There are dark days ahead for California and the Pacific Northwest.The CIA partners with SafeWeb in order to mask its movements.B2M's: Back to Mom's and other examples of stupid marketing jargon.E-commerce sites get rid of inventory by bartering with each other.IBM
Marketers invade Napster users' hard-drives.Silicon Alley lay-offs seen as good for New York industries.American Express launches a free ISP for its a customers, a move seen as an expensive failure for other companies.It takes one fat pipe: Fresno, CA builds an e-village.Razorfish
Money over Suicide: Sega President pays $750M to company to cover Dreamcast loss.KPMB Consulting launches IPO today.Will the new economy create a new style of recession?The profits in patterns: E-commerce companies slowly realize the power of hardcore data mining.Razorfish took in $51M; read the memo.
Lehman Brothers rings death bell for Amazon.King opens his books and shows "The Plant" was a financial success.AOL Europe considers an IPO.Microsoft will launch an IM that works with Yahoo and others.Amazon will charge publishers to promote their books by email.Publishers declare war
Amazon gets into payment services with one-click honor system.How to evaluate e-commerce when the signs seem confusing.iVillage will acquire Women.com for $27M.Etoys will shut down on April 6.The future of Flash: CNET defends its new banners as "new ad experiences" that
Lycos uses net surfing patterns to predict trends.Ralph Lauren's son wants to turn Polo into a media company.Vanderbilt University funds lab to study AmIHotOrNot.com.The secret of web porn: the spam-king is opening new windows.Time Magazine partners with BlackPlanet.com for black history
Bezos says "Get the crap out" and Amazon starts to trim its inventory. [wsj]Unemployment hits 4.2 percent. [wsj]Bulls are rarely brilliant, bears are rarely idiots: online businesses can be successful.Verizon builds Silicon Alley office to serve complaints.Ex-Amazon workers can talk trash and
Champagne for the campaign: As Bertelsmann plans for future acquisitions, trust-buster Joel Klein is brought behind lines.Come on, y'all wanna floss wit us: Will Sony buy BeOS?Baby, I got your money, don't you worry: AOL/TW plans to rebrand CNNfn as CNN Money.
Amazon sets up trust fund for laid off workers.Andreessen's LoudCloud gets rained on like the rest of us.AOL/TW posted earnings that exceeded the street's expectations.The dream is over: Sega kills Dreamcast and will now produce software.Sony applies to build an Internet
Hate groups use the web to build cells, and raise wolves in them.Palm invests in pint-sized printers.Nokia posted strong profits in 2000, but Finns forsee decline in sales.As predicted, Disney lets Go. Expect layoffs.Yahoo is an open garden; AOL is a closed pen.iXL sells
