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Wednesday 13 September 2000

What's in a name? The art of online branding

Nothing became boo.com quite like its passing. The clothes retailer with questionable financial management skills had singularly failed to persuade the fashionable to leave the high street for the superhighway. But in the week it headed towards liquidation, boo.com enjoyed its highest traffic figures ever.

Office announcement upsets Apple cart

Apple CEO Steve Jobs got booed at the company's annual Expo event in Paris this week, after announcing to the faithful that Microsoft Office 2001 will be available on the Mac in November.

Evolving e-marketplaces face ASP showdown

B2B marketplaces could soon find themselves competing head-to-head with ASPs, analysts are claiming today, as they move away from pure e-procurement to service provision and CRM.

Handset firms hit by investors' 3G fears

Handset manufacturers have been hit by falling share prices, and investor concerns over the costs of 3G implementation are getting the blame.

Inktomi purchases FastForward Networks for $1.3bn

Inktomi has agreed to pay $1.3bn to acquire FastForward Networks, provider of management software for web broadcasting.

IBM adds X-Series to notebook range

IBM has announced the latest addition to its ThinkPad notebook range, called the X-Series.

Profit boost for Thomson-CSF prompts share peak

Thomson-CSF, the French defence electronics group, has announced a rise in core profits of 29 per cent for the first-half period.

Nine out of ten cybercriminals outwit PC plod

Nine out of ten internet fraudsters are getting away with their offences because UK police are unable to cope with ecommerce crime.

Ten per cent of FTSE 100 offices to be emptied by 2020

One in ten FTSE 100 companies won't have an office by 2020 as they increasingly depend on mobile or home workers to run their businesses.

ASA rules on definition of free connection

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided companies offering connection to the internet can no longer include the word "free" in advertisements unless the entire service is free of charge.

Direkt Anlage bids £558m for Self Trade

German online brokerage Direkt Anlage Bank is set to buy France's Self Trade SA for E911m (£558m) in an attept to create a pan-European online trading system.

Fuel protestor forces Opec to shut website

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) website has been shut down following the sabotage of its front page.

SAP shares double on Neuer Markt debut

SAP SI shares debuted strongly yesterday on the German Neuer Markt, with shares rising dramatically to more than double the offer price of E19 (£11.50).

Businesses fail to learn from e-failures

Only one in four large businesses are setting proper targets for their ebusiness strategies, according to research published today by US IT consultancy AMS.

Retail Decisions reports first-half rise in profits

Retail Decisions - a UK company specialising in credit card fraud prevention - has reported a 23 per cent increase in its first-half turnover.

Siebel makes $975m move into financial market

CRM vendor Siebel Systems has purchased Canadian rival Janna Systems - which produces CRM software for investment banks and financial services firms - in a stock deal worth $975m.

Vodafone exposes Infostrada to Wind of change

Italian telco Wind has entered negotiations to buy Vodafone-owned Infostrada - Italy's second largest fixed line operator.

Morning Edition 13.09.00

silicon.com's daily two-minute guide to the best ebusiness and IT stories from this morning's UK national newspapers.


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