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Thursday 21 December 2000

Microsoft in $1.1bn Great Plains deal

US software giant Microsoft has acquired ebusiness developer Great Plains Software in a $1.1bn stock swap deal.

Vodafone swallows Eircell

Eircom has concluded the sale of Eircell to Vodafone for $4.12bn in Ireland's biggest-ever corporate deal.

Lucent restructure to follow results restating

US telecoms equipment manufacturer Lucent saw shares plunge 18 per cent today as it announced significant losses for the first quarter 2001 and restated income for the last quarter.

Siemens predicts gloomy year for 3G operators

An executive on the board of German electronics vendor Siemens has said he expects several mobile phone operators to collapse under the weight of hefty licence fees for third-generation mobile phones.

eDreams launches operations in France

European travel website eDreams today launched its new service in France. The company started trading at the height of the dot-com boom in March in Spain and Italy, in the UK in July and with the launch of edreams.fr is now operative in four European countries.

Recession nerves slow up IT spending

Companies will hold off IT spending as they wait to see how the world economy holds up in the first half of next year, according to a report from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

'Kriz' virus threatens crisis at Christmas

The Christmas virus threat re-emerged this week, with reports from McAfee that more than 1000 customers have been affected by holiday viruses over the past 45 days.

silicon.com e-tail survey: few shopping horrors online this Christmas

silicon.com viewers have given the thumbs-up to online shopping so far this Christmas with more then ever buying online, and just a handful with horror stories to tell. Letsbuyit.com has received the bulk of that criticism.

Anite adds Calculus Solutions

UK consultancy and IT services firm Anite Group said today it will purchase telecoms software firm Calculus Solutions for £50m.

Smutty email pranksters avoid sack

The people responsible for circulating the now infamous Claire Swire email have been disciplined by their employers, but have avoided the sack for their misdemeanors.

Cybercrime manifesto stalled by European Commission

Details of the European Commission's cybercrime forum - which were due to be unveiled this morning - will not be revealed until after Christmas.

US wireless auction hits a record with two weeks to go

The US wireless spectrum auction has hit $9.3bn with at least two weeks to run.

Q3 online ad spend up on 1999, down on Q2

Global online advertising spend for the third quarter of 2000 was $1.9bn, down 6.5 per cent from Q2 - the first time web sales have fallen quarter to quarter.

AT&T slash shareholder payout

AT&T has announced it is to reduce its dividend by around 83 per cent, warning investors that profit and sales figures will not meet expectations.

AT&T cuts, QXL honoured for failure and Tory double dealing goes online

The Financial Times brings word of troubled times for US telco AT&T.

Tech stocks continue never-ending spiral

A series of profits warnings from tech companies, as well as downgrades of Cisco, Hewlett Packard and IBM by Merrill Lynch, saw Nasdaq close 7.1 per cent down yesterday.

Goodbye to 2000: Bursting bubbles, mega mergers and teetering telecoms

If 1999 felt like one long Friday night for the high-tech industry - and dot-com glory hunters in particular - 2000 has been nothing short of a perpetual Monday morning.


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