Articles by Robert Conlin

Wednesday, May 12 is day to remember for Lycos. First came the announcement that the planned merger between Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) and USA Networks unraveled like a ball of yarn after Lycos shareholders roundly rejected the deal. Then came the announcement that the two had salvaged some pre-merger work with the announcement that Ticketmaster Online - City Search -- 61 % owned by USA Networks -- and Lycos reached a distribution and content agreement...

Since it first hit the online street back in 1996, TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM) has been a media favorite in offering financial news with attitude. Unlike many of its bottom line, straight-faced competitors, TheStreet.com seems to revel in lacing its comprehensive financial news with witty commentary, bombast and bluster and occasional irreverence ...

Many frequent-flyers would likely say that they deserve a reward for flying America's domestic network these days, and an Internet promotional company which offers perks to do so might be the first to agree with them Netcentives, a San Francisco, California-based provider of Internet direct-marketing and promotional campaigns announced Monday that ...

Cementing an existing deal that has helped lead to one of the Internet's most heavily-visited sites, America Online (NYSE: AOL) and five leading U.S. banks announced multi-year marketing agreements Monday The agreements make Bank of America, Bank One, Union Bank of California, Citibank and Wells Fargo key components in AOL's Banking Center, itself ...

If CDNow, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNW) executives were to play a tune to summarize their latest financial statement, it could be "Both Sides Now," by Joni Mitchell On one side, the company announced that revenues spiked up 128% in the first quarter to $22.8 million (US$). On the flip side was the news that losses increased to $19.1 million for the quarter, ...

MIT's Sloan School of Management is calling it "a cross between the Oscars and the Internet," which would make their first annual MIT Sloan E-Commerce Awards a true revenge of the nerds The prestigious Cambridge, Massachusetts-based business school announced the finalists for their awards Wednesday, and, not unexpectedly, the roster reads like a Wh...

They don't claim to have struck the mother lode, but MiningCo.com executives (Nasdaq: MINE) were optimistic Wednesday, when they announced that first quarter revenues reached $2.4 million (US$). This represents a 15-fold increase over its 1998 first-quarter figures, and a 10% increase over 1998 fourth-quarter figures However, the company also annou...

In an announcement that is sure to spark the home fires at homebid.com's headquarters, the company announced Tuesday that it has received a $25 million (US$) infusion from three venture capital firms The world's first online real estate auction company said that Chase Capital Partners, Accel Partners and Canaan Partners all ponied up the money, whi...