Market milestone: A new No. 1!
And it's not Microsoft. Or it wasn't for a while, anyway -- as Cisco Systems briefly became the world's most valuable company.
By Reuters
March 24, 2000 5:10 PM PT
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cisco Systems Inc. Friday topped Microsoft Corp. as the world's most valuable company, holding its lead through much of the session after briefly overtaking it for the first time Thursday.
On an official basis, on the Nasdaq, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) closed up 1-9/16 at a record 79-3/8 while Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)eased 3/16 to 111-11/16.
3/25/00 5:25:00 PM in Internet
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Ideas for your money
Online insurance, negotiating relocation packages and the ABC's of index funds
March 25, 2000: 11:07 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Before you accept a new job thousands of miles from home, consider your moving expenses and bargain for relocation costs. Learn how to shop for insurance on the Internet and prepare for the decimal prices soon to arrive at the NYSE and Nasdaq.
Check out these stories and more featured in our personal finance section this past week.
3/25/00 5:22:00 PM in Internet
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Noosh IPO Set at 4 Mln Shares
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Noosh Inc., a business-to-business e-commerce services provider to the printing industry, said on Friday it plans to sell four million shares of common stock for between $11-$13 a share in its initial public
3/25/00 5:20:00 PM in Internet
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Web Sites Team For Online Training Market
OneMain.com has reached a three-year co- branding and revenue sharing agreement with Columbus, Ohio-based MindLeaders.com, a Web-based learning services provider, to reap the "highly lucrative, rapidly growing market" of interactive online training.
This agreement gives OneMain.com's more than 700,000 mostly rural and small metropolitan customers access to a Web-based training library made up of more than 300 technical, desktop, and practical skills development courses.
"We're doing what we do best: aggregating content and providing our customers with a unique experience," OneMain.com spokesperson Daniel Greenfield told Washtech.com.
3/23/00 4:21:00 PM in Internet
Study Shows 300 Mil Worldwide Web Users
A major study of Web usage released today by a Canadian polling organization shows 300 million people are now wired in around the globe and that one billion will be online by 2005.
The survey, conducted by the Toronto-based Angus Reid Group, shows Canada second only to the US in terms of Web usage, but European and Japanese users lead in employing wireless Internet devices such as Web-enabled pagers and palm computers.
The study of 28,374 people in 34 countries representing a total population of 900 million, conducted at a reported cost of $1 million, suggests one billion people worldwide will be using the Internet by 2005 and as many as 150 million more people are planning to connect yet this year.
3/23/00 4:19:00 PM in Internet
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Web Offers Few Riches for Poor
Content: Despite gains in access, study finds dearth of useful material for people with low incomes or limited English skills.
By JUBE SHIVER JR., Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON--The digital divide may be narrowing between haves and have-nots in terms of access, but experts say the gap in content is enormous.
A study released Wednesday found that at least 50
3/17/00 12:20:00 PM in Internet
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Free internet access
Following the announcement by the Californian firm AltaVista that it is to scrap telephone charges for UK internet users, Mark Tran looks at the issue of access charges to the web
AltaVista announces 'freephone' net revolution
Comment, 6 March: transforming the net economy
3/12/00 1:53:00 PM in Internet
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The Critics: Internet
James Ledbetter, a regular columnist for CJR, is the New York bureau chief of The Industry Standard, a magazine covering the Internet industry, and was the media critic for The Village Voice.
One of the dreams of the Internet was that it would allow almost anyone to become a publisher. It's debatable whether or not that dream will ever be meaningfully realized, but it certainly seems that anyone who ever wanted to be a media critic can now do it easily online.
There are hundreds, and probably thousands of sites on the Internet that republish mainstream media snippets, often with comment and analysis. The better known Webzines, such as Slate and Salon, approach the task with familiar professionalism reminiscent of print media, but a wide variety of more obscure sites offer individual takes on media coverage that range from crude to erudite.
3/12/00 1:51:00 PM in Internet
Will the Content Middlemen Perish ... or Dominate?
What's the end game for Internet media companies? Ever since the AOL Time Warner deal, I've been obsessed with figuring out what the next generation of companies who rely on attracting audiences with content will look like. Despite the surfeit of research reports and predictions, there is no clear roadmap. Why? Because no one today knows that the digital landscape will look like in five years.
3/12/00 1:50:00 PM in Internet
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Local Internet Food Business Goes On-line
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000--Chef In A Box, a Minneapolis-based Internet restaurant (http://www.chefinabox.com) selling partially prepared meals to make home and party dining tasty, simple, and convenient, went live in the Twin Cities today, supported by on-line, radio, and e-mail promotions.
3/9/00 3:18:00 PM in Internet
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