Articles by Jennifer M. Hampton

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), along with specialty financing company Medallion Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: TAXI), sent New York's first Internet-enabled taxicabs into the streets of the city Thursday The six month pilot program launched with 10 yellow and purple Yahoo! Internet taxicabs, each equipped with Palm, Inc.'s Palm VII handheld computer. Inter...

Seven of the largest investment banks worldwide, including The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), Merril Lynch (NYSE: MER), Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (NYSE: MWD), Salomon Smith Barney (NYSE: C), Credit Suisse First Boston (SWX:CSGN.SW), Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, and UBS Warburg (NYSE: UBS), announced an agreement Tuesday to create TheMarkets.com, a portal designed to provide information to investors...

An increasing number of Europeans are using the Web to look for a job, according to a survey released Monday by market research firm MMXI Europe In the UK, for example, the number of unique visitors to job-related Web sites more than doubled between January and July of this year -- with 684,000 unique visitors to job sites in July compared to 202,0...

Embattled crime news Web site APBnews.com, valued at more than $100 million (US$) six months ago, was purchased in a bankruptcy sale Thursday by SafetyTips.com for $575,000 cash SafetyTip's bid was significantly lower than the $950,000 deal the parties originally struck in mid-August. The site, which specializes in safety consulting and training, r...

Days after choosing a voluntary dismissal of their case from federal court due to the judge's "aggressive scheduling," the civil rights group suing Kozmo.com, Inc. has announced its plans to re-file their discrimination suit in Washington D.C. Superior Court instead The case alleges that Kozmo, an Internet service that delivers videos, snacks and o...

Further tightening its hold on the online travel market, Sabre Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: TSG) announced Monday that it will acquire GetThere, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTHR) in a deal worth $757 million (US$). Under the terms of the deal, GetThere will be combined with the Sabre Business Travel Solutions (BTS) unit to create an online travel platform for corporations and suppliers. The new Sabre company will operate under the GetThere name and will be based in Menlo Park, California, where GetThere is currently headquartered.

U.S. President Bill Clinton will not bar Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) from purchasing Internet service provider (ISP) Verio, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRIO), the administration announced Wednesday According to a White House statement, "any national security issues that may have been presented by this transaction have been resolved." ...

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and America Online (NYSE: AOL) encountered another obstacle to their proposed merger this week when the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) called for the release of confidential documents the companies filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) In letters filed with the FCC on Tuesday, Disney requested disclosure o...

Beleaguered Internet health network Drkoop.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: KOOP) announced a $20 million (US$) cash infusion and the appointment of new management Tuesday, just as it was disclosed that the company is under scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Drkoop.com acknowledged that it has been hit with several class action lawsu...

Citing horror author Stephen King's e-publishing efforts as proof that consumers are ready for digital publishing, electronic book provider NetLibrary, Inc. has filed to raise $82 million (US$) in an initial public offering Proceeds from the IPO, which will be handled by Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown and J.P. Morgan, will be...

A ruling from a federal judge that bars a Web site operator from distributing software to descramble DVD codes is being hailed as a major blow against video piracy. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan likened his ruling to "eliminating the source" of a contagious disease The suit was brought by The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) again...

General Electric (NYSE: GE) subsidiary Global eXchange Services (GXS) Monday announced the launch of Express Marketplace, a Web-based emporium open to any Internet user. According to GE, companies will have the ability to establish immediate, low-cost supply chain collaboration using only a Web browser "The key benefit of Express Marketplace is tha...

A French court has asked a panel of Internet security experts to find a way to bar Internet users in France from accessing Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) auctions of Nazi memorabilia Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance gave the three experts two months to come up with a means to block the U.S.-based Web auctions, which violate ...

Marking its second major e-commerce deal in just under a week, e-business applications provider Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN) announced an alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) Thursday to jointly sell, market and engineer e-commerce hardware and software products Vignette had already announced a pact with IBM to jointly market and se...

Continuing what has seemed like an endless cycle of reversals and revivals, e-tail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), faced more disheartening news Wednesday when an analyst's underperform rating sent its shares plummeting nearly seven percent to $30.75 (US$) Sanford J. Bernstein analyst Faye Landes issued the rating, and said it was based on focus g...

A U.S. court has stopped the state of Virginia from enforcing a 1999 law that criminalizes use of the Internet to sell or otherwise provide sexually explicit material that is "harmful to minors." U.S. District Court Judge J. Harry Michael, Jr. ruled that the law violates the First Amendment.

Citing privacy concerns, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) and online auction giant eBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) have halted auctions offering a mailing list of 200,000 U.S. investors to the highest bidder, the Wall Street Journal reported today Orlando, Florida-based Market Logistics Group, Inc. sought bids on both Yahoo! and eBay's sites for its investor m...

The family of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix has prevailed in a legal proceeding brought against the holder of the Internet address Jimihendrix.com, UN arbitrators announced Monday The Hendrix family filed a complaint in May against Denny Hammerton of Minneola, Florida, with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Media...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will head up this year's World E-Commerce Forum, at which global Internet security will be an issue for the first time, it was announced Friday The three-day World E-Com 2000 summit is slated to start October 18th in London. Michael Vatis, director of the FBI's computer crime investigation unit, the Nationa...

Financial services giant American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) and Ventro Corporation (Nasdaq: VNTR) announced an agreement Thursday to create MarketMile LLC, an Internet-based marketplace from which businesses will be able to purchase products and services MarketMile, which represents American Express' first independent e-commerce startup, will ini...