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RSS yahoo!Barnes and Noble signs exclusive deals with AOL, Compuserve and Lycos
News However a spokesman for the company pointed out that Amazon has similar link-ups with Yahoo, Excite and LineOne which are also strong Internet brands in Europe. bol.com - the online division of Barnes and Noble - has... [17 Nov 1998]
ADNet delivers audio banner ads
News ADNet International has reached an agreement with Infoseek and Yahoo to deliver sound-enabled banner adverts on their portal sites, according to US reports. Using ADNet's Active Banner media server, users will be able to... [30 Oct 1998]
Web portals team up to ward off privacy laws
News Portal sites such as Altavista, Excite, Infoseek and Yahoo have pledged $3m worth of their banner advertising to the campaign, which is co-sponsored by Truste. Nine of the World's largest Web sites have teamed up in a... [07 Oct 1998]
Lycos targets SMEs with business portal
News Yahoo! Although there's no shortage of Web sites dedicated to small businesses, Lycos has published what it bills as a 'unique and extensive' Web guide for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK and Ireland. [30 Sep 1998]
Yahoo ties up AT&T deal
News Yahoo has signed up AT&T as a partner for an Internet service called Yahoo Online Powered by AT&T. The move comes after the Internet company failed to launch a similar service with MCI before it was... [24 Sep 1998]
Disney and Infoseek ready to take on premier portals
News This would suggest the portal will be more popular that Netscape's Netcenter and Microsoft's MSN, although it would still trail behind leaders, Yahoo and AOL. Infoseek and The Walt Disney Company launched a Web portal... [22 Sep 1998]
In brief: Yahoo predicts rosy future
News Yahoo said it expects operating margins to rise to between 30 and 36 per cent by the third quarter of next year, from its current level of 22 per cent. Chief executive, Tim Koogle, said he plans to use the strength of... [18 Sep 1998]
Yahoo and MCI untie the knot
News Yahoo and MCI have agreed to end their jointly-branded online service after just six months. The service, Yahoo Online, offered Internet access and online content to users. Yahoo's chief... [15 Sep 1998]
Yahoo takes action against message board users
News After a series of high profile lawsuits against users accused of posting malicious rumours to deliberately affect the stock price of companies, Yahoo has taken measures to name and shame malcontentents. [15 Sep 1998]
Internet company fights back over Yahoo gossip
News A US-based retail trade exchange, Itex, is suing 100 people for allegedly posting defamatory comments about the company on Yahoo's financial message board. One Yahoo user claimed the Itex management were... [10 Sep 1998]
Malicious Net rumour sends AgriBioTech shares tumbling
News As agricultural firm, AgriBioTech, saw its share price plunge 25 per cent this week after unfounded negative comments about the company were posted on a Yahoo message board. The incident has called into question whether... [28 Aug 1998]
In brief: Excite to offer free UK email
News The company said this is the first time UK users have been offered such a service, although free email services based in the US have previously been available from organisations like Yahoo and Hotmail. [07 Aug 1998]
Fishmeal company increases Web portfolio
News It plans to use them to create a portal site - at zap.com - to rival similar offerings from Yahoo and Netscape. Zapata - a fishmeal and sausage skin manufacturer - continued its Internet expansion yesterday with the... [06 Aug 1998]
Germans lead Europe in ecommerce field
News They should be building deals with the European equivalents of portals such as Yahoo and Lycos. German consumers have adopted ecommerce faster than shoppers in any other country, according to a report released yesterday... [31 Jul 1998]
Web portals: here today, gone tomorrow?
Comment Compiling content is not a new concept - Yahoo has been doing it for years - but recently, companies like Yellow Pages and Netscape have found that it solves a number of business problems, and takes them one step closer... [29 Jul 1998]
