The following is a list of archived major news changes to our  web, with the most recent changes listed first:

January 30, 2000

Consultwebs.com's Dale Tincher was interviewed and will appear in the February issue of Fortune Small Business. The Fortune article covers Internet Portals. A selected group of business owners were asked to review a list of Internet Portals and provide their opinions on the value of each Portal.

   

January 17, 2000

Web Site Acquisitions To Reach Qtr Trillion $ In 2000
San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 2000 JAN 14
(Newsbytes) -- By Dick Kelsey, Newsbytes. Web site buyers spent seven times more money on mergers and acquisitions last year than in 1998 and will shell out a quarter-trillion dollars on mergers and acquisitions in 2000, a new report says.

Web M&A Report, by Webmergers.com, says 450 Web sites of all sizes were purchased for about $47 billion in 1999 compared to 140 Web properties that went for $6 billion the previous year. About 15 percent of last year's total was spent in the fourth quarter compared to more than half the 1998 final quarter total. For more on the story, visit Andover News.

 

January 16, 2000

Consultwebs.com's Dale Tincher has been invited to join the faculty of the annual American Bar Association ABA annual Tech Show in Chicago, Illinois, March 30 to April 1, 2000. Dale will assist with three Internet related panels.

 

January 10, 2000

AOL and Time Warner to merge! What a story!!! An online service is taking over one of the biggest and most respected media companies. Time Warner's stock surged 39%. (Note: stocks have since dropped.) AOL chief Steve Case will be chairman of the combined company, to be called AOL Time Warner. The Dow hit a record high and the NASDAQ soared. We have combed the 'net and below are our favorite links to the story - ZDNet's articles, CNN and CNET News.com.

 

December 23, 1999

Court Gives No Copyright Protection To Internet Images
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 DEC 21
(Newsbytes) -- By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes. In a ruling that is bound to cause considerable consternation among all creators of copyrighted works, a United States District Court judge in California has denied the plaintiff's claim for damages in a lawsuit brought against the Web search site ditto.com for using copyrighted photographic images without permission or compensation to the copyright owners. The report of the decision as published by 7am.com said that California-based photographer, Leslie A. Kelly, who discovered copies of his work on the Website that calls itself "the premier visual search engine," brought the lawsuit. See Andover News for the remainder of the story.

 

December 20, 1999

Consultwebs.com has finalized site-design makeover and application programming for The North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) of Raleigh, North Carolina. NCICU serves as the representative of the 36 independent colleges and universities in North Carolina. Major functions of NCICU are advocacy, research and information, program development, coordination of projects and programs, and recruitment assistance for the institutions. The Consultwebs.com programming additions include a hyperlinked course-offering section, an image mapped North Carolina map linked to a summary of the colleges & universities and information request forms that are automatically routed from students to member colleges with no intervention by NCICU

 

December 19, 1999

The online purchasing section of our site has been updated to include additional purchasing sources and guidelines for investigating companies. Please visit software sources for more information.

 

December 16, 1999

The State of North Carolina has become the first appellate court to offer e-filing by automating its appeals filing and printing process. Briefs can be scanned or entered on line. To file electronically, a law firm must get a log-on for the system and do some training with the court. The law firm needs a computer with Internet access, a scanner and Adobe Acrobat software ($249) to convert documents. In the future, fees will be transferred electronically, eliminating the need to send a check.

 

December 10, 1999

Cyerberatlas reports that revenues generated online will reach $95 billion in 1999 and are expected to reach $226 billion in 2000, according to ActivMedia Research. ActivMedia's "Real Numbers Behind 'Net Profits" study of electronic commerce found the average budgeted investment for e-commerce Web site development in 1999 across all Web sites (excluding ISPs) is about $37,000. Media and portal sites committed the most to e-commerce site development, averaging $78,000.
Business-to-consumer sites selling exclusively online averaged $68,000, and typical retail and business-to-business sites committed in the mid-$20,000 range.

Top of Page

Recent News