eWEEK EDITORS

With earnings under pressure, Eastman Kodak is launching a major marketing campaign to try to remind the business world that the company has gone digital. This week, Kodak will run print ads in the Financial Times, Forbes, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, as well as television spots in Boston, Manhattan and […]

Only Silicon Valley could have produced TechNet, an amalgam of fund raising and influence peddling born during the infancy of the dot-com boom. Founded in mid-1997, TechNet was different from the beginning — a reflection of its roots in hyperkinetic-yet-casual Silicon Valley, where flux is revered as a bedrock value. The organization aimed to ingratiate […]

LAW Oracle, Ellison Hit by Lawsuits Oracle and its chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison, face more lawsuits that claim he and other company officials artificially pumped up the companys stock by overstating the success of its products, then sold shares just before issuing an earnings warning that sent the shares plummeting. Last week, a San […]

International Data Corp.Soft-quoted analyst, Dan Kusnetzky, likes to invoke the Dilbert analogy when discussing Novell these days. He figures that if Dilbert ran the show, Novell might be in better shape. The venerable companys flagship product, NetWare, remains highly regarded by the Dilbert types out there—the in-the-trenches network experts. However, good technology is no longer […]

Back when 10-gigabit-per-second and 40-Gbps speeds were just a glimmer in an engineers eye, no one worried much about bits bumping into one another on wavelengths of light. But now that 10-Gbps traffic is the ascendant norm, and 40 Gbps is next years battleground, physicists are pushing the limits of just how fast information can […]

The current dot-com shakeout has thrown a lot of assumptions—and many related financial arrangements—about how business is best conducted through the Web out the window. Amid the boom of exploding business paradigms, one assumption holds true: Without an effective financial service backbone, e-commerce cannot thrive. We dont have it. Why not? The short answer is […]

Merisel, on a downward slide ever since it overspent on Datago affiliates years ago, is back on the map as far as the stock market goes. The companys stock hit almost $2 recently after falling to about 12 cents. Whats responsible for the upswing? A reverse stock split. The companys board of directors agreed last […]

Ted Waitt woke up one morning in his mansion in La Jolla, Calif., and decided he had seen enough. The folksy, ponytailed 38-year-old entrepreneur — who famously founded Gateway in 1985 in an Iowa farmhouse — returned as the companys chief executive and would-be savior two months ago to try to the halt its downhill […]

Go.com Stays The Walt Disney Co. said last week that it will keep Go.com alive after all. In January, Disney Internet Group said it would lay off 400 employees and close the money-losing Web portal. However, now the company plans to continue to operate Go, which will display headlines and link to other Disney sites, […]

Last weeks bloodbath on the Nasdaq and Dow exchanges wasnt the official start of a bear market. It was part of a series of bear maulings that will continue until we return to a more natural financial picture. What were witnessing correlates quite well with the behavior of real bears—the kind with fur, teeth and […]