A new index tracks the speed at which online brokers deliver pages to customers doing trades. Early results rank Brown Co. as speediest. ETrade and Suretrade finish in last place. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   How Low Can Microworkz Go? - The online retailer's new, US$199 iToaster, with a Linux-based OS, beats its cheapest model by a hundred bucks. [Wired News]   How Low Can They Go? - AT T answers its competitors' long-distance rates with 7 cents a minute -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Also: Infospace will distribute Net2Phone technology and services.... And Reuters' new-media man leaves to head a Net music company. [Wired News]   How Much Is Sexballs.com Worth? - There are nearly 1,000 domain names for sale each day on eBay, but no one's buying. How could nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.com not sell? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   How Oswald Saw It - Webcam gives the view from the Texas Book Depository. Also: Wells Fargo to test talking ATMs.... VoiceStream, Omnipoint agree to form wireless giant.... And more. [Wired News]   How to Make $5 Billion, Quick - Some suspected it, and now there's proof: The IPO process overvalues companies. Genentech goes public a second time, and is worth US$5 billion more than it was just a month ago. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   How to Make MP3 Pay - The Net-based music arena spawns hope for a massive revolution. But just how do MP3 users get a slice of the online billion-dollar pie? Discussion ensues at the New York Music Internet Expo. Jennifer Sullivan reports from New York. [Wired News]   How to Not Get Burned by an IPO - Tom Taulli, author of Investing in IPOs, drops by Wired News to share some tips. There are still some good bets, he says, but too many investors value stylish names over solid financials. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Howdy, (Asian American) Pardner! - Texas' Asian population is booming, thanks in large part to the tech industry. Is there political strength in those census numbers? Kevin Fullerton reports from Austin. [Wired News]   Huge IPOs Slated Next Week - Some big -- both in size and importance -- initial public offerings are slated for next week. Goldman Sachs will be the one to watch. But a Justice Department probe into the investment bank's practices could sour the week. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]   Huge Losses, Job Cuts at Compaq - The world's top computer maker reports a mammoth loss and says it will fire up to 8,000 employees. [Wired News]   Hungry Dogs in Armanis - One thing was clear at a New York venture capital conference: Beneath the manicured, coifed poise of Net entrepreneurs are desperately aggressive animals looking for morsels of cash. Craig Bicknell reports from New York. [Wired News]   I-Planet's Small World - New software by the maker of Java uses a Web browser to link traveling workers to their desktop computers. Just try leaving the office behind. [Wired News]   IBM Axes 1,100 Valley Jobs - IBM eliminates about 10 percent of its workforce in its San Jose, California, disk-drive development facilities. The job cuts sting, but this means faster development and lower costs, says the company. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   IBM Buys Into E-Ticketing - IBM plans to build a worldwide airline-ticketing platform. Also: China admits it's in trouble on Y2K.... A new study calls a lot of Internet stock analysis "spin".... And more. [Wired News]   IBM Buys Sequent - IBM wants Sequent's expertise in tying together cheap microprocessors to create powerful computers. Sequent's technology could wind up in everything from desktops to supercomputers. [Wired News]   IBM Does Linux - Big Blue, with Red Hat, says it will bring the free operating system to its computers, including the Netfinity server. [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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