A hitch to marital Web bliss; Excite@Home is often at odds with its cable parents

Article Abstract:

Excite@Home has a market capitalization of $18 bil. It is owned by 3 cable companies, AT&T, Comcast Corp., and Cox Communications, who have a total of 65 million customers. Excite@Home's business plan calls for it to become the high speed Internet connection provider, with Excite serving as the home page, or the first screen users see. It hopes to do for cable modems what AOL did for telephone modems. By the end of 1999, Excite@Home, founded in 1995, projects it will have 500,000 subscribers. It is in negotiations with cable companies for rights to become the exclusive 'Internet channel' until 2002. In 2002, cable cos. must open their networks to rivals, such as AOL, but by then Excite@Home hopes to have a strong enough brand to compete. AOL presently has 17 mil subscribers.

Strategy & planning, Planning, Online information services, Company business planning, Online information service, Bell, George, Jermoluk, Thomas A.

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Media legitimation effects in the market for initial public offerings

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A brief argument on the issue that media-provided information affects investorEs impression of newly public firms is presented. The findings provide evidence that publicly available information not only reflects the initial public offeringsE authenticity, but also adds to their authenticity and influences investor behavior.

Management dynamics, Investors, Going public (Securities), Initial public offerings, Company business management, Company public offering

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Continuous "Morphing": Competiting Through Dynamic Capabilities, Form, and Function

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The dynamic evolvement or morphing and regeneration for competitive advantage of Yahoo! and Excite in the Internet are analyzed.

Statistical Data Included, Internet, Internet service providers, Yahoo! Inc., YHOO, ATHM

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