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Wednesday, April 4, 2001
TOP STORIES THIS WEEK:
* MusicNet heats up the digital-music war
* EC gets in line to tackle Microsoft
* Gameplay hits restart button in hunt for new buyer
* Who wants a piece of Moonfruit?
OPINION:
* Boris Gröndahl: No dotcom is an island
WORTH REPEATING:
* Hubert Bouchet: On rabbits and tanks
THE WEEK:
* Seven days in the Internet Economy
BY THE NUMBERS:
* British e-commerce breaks the rules
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TOP STORIES
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MusicNet heats up the digital-music war
By Hane C. Lee
The new subscription venture pits BMG, Warner and EMI against
Universal and Sony's Duet service
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EC gets in line to tackle Microsoft
By Boris Gröndahl
The commission threatens further action if Microsoft's 9,000-page
defence doesn't hold up
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Gameplay hits restart button in hunt for new buyer
By Rick Wray
Entertainment group searches for interested party to take business
forward
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Who wants a piece of Moonfruit?
By Rick Wray
Web design company up for sale despite claiming to be one of Britain's
15 most used sites
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OPINION
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Boris Gröndahl: No dotcom is an island
Offshore hosts promise freedom from corporate laws and taxes. But it's
not that simple
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WORTH REPEATING
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"One doesn't go hunting rabbits with a tank"
Vice-president of the French Commission Nationale de l'Informatique
et des Libertés, Hubert Bouchet, suggests employers tread softly
when monitoring employees' online habits with surveillance software.
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THE WEEK
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SAP SWELLS: Germany-based SAP, Europe's biggest software company, is
forming a US-based subsidiary to develop business portals in
partnership with Yahoo. SAP earlier announced it will buy US Internet
software firm TopTier for $400 million (455 million euros) in cash.
TopTier has software that runs Web sites, while SAP makes enterprise
applications.
LOSS LEADER: Tesco - the British supermarket chain which is also the
largest online retailer in Europe with annual sales of £250 million
(403 million euros) - was reportedly set to make its first losses
after expanding the range of goods sold online. It began by selling
simple grocery items, but has expanded the service to encompass
electrical goods, wine, music, books and videos.
CONFERENCE CALL: CeBIT, the world's biggest technology fair in
Hanover, attracted 830,000 people, 50,000 more than last year.
Although the fair opened amid falling markets and discouraging
earnings reports, the buzz this year revolved around the hopes and
fears for third-generation mobile telephony.
BUYING TIME: Italian ISP Tiscali announced sales of 173 million euros
for 2000 and losses of 188 million euros. But the company is
continuing its shopping spree, with rumours suggesting it may buy
British ISP Line One.
MARKET PRICE: French retail giant Galeries Lafayette has announced
that it plans to sell off part of its majority stake in online grocery
store Telemarket. The group's Internet subsidiary e-Laser currently
owns 70 per cent of the cybermarket, one of the leading online grocers
in France, but plans to reduce this holding to about 20 per cent in
the future. E-Laser is currently looking for potential buyers and some
say existing investors Casino and Monoprix may be interested. Together
they hold 15 per cent of the online grocery market. Telemarket
generated revenues of FF193 million (29.5 million euros) in 2000, but
posted a net loss of FF41.6 (6.4 million euros) during the year.
RUNNER BEENZ: Online loyalty points service Beenz.com was put up for
sale. The company now employs 80 people, down from 260 at its peak a
year ago. Last year Beenz, which has spent in the region of £56
million (90 million euros), said it would conduct a three-month
review. A possible partnership with an offline company was mooted.
POWER POINT: The European Commission proposed EU-wide anti-monopoly
guidelines for the telecoms sector to be used by national regulators.
The guidelines, drawn from EU competition law, are designed to help
member states define what constitutes "significant market power" in
the communications and networks industry, and extend the EU's reach
over the sector.
PACIFIC LOWS: Pacific Century CyberWorks, the Hong Kong Internet and
telecom firm with operations in the UK, reported a record loss driven
by falls in the value of its investments and interest charges.
Chairman Richard Li later said the firm was aiming to break even on
its business-to-consumer operations within four years.
HARBOURING DOUBTS: An e-commerce trade war loomed after the US
departments of Treasury and Commerce complained that the so-called
Safe Harbour agreement with the European Commission to ensure US
companies comply with EC privacy laws was "unduly burdensome". The
Bush administration wants to delay its introduction.
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BY THE NUMBERS
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More than half of British e-commerce firms are breaking the law,
according to a survey by the London Chamber of Commerce and technology
law firm Manches. Their research suggests that only 44 per cent of firms
trading on the Web comply with the requirements of the Data
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