- Wed Feb 16 2000 CMGI, StarMedia join on free Latin American ISP
The people who gave AltaVista and Excite@Home subscribers free Internet services are bringing the idea to Latin America.
- Wed Mar 4 1998 Short Take: Bay Area news media joining forces
San Francisco Bay Area news outlets the San Jose Mercury News, KPIX Channel 5, and Contra Costa Newspaper's Hot Coco site announced a partnership to cross-promote their content through the Web and TV. The sites will incorporate audio and video news clips of news, sports, and weather coverage, and KPIX footage will be featured on Mercury Center. In addition, all three properties will trade advertising.
- Sat Mar 14 2009 Scoble's latest adventure: Building 43
Robert Scoble, ubiquitous in seemingly all forms of new media, is joining hosting company Rackspace and starting an online "community" for people "fanatical about the Internet," TechCrunch reports.
- Mon Mar 13 2000 Idealab draws $1 billion in investments
High-tech and finance companies including BancBoston Capital, Dell Computer, Sumitomo, T. Rowe Price Associates and 24/7 Media join founder Bill Gross in the Series D round of financing.
- Tue Jul 28 1998 Short Take: Lucent buys MassMedia
Lucent said it has acquired MassMedia Communications, a privately held, start-up developer of network interoperability software, including products that manage connections across data, voice, and video networks. Purchase terms were not disclosed. Andrew Patka, the president and founder of MassMedia, will join Lucent as director of signaling applications and call control within the data networking systems division. MassMedia was founded in 1995 and employs 12 people.
- Thu Nov 1 2007 Rocketboom and beyond
Amanda Congdon's surprise departure from the show has caused quite a buzz in the blogosphere. But the news also shined a spotlight on both the perils and potential of video blogging. Will v-blogging d...
- Wed Mar 17 2004 Lexar Media sells miniSD worldwide
Lexar Media has begun selling its miniSD flash memory cards worldwide, the company announced on Wednesday in Hannover, Germany, at the CeBit trade show.
- Fri Jan 16 2004 Salon: Friends in high places
- Wed Aug 27 2008 Oracle names new chief financial officer
Oracle names Jeffrey Epstein as its new chief financial officer, marking its fourth CFO since long-time bean counter Jeff Henley retired four years ago.




