Matt Carolan

SBC Communications and Yahoo! on Wednesday announced an alliance to provide co-branded broadband access to consumers in SBCs 13-state region, and dial-up service nationwide. New customers to the service, scheduled to roll out in 2002, will receive a special version of Yahoo! that will include WebCam functionality, multi-player games, enhanced parental controls and additional storage […]

Verizon Wireless will offer its initial public stock offering sometime before the middle of next year. Today Verizon Wireless filed an updated registration statement notifying the Securities and Exchange Commission of its intentions regarding the IPO. Verizon originally filed with the SEC in August of 2000, but held back on the IPO at that time […]

Microsoft Corp.s long-running antitrust battle with the federal government may soon be over. According to published reports, the software giant is close to a settlement with the Department of Justice. Details of the agreement are sketchy, but The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times report the preliminary agreement calls for a consent decree […]

Napster, the controversial online music service, has reached a settlement in principle in the class-action suit launched against it by music publishers and songwriters. In a news conference held late Monday, key executives on both sides of the dispute announced an agreement for songwriters and music publishers to license their music to Napster. The deal […]

Citing a “continuing decline in the advertising market” and “additional expenses incurred by its news-gathering operations, as well as costs in its various businesses associated with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks,” America Online on Monday forecast lower earnings for the coming year. AOL said it expects to “achieve full-year 2001 EBITDA growth in the […]

In the wake of the terrorist attacks that struck New York City, Internet World Fall 2001, scheduled for Manhattans Jacob Javits Center, has been postponed. The popular trade show was originally scheduled to run from October 1 – 5. It will now run from December 10 – 14. By moving Internet World Fall 2001 to […]

New Yorkers are jamming payphones on the streets of Manhattan in an effort to reach loved ones in the wake of a terrorist attack that has left cell phone networks crippled. Local media outlets are broadcasting images of dozens of people lining up on the streets of lower Manhattan, the area in which the World […]