Internet Economy
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MDC chief accuses unnamed people of wanting to undermine IAP
News MDC which was in the firing line recently after a local daily yesterday criticized its performance, hit back by accusing "unseen hands" of wanting to jeopardize the upcoming IAP meeting scheduled to begin this week.
New Sun exec to grow S'pore sales by more than 20%
News Sun Microsystems Pte Ltd's newly appointed head said the company is set to grow in sales by more than 20 percent this fiscal year.
Malaysian govt inches closer to 500 MSC firms goal
News The country's first licensed certification authority (CA), Digicert, became the 343rd Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status company today, and the government's goal of 500 such companies by 2003 a little closer to reality.
Emerging technologies need regulatory reform, experts say
News Now is the time for the government to step in and guide the United States' emerging technology sectors, Tom Friedman and others in Washington argue.
Tags: Policy and management, Revolution, Conference, Web Browser, Marc Andreessen, Chicago, Internet Economy, financial, leader, Internet
Web 2.0 Summit now courting clean-tech start-ups
News Conference theme reflects the "greening" of Silicon Valley, using the Web and tech to address environmental and social challenges.
Tags: Web 2.0, Green IT, Clean Technology, Conference, Tim O'Reilly, alternative energy, Internet economy, Web 2.0, leader, Silicon Valley
European IT chief backs Net neutrality
News In a speech made to a global forum on Internet governance, the EC's Viviane Reding says the Net neutrality debate is a 'political question to be answered by the people'.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Security, Net Neutrality, Internet economy, British Broadcasting Corp., network, European Commission, online piracy, Internet
Waxing optimistic on the Internet economy
News There may be portents of a recession at large, but Google's chief economist and others say e-commerce and VC funding are still holding their own.
Tags: Web 2.0, Venture capital, Internet advertising, E-business, Google Inc., E-commerce Sale, Sales, Advertisement, software, Internet Economy
Cisco Australia study cites healthy Net industry
News A Cisco Australia study has revealed that the Internet Economy is flourishing down under, with 55 percent of Australian companies contributing to the AU$28 billion (US$14.2 billion) a year industry.
Report: China sets up agency to manage online news
News China will set up a separate agency to manage online news, one of the most sensitive parts of the Internet economy to the Chinese government, Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po reported citing unnamed sources.
Net infrastructure spending to hit US$1.5 trillion in 2003
News Spending on Internet infrastructure, including purchases to increase bandwidth and the building of high speed fiber optic networks, will reach US$1.5 trillion in 2003, according to Nortel Networks.
More Internet firm failures to come
News More than 200 Internet companies have gone out of business in the past four to five years, according to Integral Capital Partners general partner Roger McNamee. The venture capitalist also said a "small multiple" of that number will fold up this year.
High-end grocer primes online efforts
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Tuesday declared 'Back the Net' day
News A San Francisco-based online marketing newsletter has declared Tuesday "Back the Net" day and has organized a series of events to demonstrate that surfers maintain confidence in the Web as an emerging medium.
AltaVista scraps free e-mail
News As the economy continues to dry up, the company is gradually lopping off costly features. One of the casualties: portal-like services.
Net venture a well-planned move, says TH Group head
News TH Group Bhd's decision to form a venture capital company to invest in Internet startups was a well-planned move to tap into a potentially huge market, said its managing director, Lei Lin Thai.
