Web firms start tussling as L.A. market heats up
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Southern California is becoming a new battleground for rival Internet-service companies. USWeb in Mar 1998 introduced a new entity, called USWeb Los Angeles, which combines three of the company's area acquisitions. Magnetic Interactive Group followed by announcing that it is moving its corporate executives from Washington, DC, to a new office in Culver City, CA. Both companies, which have criticized one another publicly on the developments, are among the six industry leaders in the rapidly growing 'Digital Coast' area. Observers also have mentioned Digital Evolution, iXL West, Digital Planet and Internal & External Communication. Atlanta-based iXL, the parent company of the iXL West division, hopes to complete the acquisition of Digital Planet in the next few weeks, according to iXL West's CEO, Kevin Wall.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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Brokerage firms are moving into cyberspace
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On-line securities trading is gradually becoming more popular as a number of companies offer online trading systems. The services are currently more popular with the investment companies than with individual investors because the investment companies rely on the systems for constantly updated information. But analysts expect on-line financial trading to grow in popularity more quickly than home banking has because more brokerage customers than banking customers own home computer systems. Some brokerage companies are offering lower commission fees for users who do their trading online. Brokerage companies are offering their services both through private, proprietary software and through the larger, commercial online information services such as America Online.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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Blind Web users campaign to 'see' more of cyberspace
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People with disabilities are concerned that as Web sites' designs become more complex, disabled Web surfers will be shut out. For example, blind people who navigate the Web using special 'screen reader' software that dictates text from Web sites are finding that graphics and complicated page layouts do not translate. Activists for the disabled say it would not be difficult to make Web sites accessible. They say alternative text versions of sites, with written descriptions of graphics, would be appropriate for the blind, and captions for audio files are wanted for the deaf and the dyslexic. These and other tips for making Web sites accessible are included in the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (www.w3.org/WAI).
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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