Word: infoseek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lessees of GM's EV-1 sports coupe are organizing on the Internet. Meanwhile the auto lobby is working on Governor GRAY DAVIS and California legislators. The wild card: a group of Silicon Valley types who embrace the clean machines. As EV-1 driver STEVEN KIRSH, founder of Infoseek, put it last week, "The problem with electric vehicles is lack of product, not demand...
Bankers are quick to defend the trend, noting that new- and old-economy industries are colliding as the world goes online. Disney buying Infoseek isn't cross industry, they argue. It's all media. Ditto AOL and Time Warner. O.K., but broadening the definition hasn't helped Disney execs better understand the Internet company it bought for $1.6 billion. The Mouse refocused its prize acquisition yet again last week. And while AT&T and its recent quarry, cable operator MediaOne, are both in the data-transmission business, it is a leap to believe the phone guys can manage cable assets...
...TRIAL GRANTED. TO PATRICK NAUGHTON, 34, ex-Infoseek honcho convicted last month of possessing cyber child porn; in Los Angeles. An appeals court ruled parts of federal child-porn law unconstitutional. Retrial is set for March...