Monthly Archives: April 2001
Valued Asset: User Lists
As internet failures accelerate, a battle has heated up over what happens to one of their most prized assets: customer lists.Today, lists containing customer...
Operator No. 9: April 23, 2001
Its All YoursTheres nothing like tax time to get investors to face the fact that the whole dot-com phenomenon was one big pyramid scheme....
Giving Customers More Say
March, they say, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Last month, Rocky Wiggins, vice president and CIO at AirTran...
Directing Business Via The Indirect Channel
As more software vendors move toward an e-commerce model, resellers may worry about being excluded from their partners distribution channels—with good reason. In an...
E-tailers See Some Light
Some e-tailers are bucking the trend of declining revenue in these difficult times by combining physical stores or other retail channels with an online...
Perot Systems Corp.: Stepping Into Bigger Shoes
Not withstanding the challenge of having to fill a pair of big shoes, compounded by running a company amidst an economic downturn, Ross Perot...
Fast Breaks Newsfront: April 23, 2001
Eat Crowe?Weeks after Level 3 Communications CEO Jim Crowe predicted his company would hit $2.5 billion in revenue in 2000, Level 3 restated its...
WhISPers: April 23, 2001
Crash and BurnWhISPers Department of Bankruptcy Proceedings hears Colo.com is laying off salespeople and going with an agent program, a last-ditch effort to avoid...
Some Earnings are Sparkling
Amid the swirl of bankruptcies, massive layoffs and earnings warnings that are whipping around their competitors, some technology services firms reported favorable Q1 earnings...
Siebel Vows to Battle for CRM Space
Tom Siebel, CEO of CRM software giant Siebel Systems Inc., laid down the gauntlet to smaller competitors during his companys first-quarter-earnings call last week."That...