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RSS sportsMurdoch docks Fox websites
News Foxnews.com, Foxsports.com, and Fox.com will no longer be produced by News Corp's US based internet subsidiary News Digital Media, but by Fox TV companies - Fox News Channel, the Fox Sports Television Group, and the Fox Broadcasting Company... [05 Jan 2001]
Newcastle United pioneers e-learning centre
News Support centre manager, Phil McBride said: "We are delighted with the success of the centre, and hope to use it as a template for other clubs and other sports world wide, so that they too can give young people, whatever their ability, an... [28 Nov 2000]
Sportingbet.com gives AIM better odds
News It plans to use the money to achieve its aim of becoming "the leading online global sports book". The listing, likely to take place in January, will include a "modest" new share issue intended to give the company a market capitalisation of up to... [09 Nov 2000]
French e-tail sales flounder
News Holidays, records and books are the most popular e-tail purchases, followed by sports items and games. According to a survey by the research centre for the study and observation of the conditions of life (CREDOC) in France, only 800,000 French... [16 Oct 2000]
NBC site wins gold in online Olympics battle
News It ranked number two behind the NBC site overall.sports.yahoo.com came in third, and even outscored olympics.com on occasion to move into second place. The top site in Europe, olympics.com, generated 3.6 million page views, followed by de.sports... [09 Oct 2000]
EC plays it straight in bid for dot-eu
News The report suggests a number of solutions, including creating a range of second tier domains like culture-dot-eu and sports-dot-eu, or restricting domains only to trademark holders. The European Community Panel of Participants (EC-POP) steering... [06 Oct 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: Let the great job hunt begin (again)!
Comment In June of last year, I wrote a column about getting a job in the Silicon Valley. At the time, the job market was red hot, with companies regularly offering huge signing bonuses to get people to join them. [20 Sep 2000]
What's in a name? The art of online branding
Comment The legendary battle between sports equipment manufacturer Prince and a small training company of the same name was the first illustration of these dangers. Of course, many of the visitors back in May were merely rubber-necking, but it does... [13 Sep 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Letscutstaff.com, the euro bites back, and IBM's PC dilemma
Comment It primarily sells white goods, computers, and sports and leisure products and usually achieves discounts of around 30 per cent by dealing in volume directly with manufacturers. Letsbuyit.com, the UK-based European online retailer, announced its... [04 Sep 2000]
Olympic Games results to be digitalised by Xerox
News During the two-week event, 1,000 electronic results books will be created for distribution to sports federations and the media. Each CD-ROM will contain the results of all 28 sports challenges, in searchable format. [31 Aug 2000]
Olympics record set as video streamed online
News Full-screen video content of the games will be available from NBCOlympics.com - a website created by broadcaster NBC and sports media company Quokka - via a network of ISPs using Axient's broadband media-streaming technology, Octane. [11 Aug 2000]
Granada bets £20m on Liverpool FC
News Vodafone and Sports.com have both invested heavily in sponsoring Manchester United and NTL has signed sponsorship deals with Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Glasgow Celtic as well as buying a 10 per cent stake in Glasgow Rangers. [25 Jul 2000]
Ananova out of sync with the future of the web?
Comment The Press Association (PA) developed a green-haired, female avatar called Ananova to deliver news, sports and entertainment information to visitors at http://www.ananova.com . Orange has bought a virtual newsreader for £95m. [06 Jul 2000]
Sports sites set to exercise their growth potential
News Sports related websites are set to increase their revenue growth because of their ability to harness multiple revenue streams, such as ecommerce, advertising and sponsorship. The report also stated online sales of sports merchandise is to increase... [03 Jul 2000]
Palm pays $80m for Anyday.com
News Anyday.com develops Web-based calendar products that can bring personal services - such as flight times, sports and entertainment postings - to its users. Palm computing has bought calendar technology company Anyday.com in a deal worth $80m. [01 Jun 2000]
