Archive - 01 May 2001
Korean fear: why US dot-com giants may lose out to the East
The inexorable rise of eBay received another great boost today with the release of the latest global...
Amazon balances its books
Amazon.com is considering restructuring its $2.1bn debt in an effort to strengthen its finances, acc...
Guess who's to blame for DSL hell? (And it's not BT)
Telco provider GTS are expected to launch a public assault on European prime ministers this week cla...
Start-up finds funding despite venture capital drought
ASP software supplier SevenMountains (7M) has announced it has received £4.7m of second-round fundin...
'Merciless' Dell prepares for staff cull
Speculation is growing that PC maker Dell is on the verge of announcing a swathe of job cuts due to ...
Wham, bam, thank you SAM: $7.8m for storage technology pioneer
Silicon Valley start-up InterSAN has secured $7.8m of first-round venture capital money to develop t...
Chevron slips up on oil deal
US oil giant Chevron has lost its bid to buy PetroCosm, the industry marketplace it helped found, af...
Yahoo! pulls the plug on "bathtub society" racists
A racist website calling for the repatriation of ethnic minorities and praising the opinions of righ...
Digital radio for the masses - the race is on
The race is on among the leading handset manufacturers to debut the world's first data enabled mobil...
PSINet changes leadership following de-listing
PSINet has announced that chief operating officer Harry Hobbs will replace founder William Schrader ...
eBay auctions off Amazon's crown
eBay has knocked Amazon.com off top spot in the latest monthly survey into ecommerce traffic by web ...
Oracle sees brighter future through 9i
Oracle expects a better time in 2002, driven by sales of the new 9i database - but will that be enou...
Fighting Fraud: Real live scams
Using the web to cheat and defraud is a reality. Here, Peter Lilley - author of Dirty Dealing: Th...
Excite staff exit
ISP Excite@home is to axe 380 staff - 13 per cent of its workforce - as falling advertising revenue ...
Reuters takes Bridge to 'virtual monopoly'
Reuters is to acquire most of the assets of bankrupt US software company Bridge Information Systems ...
Model Management: Vive l'exception francaise!
This week's column from the team at business management portal FTdynamo looks at the role government...
Sayonara Bland: BT backs out of Japan Telecom
Less than a week after the resignation of chairman Sir Iain Vallance, BT has admitted defeat in the ...
Stockwatch Daily: London on a downer as Europe holidays
London markets dipped into the red this morning as many mainland European traders take a day of rest...
Mobiles set to drive PKI growth
Investment in public key infrastructure (PKI) products is set to skyrocket because of the growth in ...