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NEW YORK – AT&T today confirmed it has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of NorthPoint Communications. The United States Bankruptcy Court today approved the agreement valued at approximately $135 million. The acquisition includes all of NorthPoints co-locations nationwide, certain network equipment, systems and support software and related assets, including two leased buildings […]
New York-based not-for-profit organization Endeavor (www.endeavor.org) has picked e-learning site Seaprende (www.seaprende.com) as one of the 11 entrepreneurs to receive support from the organization this year, Seaprende CEO Max Grekin told BNamericas.com.
CUSeeMe Networks, (NASDAQ:CUSM) a Nashua, N.H., maker of video conferencing software and servers, is merging with First Virtual Communications (NASDAQ:FVCX) of Santa Clara, Calif., in a stock-swap deal.
As educators and policymakers try to address widespread teacher shortages, experts say few are recognizing a similar and perhaps more disturbing trend: the dwindling supply of teacher-educators. (Education Week, March
What do you call a chemist who pilots a 1999 Cessna 172R between Lincoln, Neb., and Chicago every weekend so he can someday run his own business? One very determined part-time MBA student. Mark Zieg, 34, is a drug formulator for Novartis Pharmaceuticals and a weekend student at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of […]
MORRISVILLE, N.C. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two leaders in the higher education market, Eduprise, Inc. and Mascot Network, Inc., today announced a marketing and technology agreement to provide colleges and universities with a wide range of value-added services, among them custom system integration and comprehensive e-Learning services, for use with Mascot’s Online Student Center. Eduprise […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Telecommunication and the Internet Subcommittee passed H.R. 718, the Unsolicited Electronic E-Mail Act, to end the problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail. Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) and Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM) introduced this legislation to give both consumers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) greater control over the flood of unwanted e-mail […]
MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies is launching MIT World,a streaming TV station available via the Internet (initially just toalumni and the campus community), featuring campus lectures, colloquia, seminars and special events. MIT Tech Talk, March 14, 2001
A HIGH-PROFILE DISTANCE-LEARNING COMPANY, eCollege, said Wednesday that it would lay off approximately 35 of its 330 employees. The announcement comes on the heels of a decision by UNext officials earlier this month to eliminate 52 jobs, from a total of 390.