Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Presidential Ragtop, Lo Miles - LBJ was too busy running for re-election in 1964 to cruise around in his Lincoln Continental convertible. Now the classic auto goes to the highest bidder on eBay. [Wired News]   Price Hike Keeps NetGrocer Alive - The once-heralded grocery delivery service needed more revenue in a hurry. So it jacked up its fees, which didn't please too many customers. The CEO says he's not worried. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Priceline Names New President - Priceline.com names a top executive from AT T as its new president and COO. Also: Compaq expects second-quarter loss.... Qwest turns to Cisco amid takeover turmoil.... Starbucks, Oxygen in cross-promotional deal.... And more. [Wired News]   Priceline.com Patent Challenged - A lawyer says he beat the Internet auction house to the punch over a key type of online bidding. The US patent system is blamed for the mess. By Brian Alcorn. [Wired News]   PrivaSeek Seeks Attention - PrivaSeek launches a Web service that is designed to negotiate how consumers share their personal data with Web sites that want it. Now all it needs is customers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Privacy and Purchasing Power - Step aside, Yellow Pages; it's time for a new kind of phone book. Novell is trying to forge ahead of IBM and AT T with a multilevel Web directory. [Wired News]   Procter Makes Up a Gamble - The drugstore beauty king is angling for crossover dollars in the land of online luxury cosmetics. But will Web users log on for personalized lipstick? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Prodigy Buys New Eyeballs - The struggling Internet service provider tries growth by acquisition, purchasing a bunch of new subscribers. Also: Meeker gives Net stocks the jitters.... Discovery in trouble-free launch.... Pirated Phantom turns up in Macau.... and more. [Wired News]   Prophets of Profit - Wall Street weather-guessers and Silicon Valley superstars gather to foretell the future of business and finance in the high-tech world. And the word is good. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Psst! Wanna Buy Some Iridium? - Trading may have been halted when the pioneering telecom company went bankrupt last week, but that didn't stop one enterprising stockholder from trying to auction off shares. [Wired News]   Public Access TV -- on Steroids - The TV networks don't have to worry about Yahoo's acquisition of broadcast.com. But the combination creates a medium that can make a buck broadcasting high school football games. By Joanna Glasner and Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]   Public Porn? No Stock Answer - Contrary to popular belief, money-rich porn sites can go public. Whether smut on the Web can make it big in the stock market is another matter. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Publisher Must Lay Down the Law - For years, West Publishing claimed to own the text of the law because it printed the law. Its court battles with a scrappy tech company have put the law back into the hands of the public. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   Purple Moon Eclipsed - The high-profile girl gaming company is shut down in the face of Barbie's market domination. All employees are fired and operations are suspended. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Que Pasa? A Killer IPO - Shares of Quepasa, a Latino-oriented search engine, surge in the first day of trading. Also: CMGI is indeed in talks to buy AltaVista.... Lucent completes its giant acquisition of Ascend. [Wired News]   Queasy Market Spins Down, Up - First, tech stocks tank on a bevy of bad news, including hints of inflation and price wars. Then bargain hunters push them right back up. Analysts cast an uneasy eye to the future. [Wired News]   Queens for Three Days - At the Women In Technology International conference, it's the women who call the shots and exhibit some rare marketing schemes. Lindsey Arent reports from Santa Clara, California. [Wired News]   Quixtar: Half Empty or Half Full? - The multi-level-marketed e-commerce site came online after months of hype, only to crash and burn. The reps' responses varied from intense frustration to upbeat hope. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Qwest Completes Its Quest - After a long bidding war, US West accepts a US$35 billion takeover offer from upstart Qwest Communications. Meanwhile, US West's other suitor snaps up long-distance telco Frontier Communications. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Qwest Deals Rejected on Appeal - An appeals court says regional phone companies can't have marketing agreements with long distance companies. It's the same as offering long distance service -- a no-no under the stringent standards set by the 1996 Telecom Act. [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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