Though he originally signed on to back an internet-only news outlet, with Brown at the helm, Diller became convinced that a hybrid play was the way to go, to the point that, when the merger with Newsweek seemed to have fallen through, he told analysts IAC would buy or start its own print magazine.
Telecom provider Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people) and Internet service provider EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people) announced today that they will revise their alliance forged in 1998.
Since the beginning of 2003, Kennedy has had long positions in Indian portal Rediff.com (nasdaq: REDF - news - people ) and Israeli ISP Internet Gold (nasdaq: IGLD - news - people ).
These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco (nyse: TCK - news - people ), Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications (nyse: SJR - news - people ) and Suncor Energy.
Debt relief for Africa and the unassailable growth of the internet were supposed-good news stories that Panorama was able to investigate with customary vigour.
Many wondered what fate would become of traditional media companies like CBS ( CBS) given the explosion of Internet-based content, news and social media over the past decade.
In the personal computer category, Amazon said the Apple MacBook, Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) Internet Tablet PC and HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC were strong sellers.
In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Explorer.
But since EarthLink will have to cover the additional cost of leasing local lines, the product is likely to be more expensive than the more traditional VoIP services offered by cable companies such as Comcast (nyse: CMCSA - news - people ) Internet voice vendors such as Vonage , and EarthLink itself.
Our country is consumed by anti-airline hysteria, brought on by the rise of the Internet and Twitter and 24-hour news even though, in reality, U.S. airline operational performance has improved dramatically in recent years.
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Atlanta-based EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ), the No. 3 Internet service provider in the U.S., is now offering wireless Internet service to not just Blackberry and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) pagers, but also to devices based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) PocketPC platform.
He is both an anomaly -- most voters live much more "on the grid, " own TVs and follow news on the Internet -- and exactly the type of voter both campaigns are pouring millions of dollars into wooing.
All of these are challenges to journalism, but we should not lose hope in the potential of the Internet to provide high-quality news.
Naomi Seligman Steiner, deputy director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says the rise of the Internet and 24-hour cable news has empowered the public with an "insatiable appetite" for scandal.
Launched in the days before the internet and 24-hour rolling news, the aim of Ceefax was to give viewers access to the latest news, sports results and weather as soon as it came into the BBC's newsrooms.
It is one of the most popular free downloads for Firefox, the rival browser to Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Internet Explorer.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Internet computing strategy.
Indeed, even putting elections aside, reports of denial-of-service attacks, stolen passwords and other cases of Internet invasion are regular occurrences in the news -- and they've affected major corporations, government agencies and even security companies, Jefferson observes.
No one raised questions about the current level of Microsoft's own competitiveness--or its bruising battle with Internet king Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ).
Meltwater had argued that it provides a specialized news-related Internet search engine that allows its 4, 000 U.S. customers to search for and receive information about news items relevant to their businesses.
This transforms the car into a virtual office, giving motorists not only dull information such as how fast they are travelling, but also e-mail, the Internet, news services and navigation functions.
The internet is a-buzz with the news.
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One example: Exodus Communications (nasdaq: EXDS - news - people), a provider of Internet hosting services.
Crosspoint Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners both invested in Foundry Networks (nasdaq: FDRY - news - people), a maker of Internet switching gear.
The service, currently called the Internet Security News Network, will look a lot like Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) Cable News Network, except that it will be broadcast exclusively over the Internet.
It's practically a given that a Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) executive would run the struggling Internet giant and that Yahoo!
Some reckon BSkyB is trying to protect its pay-TV business against the looming threat of television over Internet, including BT (nyse: BT - news - people )'s forthcoming "Vision" IPTV product and the newly enlarged cable concern NTL (nasdaq: NTLI - news - people ), which has added rival Telewest and the cell provider Virgin Mobile.
Recently, Kennedy added Pacific Internet (nasdaq: PCNTF - news - people ) to his portfolio.
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