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
Amazon's 4Q results are on track and treading water.Disney considers dropping Go.com.The spread of news is becoming news for email trackers.Bertelsmann plans for Napster-subscriptions this summer.People are dying for DSL, and realizing that Verizon is Satan.Sticky paper sold out in Williamsburg:
America is in massive debt, and so was Japan in 1990.Qualcomm beats earnings forecast by a penny.Oracle's Ellison cashes in for $160M.Powell wants to scrap most U.S. sanctions.You can buy "Ginger" on Amazon.Dig deep into the Web with specialized search
There will not be any news today because I worked until 4:30am last night and had to present this morning. I'm not asking for your sympathy, but your patience. Morning News tomorrow, after I sleep.
Tech stocks lead Wall St. gains.Microsoft will pay $20M for its use of Sun's Java.Verizon's penalties in NYC grew 700 percent this year, possibly totaling $43M.Career experts offer first-aid to recently laid-off twenty-somethings. [wsj]After killing its entire business software
FTC clears DoubleClick.For the first time in two months, more money is flowing into tech mutual funds than is flowing out.Travelocity exposes thousands of customers' information.Startup.com sells hopes and misery to Sundance.Twins adopted through Internet will stay with the British govt. for now.Computers
