Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Three Net IPOs Delayed - Blame it on Amazon. Several tech companies are putting off their planned stock market debuts as investors shy away from new Net issues. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   TiVo IPO Goes Vavoom - The customized TV programming service storms out of the gate, with shares opening 162 percent above its initial offering price. [Wired News]   TiVo: 'Meet My Buddy, Sony' - The fledgling maker of personal video recorders got a huge boost Wednesday. No terms were divulged, but this wasn't about terms. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Times, Amazon Feud over List - After Amazon announces new discounts on New York Times best sellers, the paper asks the company to stop referring to its list. Amazon instead takes the matter to court. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Tokyo Salivates over Oracle IPO - With Net-related issues scarce in Japan, stock in the database giant's subsidiary looks pretty tasty. [Wired News]   Top SGI Guy: Bye Bye - Just two weeks after he announced big layoffs and a major corporate re-jiggering at his company, SGI chief Richard Belluzzo unexpectedly resigned. [Wired News]   Tower of Babel Takes on Times - Tripping over a 10-dollar word while reading The New York Times online? A new software program offers an easy point-and-click translation. Tania Hershman reports from Jerusalem. [Wired News]   Trading from the Inside Out - A couple of professors think they've found a way to eliminate insider trading, and guess what? Institutional investors won't like it. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Travel Agents Face Y2K Now - The world's travel industry confronts an important acid test Thursday, when it begins to accept bookings for 1 January 2000. [Wired News]   Trouble in the Amazon - Rivals intend to compete against the big daddy of e-tailing by taking a loss on every sale. Suddenly, the online bookseller's prospects look a bit dimmer. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Tunes.com Beats Viacom to Punch - JamTV, which operates the Rolling Stone Network, launches a music hub site less than a week after Viacom unveils its plans to bring together MTV and VH1 on the Web. [Wired News]   Tut is King of Friday IPOs - Shares of Tut Systems, a firm that makes high-speed Net-access devices, more than doubles in the first day of trading. [Wired News]   Two More Join Net-Stock Frenzy - Software developers Vignette and Web Trends hit the public market, and both soar. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Two Words: Net Start-ups - At a Harvard Business School conference, venture capitalists have encouraging words for budding entrepreneurs: We've got a ton of cash to give away. Scott Kirsner reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Wired News]   UPS Files for a Big IPO - United Parcel Service, the granddaddy of the overnight package delivery business, files to sell shares in an intial public offering. Since e-commerce wouldn't be possible without the company, the IPO will be huge. [Wired News]   US Readies Y2K Bunker - The government's top bug-buster explains the plan to build a command center to handle emergencies. Also: European Union probes Network Solutions' licensing deals.... AT&T earnings edge forecast.... HP gives spinoff a name.... Apple makes rare outside investment.... And more. [Wired News]   US Stocks Hammered Again - Interest rate worries and a big drop in Internet stocks result in one of the worst days so far this year for the stock market. David Lazarus is on special assignment in Japan. [Wired News]   US Stocks Hit Session High - Technology stocks rebound harder than Dennis Rodman, propelling the market to a session high at midday. [Wired News]   US West Up on Acquisition Talk - Shares of US West edged up on Friday due to talk that the Denver-based Baby Bell is negotiating its acquisition by Global Crossing, a Bermuda company that builds fiber-optic cable networks. [Wired News]   US West, Qwest Will Talk - Global Crossing consents to negotiations between the two, but its deal with US West is still on. For now. Also: Microsoft and RealNetworks bring Real's newest streaming-audio format to WebTV.... And a probe into possible employment abuses in Silicon Valley. [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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