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When Insurance.com Insurance Agency LLC went looking for a content management application, the company decided the ideal candidate would be standards-based, to integrate with data from a wide variety of partners, and would be based on popular development tools, so the company wouldnt get locked into proprietary or complex code. Insurance.com, of Newton, Mass., provides […]

Interactive Weeks third annual Interactive 500 ranks companies by the amount of revenue generated from their Web operations, based on online sales over the four quarters beginning July, 1, 2000 and ending June 30, 2001. Our listing includes public and private companies conducting business during the 12-month period. If a company did not close a […]

The dot-com crash and the downturn in the economy may have left consumers and businesses with little appetite for online trading, but industry analysts say customers remain hungry for financial service providers that can offer a variety of services. This has not been a great year for online brokerage firms. Online traders lost 18 percent […]

To see just how bad the climate is for online publishing and new media, look no further than the bottom lines of most of the major players. Bertelsmann Multimedia Group posted a $261 million loss for the year. CNet Networks lost $1.4 billion in the third quarter. Walt Disney Internet Group experienced a $142 million […]

Piracy Is on the Rise The number of web sites offering pirated software has more than doubled in the last year and will likely continue to climb, according to a study released by Websense, a company specializing in Internet usage software. The study showed there are more than 5,400 sites containing pirated software—known as “warez” […]

Hidden in the hoopla over the proposed merger of North Americas two satellite broadcasters is a possible pitch that might get the deal past regulators: Combining EchoStar Communications DISH Network with General Motors/Hughes Electronics DirecTV will add momentum to broadband Internet services. Instead of focusing on the $25.8 billion deal to create the second-largest pay-TV […]

Consumers paint a pretty picture … Good news for enterprises with video and other broadband-specific applications on their Web sites. According to Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., in New York, 41 percent of wired U.S. households, or 35.1 million, will connect to the Internet over broadband by 2006. Thats up from just 5.2 million, or 9 […]

When it comes to electronic publishing, Dow Jones & Co. does what nearly all its competitors cant — charge for content and make money. Thats because the company has been in the profit-from-content business for 119 years. Its flagship, The Wall Street Journal, and the Dow Jones Newswires are so integrated into the fabric of […]

This was the year cyberspace retailers came down to earth — either falling hard, or landing deals with their brick-and-mortar counterparts. As dot-coms bombed, savvy survivors adjusted to a new reality: The Internet is just one of three important sales channels, the other two being stores and catalogs. But for retailing giants with scores of […]

General Motors will launch its newest BuyPower site in Spain by the end of the month, making that country the 26th nation to have a GM consumer portal and keeping the auto giant on target to have its Web sites deployed in 40 countries by New Years Day. GM has been the most aggressive automaker […]

Ethernet — which first broke the bounds of the local office, then zipped past the metro area — has now darted across the Atlantic Ocean. Storm Telecommunications is signing up multinational enterprises that have been lured by the simple familiarity of end-to-end Ethernet, connecting offices in London to Amsterdam, Netherlands; Frankfurt, Germany; New York; and […]