By making a bid for eMachines, Gateway is hoping to combine the best of two worlds, creating a much larger PC business and giving itself additional sales channels for consumer electronics, such as its Gateway televisions, both inside and outside...
While AOL generates most of its revenue from subscriptions, it has long tried to grow the software sales business that it inherited from its acquisition of Netscape in 1998. In the past week, both have decided to pull back on their corporate IM...
Executives at Dulles, Va.based AOL pointed to the planned acquisition as proof that the company is serious about improving its ad prospects. Miller said in a statement: "This acquisition is a strategic move that will bolster AOL's advertising...
In contrast with the contraction and restructuring elsewhere, UK telecoms operator Kingston Communications completed its acquisition of data networking specialist Omnetica on the last day of 2004. This acquisition provides further capability to...
Excluding traffic acquisition costs, which are fees shared with content partners, revenue was $1.2bn. Revenue a year ago was $1.5bn, or $1bn excluding traffic acquisition costs. to post fourth-quarter profits per share of 13 cents, including stock...
The power of such groups has been considerably enhanced by both the internet and the wide reach of media channels that have picked up the issue. To deliver these types of products, banks will continue to need integrated delivery channels and core...