A New York Web guide to be acquired; start-up City Search is big on local data
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Internet start-up City Search acquires Metrobeat, the publisher of a popular World Wide Web guide to Manhattan, as City Search seeks to expand into a national presence. City Search's strategy is based on the belief that the Internet, despite its global reach, may best be used to provide local information. City Search already has sites in Pasadena, CA and Raleigh-Durham, NC, and will add the Metrobeat site, which publishes information on events and the arts and entertainment in New York, to its roster. The company plans to have 30 sites operating around the US by the end of 1997. Although no evidence exists to demonstrate that money can be made from city guides on the Web, these local Web sites are one of the most rapidly expanding business segments on the Internet. The sites are relatively inexpensive to create and may attract local advertisers. City Search plans to add information on community events to the Metrobeat site, updating it continually.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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Most Americans over 30 years old have been left out of the digital revolution because, while 35% of US households have a PC, most are used for simple word processing or work-at-home functions. While many adult Americans are computer-illiterate, many children under the age of 10 have more computer savvy. Experts indicate parents feel obligated to buy computers for their children to use at home and children are interested in the new realm of computer software that marries entertainment and learning. These forces have propelled the sales of PCs ahead of TVs for the first time in 1993. By the year 2000, experts say there will be as many computers as there are TVs in homes today. Some users say there is more entertainment on the Internet than could be offered by any TV program. Users are even getting married in cyberspace, indicating the lack of geographical bounds.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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In Connecticut, harassment by computer is now a crime
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Connecticut is the first state to pass a law that makes it a crime to harass someone by computer. The state legislature is passing the law with little controversy, but the action is part of a larger issue over rights and responsibilities on the Internet. Those who support the law say that it merely extends current harassment laws from physical threats and telephone harassment into the computer world. Opponents of the law say it may violate freedom of expression by imposing censorship on users of the Internet. Both Michigan and Arizona have tried to limit harassment by computer, both passing laws that make harassment by electronic means a crime. The US Senate is also considering legislation prepared by one Senator that would ban obscene and lewd language from the Internet.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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