eWEEK EDITORS

It all comes down to making the pieces work together, and thats exactly why integrators are looking at the planned merger of Ariba Inc. and Agile Software Corp. to fill a big gap in supply-chain management. Ariba, a business-to-business commerce software provider, last week announced plans to buy Agile, maker of collaboration software, in a […]

Sanjay Parthasarathy has the sales job of the decade: convince Microsoft developers, partners and key customers to buy into the software makers ambitious .Net vision of the Web. That vision was spelled out last year by company Chairman Bill Gates and President Steve Ballmer. It calls for the “creation of truly distributed Web services that […]

Federal Express didnt pay Tom Hanks to deliver its packages, wear its uniform or shoot scenes in its offices for his hit movie Cast Away. But the company sure is glad it granted Hanks request to do those things. A FedEx spokeswoman estimates that more than 54 million people worldwide have been exposed to the […]

Alan Cooper is a man on a mission. And though the fate of mankind may not hang in the balance, his success could lead to a dramatic improvement in the quality of life — especially for people whose VCRs still sport a flashing 12:00. Cooper, author of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, is out […]

Hal Krisbergh doesnt worry much about the future of interactive TV. For the founder of ITV pioneer WorldGate, the future is now. Krisbergh was so sure about the promise of TV interactivity that he left his executive position with General Instrument in 1994 to promote the new industry. He could see interactivity taking shape as […]

Debate has already started about the first big business-to-business merger of 2001, the $2.5 million combination of Ariba and Agile Software. UBS Warburg downgraded Ariba for giving up 23 percent of its own slumping stock in exchange for Agile. The investment house worries that the e-procurement software vendor paid a high price and may stumble […]

Its hard for any company to resist touting its services and what it can do—and understandably so. When youve built up a skill set, you want your clients, partners and competitors to know about it. When it comes to companies that facilitate e-business, however, a shift in emphasis is needed. More attention has to be […]

Get ready for the next wave of Internet startups. They wont call themselves dot-coms, and they wont behave like them. In fact, theyll have solid business models with realistic goals for profitability, or they wont get funded. And theyll probably have seasoned management teams that will help them stick around for years, if not decades. […]

When the Red Gorilla Internet site went blank in mid-October, its customers were stunned. They had no idea the time-tracking and billing service was in financial trouble and had no way to access the data they had stored there. Two weeks later, the site was back up, courtesy of OfficeTool.com, a virtual office ASP that […]

You can still see the faded high occupancy vehicle (HOV) diamonds painted on the left lane of Interstate 80 in New Jersey. If anyplace needed an HOV lane, it was the commuter-clogged expressway. But people hated it, and driver backlash forced the state to eventually abandon the experiment. IDC analyst Ann Bui sees similarities between […]