Internet search engine and portal operator AltaVista filed Friday a registration statement for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Morgan Stanley Dean Witter will act as the lead underwriter of the offering, the company said.
One of China's leading nuclear experts has said that his company's reactors are Year 2000-ready and pose little danger, according to media reports. Li Dingfan, president of China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC), told the Business Weekly newspaper he had full confidence in the industry and its capacity to deal with any problems that should develop.
Finland's Nokia says it has signed a $US250 million contract with Taiwan's KG Telecom to expand the operator's GSM (global system for mobile communications) based cellular network.
Japan will place 96,000 Self Defense Force (SDF) troops on duty at bases across the nation on the evening of December 31 to deal with any year 2000-related problems, the Defense Agency said here last week.
Three days after it turned five years old, global shipments of the PlayStation game console have passed the 70 million unit mark, Sony Computer Entertainment announced this week.
NTT Communications, IBM and Tivoli Systems have reached an agreement to work together on offering electronic business outsourcing services to Japanese companies.
NTT Communications, IBM Japan and Tivoli Systems have reached an agreement to cooperate in the field of e-business, sources close to the companies said.
NTT Mobile Communications Network (NTT DoCoMo) today signed an agreement with Hutchison Whampoa. to take an equity stake in Hutchison Telephone.
China is basically year 2000 ready, according to a report published yesterday in the official China Daily newspaper quoting Zhang Qi, the head of the year 2000 Office of the Ministry of Information Industry.
China's telecom network passed a system-wide Year 2000 test over the weekend without incident and has been declared ready for the turn of the century, according to a report in the Monday edition of the China Daily.
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to acquire a major Japanese cable TV system operator, according to the Thursday morning edition of Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.
Australian telecommunications company New Tel has announced plans to launch an Internet service and Web portal service in China. The site will be launched in association with Xinhua Holdings, the Hong Kong-based commercial arm of China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
NTT Mobile Communications Network (NTT DoCoMo), Japan's largest mobile telephone network operator, has reported higher revenue and profits for the first half of the current fiscal year ended September 30, 1999.
Japan's largest mobile telecommunications carrier, NTT Mobile Telecommunications (NTT DoCoMo), has confirmed it is eyeing partnerships and equity stakes in carriers worldwide as they seek to deploy third generation cellular networks.
Sony and Palm Computing, a unit of 3Com, have announced a deal to develop a new version of the PalmOS for use in handheld consumer electronics products.