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SEC Charges Former Critical Path Execs with Fraud

The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission's investigation of fraud at e-mail services firm Critical Path has yielded charges against three former company executives for participating in a plan to fraudulently bolster financials in 2000. Two of the accused have agreed to settle the case ...

DoubleClick Settles Probe with $450K Payout

Online advertising giant DoubleClick has announced it will pay US$450,000 and revamp its business practices to end a privacy investigation launched nearly three years ago by the attorneys general of 10 states ...

Texas Instruments, Dongbu Talks Fail

Negotiations have broken down between Texas Instruments and Korean chipmaker-for-hire Dongbu Electronics, dashing Dongbu's hopes oflanding a US$400 million annual contract with the technology giant ...

Microsoft To Offer MSN Version for Mac OS X

Microsoft has stepped up what promises to be an interesting battle with AOL by planning to offer its MSN subscription service to users of Apple's Mac OS X operating system ...

AOL Time Warner To Buy AT&T Stake for $9B

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in Time Warner Entertainment (TWE) division for as much as US$9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends speculation about the unit's immediate future ...

AOL Time Warner To Buy AT&T Stake for $9B

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in Time Warner Entertainment (TWE) division for as much as US$9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends speculation about the unit's immediate future ...

AOL Time Warner To Buy AT&T Stake for $9B

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in Time Warner Entertainment (TWE) division for as much as US$9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends speculation about the unit's immediate future ...

The Half-Life of High-Tech PR Pros

Just as MTV changed the face of music, technology has resculpted the public relations landscape, improving some aspects of the field and creating a number of challenges as well ...

Report: Online Sales Spike, Led by Computers, Travel

As competition heated up during the summer, both the travel and computer hardware sectors saw an uptick in online sales, according to comScore Networks, which has purchased Web traffic measurement firm Media Metrix ...

Nasdaq Cuts Ties with Japanese Exchange

Sounding the death knell for its hopes of providing round-the-clock trading for investors, Nasdaq has halted plans to move forward with Nasdaq Japan, saying it will withdraw completely from the troubled effort by October 15th ...

AOL Probes Possible Revenue Misstatement

AOL Time Warner has admitted that three deals involving payment to its AOL unit from third parties, amounting to US$49 million, might have been erroneously declared as advertising revenue ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Are Tech Companies Fraud Magnets?

The high-profile financial crimes at companies like WorldCom and Enron might lead some to wonder whether high-tech companies are magnets for fraud ...

IBM Discloses 15,000 Layoffs

While layoff announcements at IBM have been sporadic, the company reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it has pink-slipped more than 15,000 employees, fully 5 percent of its workforce ...

AOL Uses Netscape for Mac OS X

America Online has snubbed rival Microsoft by using Netscape browser technology in the newest iteration of its software for Mac OS X, a move that could indicate the company might eventually oust Microsoft from its PC offerings as well ...

WorldCom ‘Misplaces’ Another $3.3 Billion

As though bankruptcy and $3.8 billion in "overstated earnings" were not bad enough, WorldCom has found that another $3.3 billion was improperly reported between 1999 and the first quarter of 2002 ...

AOL Slapped with Shareholder Lawsuit

As if the immediate future did not look dim enough for AOL Time Warner, a group of the company's shareholders has filed what they hope will become a class-action suit against the company for allegedly misrepresenting revenue reaped from online advertising ...

Japan’s Mandatory ID Network Draws Criticism

Despite protests by critics, Japan has deployed a mandatory identification network that requires each Japanese citizen to have an 11-digit identification number, similar to the Social Security numbers assigned to U.S. citizens ...

Can Fun Still Sell E-Commerce?

Online retailers have learned that buyers are much more serious about e-commerce these days and are less likely to be induced to purchase anything advertised online with gimmicks, trumped-up promises or wild graphics ...

Qwest Sells Off ASP Assets

Qwest Communications has agreed to sell its ASP (application service provider) assets to Corio, Inc. for US$15 million in a deal that should be completed in late September. Under terms of the agreement with Qwest, Corio picks up the ASP operations of thetelecommunications company's Qwest CyberSolutions subsidiary ...

Pressplay Expands Streaming, Download Capabilities

In an attempt to beef up its online music service, Pressplay has unveiled version 2.0, which, according to the company, will give users greater freedom in listening to, downloading and storing music ...

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