Archive for ‘2000’

Rumor: AOL-EU approves merger on Wednesday

Rumor: AOL-EU approves merger on Wednesday

The European Commission is said on Wednesday its conditional approval for the merger of AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) and Time Warner give. “This will be adjusted with some restrictions on Wednesday,” said a source from the EU. The company had made to the Commission last month approved a series of concessions to obtain the [...]

Chip industry is booming by 2002

Chip industry is booming by 2002

The semiconductor industry is booming, according to forecasts of a market research company until 2002. Dataquest indicates in his five-year forecast that sales would grow this year by 36.9 percent to $ 231.6 billion. 2001 a further rise is forecast by 27.5 percent. This will increase the company’s own statement, which was previously located at [...]

Cert puts pressure on software producers

Cert puts pressure on software producers

The CERT (Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team) has imposed upon itself a new security policy. The crisis team will give manufacturers of software is no longer unlimited time to plug a security hole. Rather, we will publish a known problem with a program after 45 days, regardless of whether the programmers have made [...]

Hackers block Milosevic’s bank accounts

Hackers block Milosevic’s bank accounts

Serbian opposition activists have intentionally caused a computer crash, in order to block the accounts of ousted dictator Slobodan Milosevic. This was evident in the process, large amounts of money deducted from government accounts. It has been reported, the economist Mladjan Dinkic. Observers expect that he is the head of the Yugoslav National Bank. The [...]

For the first time Army contract to private company

For the first time Army contract to private company

In awarding the biggest contract in the U.S. Navy has obtained a private company awarded the contract. Electronic Data Systems (EDS) will create for almost seven billion dollars in a network that hundreds of Navy and Marine Corps integrated computers into a single seamless system. The project is considered groundbreaking for the communication between military [...]

Bullying takes Yahoo News

Bullying takes Yahoo News

news service from Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) were briefly today to read three opinion instead of news posts. In one of them was gepöbelt against Jewish institutions. Yahoo responded immediately and took the messages from the network after discovery. Yahoo gets its news reports, among others, n-tv. The spokeswoman for the news channel, Catrin [...]

Freenet: No merger talks with Wanadoo

Freenet: No merger talks with Wanadoo

Freenet (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: FRN) has distanced himself from reports that the Mobilcom daughter talking about a merger with Wanadoo. It accepts that as “Germany’s third-largest online service” is currently examining the possibility of a strategic cooperation at international level. They are currently talking “with several large international players,” said Freenet. This act is expressly [...]

Ebookers assumes Flightbookers

Ebookers assumes Flightbookers

Ebookers has announced to take over the British company Flightbookers. Through the deal, the online retailer access to approximately 200,000 new customers. The trip is one of the dealers profitable Internet Companys. The share of Ebookers.com (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: Eb6) has risen in early trading at about one seventh. It was listed at a premium [...]

Freenet acquires network of experts

Freenet acquires network of experts

Freenet (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: FRN) has acquired 75.1 percent of the N-tree AG. Mobilcom subsidiary secured while an option on the remaining shares. N-tree is a provider of expert network meome.de. The site has claims to 1.5 million page impressions a month. The range is created from 350 professionals who write for their respective posts [...]

IPO: Adpepper listed at an issue price

IPO: Adpepper listed at an issue price

IPO Adpepper (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: APM) was successful for the artist a zero number. The broker first fixed the price of the shares at 17.50 euros. Within a short time but after the paper was at 17 € and noted that the exact subscription price. The issue price was at the upper end of the [...]

NCI-Chief: Telecom has quasi-monopoly on flat rates

NCI-Chief: Telecom has quasi-monopoly on flat rates

NCI has again the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) for the preliminary charge made out of his flat. Although the company’s success in the past had been involved from the NCI, “recently, however, opinions diverged substantially apart, so that the cooperation is now finished first once,” says NCI spokesperson Klaus Rohwer. Reports that the [...]

Mobile phone manufacturers are vying for teens

Mobile phone manufacturers are vying for teens

The mobile phone manufacturers are increasingly turning to teenagers in recent years to boost the sale of their products. Multi-digit millions companies invest in sports events, music tours, fashion and new media. The companies apparently rely on studies that are mobile relative loyal buyers of its brand. That the industry magazine reported w & v. [...]

AOL Time Warner appear before EU approval

AOL Time Warner appear before EU approval

The task of the merger plans by EMI and Time Warner have cleared the way for a merger of AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) and Time Warner. This is the view of analysts and experts of the EU authorities in Brussels scene. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported at all, the Competition Commission have already signed the [...]

Teles services at Vobis

Teles services at Vobis

Berlin manufacturer of ISDN products, Teles, and the PC retail chain Vobis have signed a cooperation agreement: customers can order all future services and products from them, via the branches of the chain. There are services in the three areas of Web Hosting / E-commerce, high speed access (via skyDSL or T-DSL) and web-learning are [...]

Scratches in dispute over Apple’s cube

Scratches in dispute over Apple’s cube

for days in the U.S. want the voices are not silenced, by the massive cracks, scratches and gaps in the G4 “Cube” by Apple (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: APC) reported. The company has already denied earlier this week and said normal processing of the seams. ZDNet But the cube has more detail under the microscope: There [...]