Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Schwab Guns for Big Accounts - Schwab isn't satisfied with its online achievements. Company president Pottruck wants more full-service accounts to move online. By Theta Pavis. [Wired News]   Schwab Moving into Japan - The US brokerage announces a joint online trading venture with one of the country's leading insurance companies. Also: US regulators drop Cisco probe.... Yahoo to acquire Online Anywhere.... CBS grabs a stake in Switchboard.... And more. [Wired News]   Schwab Online Breaks Down - The brokerage's online trading system shut down for about an hour Wednesday morning because of mainframe problems. [Wired News]   Schwab: Put a Lid on It - Concerned that the market is growing unstable due to the frenzy surrounding high-tech stocks, Charles Schwab urges the Nasdaq to step in when individual issues appear headed out of control. By Dan Brekke. [Wired News]   Screams of Delight at Visio - The technical drawing software company joins the Redmond empire in a US$1.3 billion stock deal. [Wired News]   Seagate Blitzes Forecasts - A year after laying off 10,000 people, the disk-drive giant comes in with a US$104 million quarterly profit, beating the Street ... big time. [Wired News]   Search Reveals Unequal Access - A new study illustrates that search engines are increasingly biased in their response to queries. By Louise Knapp. [Wired News]   Second Dash for Quick Cash - Net companies, insiders, and bankers make a mint by rushing through secondary stock offerings weeks after the companies go public. They want to get theirs while the gettin's good. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Seeking Angel Capital in NYC - For all the Wall Street wealth and its society of plutocrats, New York has yet to get the hang of West Coast-style angel investing. Craig Bicknell reports from the NYC Venture Capital Conference in Manhattan. [Wired News]   Sega Boss: Game Over - Was it a personality clash, or was it the new console's poor performance in Japan that led Sega's chief to jump ship? Goodbye, Bernard Stolar, hello Toshiro Kezuka. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News]   Selling Books or Screen Space? - What does it take for a book to win top billing on Amazon.com? Critics say it comes down to cold, hard cash. The online bookseller defends its editorial independence. [Wired News]   Selling Japan on Buying - Millions of Japanese people use the Web, despite fears and high costs. Then why aren't they buying more online? A couple of businessmen are trying to make a difference. By Debbi Gardiner. [Wired News]   Selling PCs the Mary Kay Way - A PC marketer uses one-on-one marketing to boost its revenues. The first 10,001 people who agree to annoy their friends and neighbors could earn a free PC. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Senator Slams AT&T Cable Bid - Senator McCain says AT T's bid for MediaOne would hurt consumers if successful. He feels the 1996 Telecommunications Act is to blame. [Wired News]   Serving Up Eggs on the Web - The online egg donation industry is raking in big bucks from infertile couples. Trouble is, they don't always get what they bargained for. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Sex Sites Getting Screwed - It's conventional wisdom that the online porn biz sets trends for e-commerce. Given the rate of canceled credit-card charges, online merchants hope that wisdom will falter. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Sex.com's Pipe Dream - The owner of Sex.com, who's embroiled in a strange lawsuit alleging the theft of the lucrative domain name, makes a wild US$3.6 billion bid for Caesars Palace casinos. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Share Prices Seek a Clue - Wall Street feels its way along uncertainly as investors weigh a mixed bag of earnings, stock splits, and turbulence abroad. Business as usual. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]   She's Not Your Mother's ISP - The most fearsome player in the Internet game isn't Microsoft or America Online anymore. It's AT T. Ma Bell sets out to control the high-speed wires into people's homes. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Shoes Online Steps Up to the Net - The Nordstrom department store chain wants to bulk up its online presence by launching what it claims will be the Net's largest shoe store. By Joanna Glasner. [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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