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Dialog Corp. reported fourth-quarter losses of $19.3 million on $60.1 million in revenue, down from losses of $4 million on $63.8 million in revenue a year ago. For the year, [...]

Jim Drury considers himself one of a new breed of chief financial officers: those who actively network to raise money in addition to handling the paperwork. Some members of Drury's [...]

Infotrieve Corp., a provider of virtual libraries and journal-article-retrieval services to corporations and academic institutions, has announced that it has received $10 million in funding from a group of investors […]

Incubators offer emerging businesses basic services like office space, computers, Internet access, and phone and fax lines. A growing number of technology incubators operate in the area, helping turn what [...]

San Francisco-based online music guide Listen.com broke previous records for music site funding with its most recent cash infusion. The company already had been the recipient of investments by all [...]

Largest creditors of Apex Global Information Services Inc., taken from the company's Feb. 25 petition under Chapter 11 of federal bankruptcy law: Northern Telecom Inc., Richardson, Texas, $22 million, working [...]

Madrid-based GDS Amadeus announced that its 1999 annual results showed continued growth in both bookings and profitability. For the 12-month period ended Dec. 31 the company's revenue grew 14.5 percent. […]

The Hatfield-based asset management arm of BAE Systems posted record lease revenue in 1999 of $275 million at out-turn values--the total value expected over the period of the lease. A [...]

* BAe Systems announced 1999 profits before tax, including a single month of Marconi, of 790 million £ (+11.6%) on sales of 8.93 billion £ (+3.7%). Discounting the poor month […]

Questel*Orbit has announced that sales in November 1999 were 15% above annual revenue targets. Due to growing interest in patents, trademarks, and domain names, plus the successful merger of the [...]

Avert Inc. reported net revenue for the 1999 fourth-quarter at $3.7 million, an increase of 42 percent over the $2.6 million reported for the same time in 1998. The Fort [...]

Brann Data has increased profits to £2.5m, a 7% increase on last year. The company's turnover was £7m. Brann Data operates databases for clients including Royal Mail and [...]

New York - E-business integrators and vendors are closing their books on 1999, and early results have been promising. For the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, San Francisco-based USWeb/CKS watched […]

Syndicated bank lending increased 60% in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa last year, to a record $498 billion, driven by a surge in mergers and acquisitions. Thomson Financial Securities [...]

Ruth Eckerd Hall experienced real, tangible success with its newly revamped Web site. At http://www.rutheokerdhall.com, the site allows concert lovers to jump online, choose tickets and buy them straight from [...]

New York-CMGI Inc. and Oracle Corp. beat analysts' expectations for their most recent quarters, while MicroAge Inc. missed projections and fellow channel stalwart Inacom Corp. warned investors it would do […]

Five St Louis firms received more than $60 million, in venture capital during the third quarter this year. Yet, the two companies drawing more than $56 million of the total [...]

CDDB Inc., a division of Carmel-based Escient Inc., has closed on a $6.1 million private placement that should provide the company with enough operating capital through 2000. CDDB, based in [...]

OnHealth Network Co. of Seattle, an online health and wellness Web site, said it netted approximately $14.7 million from a private stock. sale to institutional shareholder Van Wagoner Funds. The [...]

SEATTLE--Publicly traded visual content firm Getty Images has made a minority investment in San Francisco-based LicenseMusic.com, an online database of original music available for licensing over the Internet. As part […]

The California Public Employees' Retirement System is close to completing an equity investment in an upstart, Internet-based commercial real estate listing service -- a move expected to accelerate the real [...]

New York--Salomon Smith Barney ended Lehman Brothers' five-quarter reign as top mortgage-backed debt underwriter in the third quarter, according to Securities Data Co. SSB, which still ranks second to Lehman [...]

Merisel Inc. and Savoir Technology Group Inc. expect to miss analysts' projections for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. Merisel now expects a loss of 11 cents to 15 cents […]

In September, two Manhattan companies struck health care Internet deals valued at over $200 million, and one of them went public -- a healthy indication that investors view medicine as [...]

Research Triangle Park-based Business and Healthcare Systems, a start-up with 10 employees, will receive $1 million in venture capital from Eno River Capital of Durham. Chief Executive Joe Carsanaro, who [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer finance units of the two largest financial institutions on the West Coast turned in strong second-quarter results, but mostly for different reasons. Norwest Financial, the [...]

Internet companies have connected with stock market investors, but they have yet to upload favor in the loan market. Unlike the investors who have bid up Internet companies' shares into [...]

Dialog Corp., of Cary had revenues of $68.9 million during the quarter ended March 31, up 7.8 per cent from the previous three months. The company announced that Michael Mander, [...]

By STEVEN MARJANOVIC Shares of Equifax Inc. fell 22% Wednesday, to $34.375, after the Atlanta-based company said fourth-quarter earnings will be significantly below Wall Street's expectations. Projected revenues from European [...]

The recent strength of the mortgage market has buoyed earnings for information provider Factual Data Corp. The company, which supplies customized information such as mortgage credit reports and tenant screening [...]

MATT ROUSH CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS A consortium of 21 Detroit area libraries has a $2.3 million plan to create a huge, online database that they say will be a national [...]

WINNING A bidding war against database giant infoUSA, Stephen T. Dunn, president and CEO of direct marketing company Mal Dunn has secured the assets of the company for more than [...]