Zapata in deals to buy 21 Internet properties
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Zapata Corporation intends to buy 21 Internet sites and aggragate them under one site, www.Zap.com. The sites include search engine, Starting Point, and chat network, Chat Planet. Zapata is also interested in several electronic commerce sites, such as, Bibliofind, Mass Music and Virtual Technology. The company has already bought on-line magazines Word and Charged. Zapata wants to create a doorway service where users pass on their way to other sites. It hopes to be the No. 1 or No. 2 largest site on the Internet.
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Zapata Corp. intends to buy 21 Internet properties
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Investment site co-founder is at home on the Internet
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James J. Cramer, the co-founder of TheStreet.com, is also one of the service's top columnists. He composes up to three provocative columns every day, that are sent by e-mail to TheStreet's 18,000 subscribers. Mr. Cramer also serves as a commentator for ABC's "Good Morning America" and on CNBC. He hopes that the growing home investor sector, along with the financial professional sector, will make TheStreet into a major success. Home investors constitute 60% of the service's customers.
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Co-founder James Cramer hopes that growing home investor sector will make service a major sucess
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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New owners of Byte suspend publication
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CMP Media Inc. has suspended the publication of Byte magazine and laid off 74 of the magazine's employees. CMP acquired Byte and three other magazines in May 1998. Byte's editors and writers were expecting CMP to revive the magazine. Byte has seen its circulation fall to an average of 442,553 compared to 522,795 in 1996. The magazine's advertising has also decreased. Byte published 61.5 ad pages. This was less than half of what it published in 1996.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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