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The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has immortalized its multimillion-dollar domain name licensing deal on a set of postage stamps.

Antivirus software vendors Wednesday warned corporations to advise their employees about an e-mail borne computer virus, dubbed "Home Page," that points the victim's Web browser to a pornographic Web site when the e-mail attachment is opened.

Christchurch-based search engine company NBCi New Zealand says it is one of the few of US giant NBC Internet's (NBCi) operations not being closed down.

General Electric Co.'s National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) network Monday announced plans to bring its struggling Internet affiliate back in-house, making it the latest in a string of companies that are folding Web-based business units back into their regular operations.

AltaVista Co. announced Friday that it will cut 25 percent of its workforce and consolidate its four California offices into its Palo Alto headquarters.

Almost every day, Nicholas Butterworth wipes his brow in relief. In March, the CEO of MTVi, the Viacom -owned unit of MTV Networks, filed papers to hit the stock market in a public offering. But then came April's market turmoil, and the company put the IPO on hold indefinitely. Now, that looks like a wise move. "Our goal is to maximize shareholder value," says Butterworth. "If an IPO helps us accomplish that, that's a strategy we will pursue. If not, then it's not the right strategy."

To say Geoff Clendenning is entrepreneurial by nature -- as his corporate biography does -- really is an understatement. With three start-up companies already under his belt, the youthful co-founder and CEO of EPod Corp. is garnering clients and venture capital as he rapidly builds up his on-line marketing business.

To kick its e-business initiatives into high gear, GE told its unit chiefs to save their businesses by figuring out how to kill them

Two weeks after beating analyst estimates in its second-quarter earnings report, NBCi has laid off about 170 employees, or 20 percent of its staff, according to sources within the company.

Some executives like to conceive their company's future through strategic-planning exercises. Not Jack Welch. For him, strategic planning is too safe, too theoretical. Instead, Welch had his business units envision how the future could hurt them. He called the exercise Destroy Your Business (DYB).

CBS Corp. Tuesday attributed a first-quarter net loss of $38 million, or 5 cents per share, to $75 million it invested in its Internet companies and operations. Even so, the company beat Wall Street estimates of a loss of 7 cents per share.