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• Data Destroyed, Tears Shed

  BNET - 2009-11-10

  GeoCities is no more. Yahoo! pulled the plug on Oct. 27, wiping away 7 million of Internet's first Websites in the process. Who cares? Digital archivists care, that's who, and maybe a few disgruntled GeoCities customers. "GeoCities was the largest self-created folk-art collection in the history of the world," says...

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• R.I.P. GeoCities: A Community is Killed

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  Yahoo has officially shut down Geocities.The company has said that it did not count the property among its priorities, so it is simply getting rid of it. Yahoo has shut down about 20 services in less than a year.We learned that Yahoo would be closing the door on GeoCities back...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., GeoCities

• Thomas R. Evans Named Chairman and CEO of U.S. Audiotex; Former GeoCities CEO to Head E-Commerce Tax Payment Service

  - 1999-09-17

  LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 17, 1999-- Imperial Bank announced today that Thomas R. Evans has been named Chairman and CEO of U.S. Audiotex, the leading provider of electronic payment options by credit cards to government entities. U.S. Audiotex is a San Ramon, Calif.-based firm in which Imperial Bank, the...

  Tags: bank, California, Company, e-business, Evan, GeoCities, Internal Revenue Service, INTERNET, phone

• Business World

  - 1999-03-19

  Burgers and e-postcards NEW YORK NYT -- Peter Allen Abramson, a Burger King franchisee who turned his Manhattan restaurant into the world's first cyber- burger joint, has augmented his bank of 20 Internet-surfing computers with five Big Picture video cameras from the 3Com. The cameras, linked to the...

  Tags: Associated Press, car, GeoCities, INTERNET, lawyer, lottery, monitor, NYT, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.

• QSound Joins Forces With GeoCities to Offer 3D Audio Software to Consumers Through 'Pages That Pay' Affiliates Program

  - 1999-03-08

  CALGARY, Alberta--BUSINESS WIRE--March 8, 1999--New Marketing Agreement Expands QSound Affiliate Network QSound Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSND) a leading supplier of digital and analog audio solutions, announced that it has partnered with GeoCities (NASDAQ: GCTY), the largest and one of the fastest-growing community of personal Web sites to become a member...

  Tags: 3D, audio, Company, GeoCities, INTERNET, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., software

• IBC Investment Opinion on Internet Deal Activity

  - 1999-02-11

  IRVINE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 11, 1999--Internet deals continue to heat up in the first quarter of 1999. Some of the most exciting deals are being consummated by large and small Internet companies alike. WAREFORCE.COM subsidiary Wareforce Inc. announced recently that it has acquired the Assets of Kennsco Inc. ...

  Tags: e-business, E-business/E-commerce, FINANCE, GeoCities, INTERNET, Investment, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., NYSE Euronext, Yahoo! Inc.

• Yahoo!, GeoCities Lead Other Portals in Ratings from internet.com's E-Commerce Guide

  - 1999-01-28

  WESTPORT, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--January 28, 1999--Internet.com's E-Commerce Guide (http://e-comm.internet.com) rated Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and GeoCities (Nasdaq: GCTY) highest in recent reviews of portal/community sites that offer commerce services. Both Yahoo! Stores and GeoShops from GeoCities received the highest ranking - the Five Star award -- for their excellent reporting and management...

  Tags: e-business, E-business/E-commerce, GeoCities, INTERNET, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., portal, Yahoo! Inc.

• We Salute We Dispute

  - 1998-12-01

  WE SALUTE ... the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU for taking a stand on Internet blocking software and how it's used in public libraries. Working on behalf of an eclectic group of plaintiffs, the ACLU is suing Loudon County, Va., for requiring its library patrons to use content filters...

  Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, FTC, GeoCities, INTERNET, Litigation

• Customer Service and Support Takes to the Web

  - 1998-11-01

  Thanks to the Web, it's now easier than ever before to communicate and establish a relationship with scores of potential and existing customers simultaneously, no matter where they're located. And, thanks to the Web, it's just as easy to make them all angry. In an effort to better manage...

  Tags: GeoCities, Motive Inc., TransCanada Corp.

• Geocities Makes Out Of Court Settlement In Ftc Data Protection Case

  - 1998-09-14

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE--C 1994-8 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD GeoCities, a US web publisher and web space provider, is to display a prominent privacy statement on its web site in an out-of-court settlement. The charges, brought by the US Federal Trade Commission, claimed that GeoCities had...

  Tags: C, FTC, GeoCities, Litigation, MARKETING, settlement, Web