Stories about: Internet Ventures

Britain's online media community had its day at Parliament today, urging ministers to regulate the BBC's Internet business to give them a fighting chance.

Companies are dividing IS staffs to better compete in the Internet race. Their Web teams may be cool, but they better stay connected to their legacy pals.

The ability to stay financially afloat has proved quite a challenge in recent months for Internet companies, particularly for streaming radio stations, with youth station Bigfatradio.com becoming the latest casualty.

BANGALORE, INDIA (10/10/2000) - E4e Inc., positioned as a technology holding company for startups offering Internet-based infrastructure services, Tuesday launched a Bangalore arm as part of its international expansion strategy.

Once the smoke clears from Chase Manhattan Corp.'s US$31 billion stock acquisition last week of J.P. Morgan & Co., Chase will face significant challenges in pulling together the IT empires of the soon-to-be former rivals, clarifying the future of a major outsourcing agreement, and rationalizing its business redundancies, said industry analysts.

Climb to the second floor of Staples Inc.'s spacious headquarters in Framingham, Mass., and you encounter two identical doors. Choose the one on the right, and you enter a traditional IS department with symmetrical gray cubicles, programmers and systems analysts working quietly at their desks or strolling intently down hallways. The tapping of keyboards interrupts a hum from the fluorescent lighting.

They have names like National Hog Farmer and Home Textiles Today. They're accused of being too cozy with the industries they cover, which supply the advertising. Their reporters don't appear on Charlie Rose. No wonder trade publications are often viewed as the dowdy stepsisters of consumer magazines, reliably churning out useful but dull copy while their glamorous siblings get all the attention.

Drkoop.com is dead. Long live Drkoop.com.

U.S. Hispanics are getting another Web-based tool for making buying decisions. Livra.com SA, which runs a consumer-oriented Web site for some countries in Latin America and Europe, is launching a version of the site for the U.S. Hispanic market.

Wedged between Appalachia and the Great Smoky Mountains, Kingsport, Tenn., doesn't look like ground zero in the new economy. But it's as good a place as any to see that e-commerce isn't just about selling books.