Cramlington Community High in Northumberland encourages parents to e-mail teachers to discuss children's progress, and the Cardinal Wiseman Catholic Technology College in Birmingham has a website with an "e-portal" for parents.
E-Trade is discounting fees to the likes of Microsoft, Boeing and Oracle for the right to steer 1 million employees seeking information on their stock options through the main E-Trade portal.
In a statement issued last week, the company said its dependence on subscription revenue will drop as revenue from online advertisements and transactions "pour in" for its recently announced Pacfusion.com e-commerce portal.
In the fall of 1998 E-Trade rolled out its first financial planning portal, Destination E-Trade.
In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.
In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.
The Softbank empire includes a 27% stake in E-Trade, 28% of top Web portal Yahoo and 85% ownership of ZDNet.
During a recent monthlong Infiniti promotion Nissan recorded 19 million online ad impressions, including 4.1 million Infiniti searches through Internet portal sites, 1.9 million e-mail come-ons, 1.1 million unique visitors to its Web site, 5, 500 Internet leads to dealers and 681 requests for preapproved financing.
The firm recently launched an initiative called Project 60, a 60-day-long blitzkrieg to bring free E-mail, search, forums and other basic portal functions to its Netcenter site.
And Agency.com is working with London-based Carphone Warehouse, the largest European wholesaler of mobile phones, to create a customizable wireless portal that delivers weather forecasts, local news and e-commerce services to wireless subscribers.
It also has some snazzy new features to make searching easier, and an extra window pane that stays open no matter where you surf to display, for example, e-mail, stock quotes and other information from your favored portal site.
This Federal Express disciple, who became chief executive of E-Trade in March 1996 (just as it was launching its online trading portal), insists the firm has moved beyond the online brokerage business to a new battlefront: unified online finance.
Microsoft's New Year's buyout of the most popular free E-mail provider, HotMail, is another sure sign that the Redmond giant is taking its portal strategy very seriously indeed.
E-GM will lead the charge with a dramatic expansion of the OnStar technology, including a voice-activated portal called MyOnStar Virtual Advisor.
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