Aug 21

the Company reported it had retained a financial advisor to explore strategic alternatives.Track Data is a New York-based financial services company that provides direct access brokerage, Internet Sales real-time financial market data, news, and research to institutional and individual investors through dedicated telecommunication lines and the Internet.
The Company also owns and operates the Track ECN, [...]

Aug 3

Amazon.com on Friday said it has agreed to buy AbeBooks, an online marketplace for mostly used, rare, and out-of-print books. Financial terms were not disclosed. Privately held AbeBooks, based in British Columbia, Canada, lists books from thousands of independent sellers worldwide, Amazon said. The online marketplace has more than 110 million books for sale.
“As a [...]

Jun 11

In April, the New York legislature passed a law designed to increase sales tax revenue from Internet sales. The law is known as the “Amazon tax” because it broadens the sales tax law to apply to Amazon’s Associates Program and thereby achieve the necessary legal nexus for New York to force Amazon (and other Internet [...]

Jun 11

which runs many of the Internet’s core systems, said Wednesday it has signed a deal to sell and lease back a portion of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
VeriSign plans to sell about 159,000 square feet of its 290,000 square-foot headquarters to PR III Middlefield Road LLC for $49 million, according to a filing with the [...]

May 31

If the sagging housing market and high gas prices have Americans singing the blues, they’re turning to Musician’s Friend for accompaniment.
Internet Retailer ranked Musician’s Friend first among all Web sites selling specialty products (based on 2007 sales), moving the Medford retailer up from second the previous year. Musician’s Friend jumped nine spots to No. 39 [...]

May 31

Nanaimo Senior A Timbermen fans can follow their team with live play-by-play on the Internet.
The team announced on Wednesday that all eight remaining road games will be audio webcast on the Internet, including tonight’s Western Lacrosse Association game in New Westminster against the Salmonbellies. Game time is 7 p.m.
Dan Marshall, of Nanaimo radio The Wolf [...]

May 20

Jeff Snell, principal broker for ENLIGN Business Brokers (www.enlign.com), has announced that the firm has renewed its partnership agreement with Businessesforsale.com. Businessesforsale is an Internet business-for-sale marketplace with more than 57,000 businesses for sale and over 11,000 visitors to the site each day. The site offers a comprehensive range of services to facilitate the buying [...]

May 20

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has won a Gold “MUSE” Award from the American Association of Museums for the design of a computer role-playing game included in new DVD/CD ROM set called “A Day in the Life.”
Titled “Betwixt Folly and Fate,” the game offers players an immersive 3-D role-playing experience that takes them through 1774 Williamsburg [...]

May 17

On Monday, while I was posting all of the many jobs that Play Hard Sports has available on the Fantasy Sports Jobs page, I realized, I had not spent much time discussing what Play Hard is doing, and honestly, I think it is pretty cool.
Play Hard describes themselves as, “the first studio in North America [...]

May 17

the world’s largest publicly traded gambling company, said profit has climbed 13 percent this year as customers make more bets on electronic terminals and soccer matches go in its favor.
Gross winnings, or the amount left behind by gamblers, rose 16 percent in 2008’s first four months and advanced 34 percent including “high rollers” at its [...]