Archive - 21 Dec 2000
Microsoft in $1.1bn Great Plains deal
US software giant Microsoft has acquired ebusiness developer Great Plains Software in a $1.1bn stock...
Vodafone swallows Eircell
Eircom has concluded the sale of Eircell to Vodafone for $4.12bn in Ireland's biggest-ever corporate...
Siemens predicts gloomy year for 3G operators
An executive on the board of German electronics vendor Siemens has said he expects several mobile ph...
eDreams launches operations in France
European travel website eDreams today launched its new service in France. The company started tradin...
Lucent restructure to follow results restating
US telecoms equipment manufacturer Lucent saw shares plunge 18 per cent today as it announced signif...
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 ...
'Kriz' virus threatens crisis at Christmas
The Christmas virus threat re-emerged this week, with reports from McAfee that more than 1000 custom...
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...
Anite adds Calculus Solutions
UK consultancy and IT services firm Anite Group said today it will purchase telecoms software firm C...
Smutty email pranksters avoid sack
The people responsible for circulating the now infamous Claire Swire email have been disciplined by ...
Cybercrime manifesto stalled by European Commission
Details of the European Commission's cybercrime forum - which were due to be unveiled this morning -...
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 ...
AT&T slash shareholder payout
AT&T has announced it is to reduce its dividend by around 83 per cent, warning investors that profit...
Tech stocks continue never-ending spiral
A series of profits warnings from tech companies, as well as downgrades of Cisco, Hewlett Packard a...
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.
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 pa...
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