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| - FirstService
Buys Canadian CRM Stalwart
- Blockbuster,
Enron clip Web movie pact
- Bombs
Away
- Convergys Unites with
IBM for Wireless CRM
- Drkoop
Attends Personalized Healthcare Delivery
- AT&T
to acquire assets of bankrupt DSL provider NorthPoint
- Citrix
To Extend Web Services With Sequoia Acquisition
- Emblaze
Agrees License Deal With Microsoft
- CA
and partners go all out for mobile
- WebMD,
Microsoft Ink New Deal
- Compaq,
Allscripts join to offer handheld PCs to doctors
- SAS
To Acquire Intrinsic
- Agilent,
HP Talk Strategic Alliance
- Groove
teams with Microsoft for enterprise collaboration
- Dell,
Samsung sign $16B supply, R&D deal
- Lucent
Seeks Fiber Unit Buyer
- IBM,
Symbian Bring Office To Cell Phones
- Alliances
Make Strange Bedfellows
- Net2Phone
Beats Estimates, Revamps Deals
- Sprint
and Sun Form Alliance to Provide An Integrated Solution For E Business Customers
FirstService
Buys Canadian CRM Stalwart
FirstService Corporation a Canadian property
and business services provider, took a giant step toward growing its CRM business
by acquiring Canadian CRM and fulfillment company Herbert A. Watts Ltd for an
undisclosed sum. Blockbuster,
Enron clip Web movie pact
Blockbuster and Enron Broadband Services said
Friday that they have broken off an exclusive partnership to deliver movies over
the Web, signaling new static over the highly anticipated creation of video-on-demand
services. Bombs
Away
The war of words goes on in the wake of the Microsoft-Sun settlement,
while developers remain skeptical Convergys
Unites with IBM for Wireless CRM
An agreement between Convergys Corp.
and IBM will provide billing and customer service support for IBM's UNIX servers,
giving wireless operators access to a high-performance hardware system and greater
flexibility in choosing hardware providers... Drkoop
Attends Personalized Healthcare Delivery
Hoping to meet healthcare provider
and consumer demands for customized healthcare information, Drkoop.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:
KOOP) and I-trax, Inc. have teamed up to launch a suite of Web-based health management
services... AT&T
to acquire assets of bankrupt DSL provider NorthPoint
AT&T Corp. announced
it will acquire all of the assets of bankrupt DSL provider NorthPoint Communications
Group Inc. in a deal valued at $135 million, according to company officials.
Citrix
To Extend Web Services With Sequoia Acquisition
Application server software
company Citrix Systems Inc. is moving to extend its product line to include Web
content and applications by agreeing to acquire portal company Sequoia Software
Corp. for $184.6 million in cash Emblaze
Agrees License Deal With Microsoft
Emblaze, an Israeli company whose technology
streams video to mobile Internet devices, said it had entered a licensing agreement
with software giant Microsoft Corp CA
and partners go all out for mobile
At CeBit in Germany, CA and an A-list
of partners announced plans to take the software giant's e-business products into
the mobile arena. WebMD,
Microsoft Ink New Deal
Internet health-care firm WebMD Corp. said that
it has revised its partnership with Microsoft Corp. Compaq,
Allscripts join to offer handheld PCs to doctors
Compaq Computer Corp.
announced a deal with Allscripts Healthcare Solutions to provide physicians with
iPAQ Pocket PCs that they can use to access patient information SAS
To Acquire Intrinsic
Continuing to expand beyond its data-analysis roots,
SAS Institute Inc. has agreed to acquire Intrinsic, a British developer of marketing
automation and campaign-management software Agilent,
HP Talk Strategic Alliance
Computing giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and the
company it spun off in 1999, Agilent Technologies Inc., are discussing a ``strategic
alliance'' for joint business intiatives. Groove
teams with Microsoft for enterprise collaboration
Groove Networks made
a foray into collaborative applications for the enterprise this week through a
development agreement with Microsoft that's related to the software giant's new
Internet-based HailStorm technology. Dell
Computer Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have entered into a $16 billion,
four-year agreement for Samsung to supply the computer maker with key parts, the
companies said. Lucent
Seeks Fiber Unit Buyer
Lucent Technologies confirmed that it is looking
for a buyer to pick up its Optical Fiber Solutions unit in an attempt to pay down
part of its $8.5 billion debt. IBM,
Symbian Bring Office To Cell Phones
IBM and Symbian announced a partnership
Thursday to work on technology that will allow people to access their work e-mail,
calendar and corporate information via their cell phones. Bigfoot
Dances Expressive Merger Tango
E-mail marketing companies Bigfoot Interactive
and Expression Engines each have agreed to their mutual merger inquiries, bulking
up in an automated marketing industry that is starting to show a bent for consolidation.
Alliances
Make Strange Bedfellows
When Enron and Blockbuster unveiled their exclusive,
20-year video-on-demand marriage of convenience last July, one of the first thoughts
that sprung to mind was, "Which company will still be around in 2020?"
Net2Phone
Beats Estimates, Revamps Deals
Internet phone service provider Net2Phone
beat Wall Street expectations and moved up its profitability projections, while
saying it has revised partnerships that were proving too expensive. Sprint
and Sun Form Alliance to Provide An Integrated Solution For E Business Customers
Sprint Corp. and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) are aligning sales and marketing
teams to create
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