an anonymous form of digital money that can be linked directly to a bank account or exchanged for physical money. As with physical cash, there is no way to obtain information about the buyer from it, and it can be transferred by the seller to pay for subsequent purchases.
The Ded: In what will be the largest acquisition in the his tory of the computer industry, Compaq Computer has agreed to acquire Digital Equipment Corp. for cash and stock valued at $9.6 billion. The deal calls for shareholders of Digital to receive $30 in cash and 0.945 share of...
OMAHA, Neb. -- infoUSA Inc. (Nasdaq:IUSA) today issued the following statement in response to Digital Impact, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:DIGI) announcement that the Digital Impact board has recommended that its stockholders reject infoUSA's cash tender offer to acquire all of Digital Impact's outstanding common stock: "infoUSA believes that the Digital Impact...
The Deal: Intuit Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Digital Insight Corporation for $39 per share in cash. The price represents a premium of 18 percent over Digital Insight's closing share price prior to the deal announcement. The transaction is expected to close in the first caldendar...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. & SAN MATEO, Calif. -- AcxiomR Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) and Digital Impact, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIGI) today announced they have reached a definitive agreement for Acxiom to acquire Digital Impact for $3.50 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $140 million based on fully diluted...
THE BBC has built up a cash pile of pounds 235m which could threaten its efforts to persuade the Government to impose a higher licence fee on people buying digital televisions. Even though the broadcaster spent pounds 154m on developing new digital channels and increasing its presence on...
MAYNARD, Mass. - Digital Equipment Corp. is the latest corporation to convert its defined benefit plan to a cash balance plan. Digital moved all active employees into the cash balance plan March 1. The move was made primarily to provide employees withMAYNARD, Mass. - Digital Equipment...
King World's Wheel of Fortune is partnering with American Express to market Blue Cash, a card product that gives consumers up to 5% cash back on their purchases. Sony Pictures Digital Networks, a division of Sony Pictures Digital, put together the King World's...
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), a provider of Security Through InnovationTM, announced today that it has exercised a one million share warrant in Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC). With this exercise, Applied Digital increases its ownership position to 23,434,412 shares of Digital Angel Corporation. The exercise price...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- AcxiomR Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Digital Impact, Inc. for $3.50 per share of Digital Impact common stock in cash.
Sir: In your enthusiasm to say how well we'd done in building up our cash balance ("BBC cash pile may stop rise in licence", 18 June), you overlooked a couple of points. Our cash balance (pounds 235m) and the savings we managed to chalk up last year (pounds...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it is offering its clients the Digital River Visa Electron Card. The card, which functions like a debit card, provides Digital River clients a quick, easy and secure method for making off-line purchases, withdrawing cash,...
Growth in digital cable and high-speed data subscribers helped increase cash flow at Comcast Corp.'s cable unit by 10.5 percent during the fourth quarter, despite a churn rate for digital services that far exceeds its competition. Comcast, th ...
HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--May 28, 1998--Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) today announced cash tender offers and solicitations of consents relating to the following debt securities of Digital Equipment Corporation (NYSE:DEC): $250 million 7-1/8% Notes due October 15, 2002, $250 million 8-5/8% Debentures due November 1, 2012, and $250 million 7-3/4% Debentures due April...
Oct. 7--Digital Equipment Corp. and Intel Corp. are hammering out an agreement to end their courtroom battles, with Digital receiving a pile of cash while Intel gains a new manufacturing plant and clear rights to the chip technology at the core of Oct....
A week after putting itself on the auction block, Adelphia Communications Corp. reported mixed results for the month of March, with cash flow and basic subscribership down, but digital and high-speed Internet customers rising. Cash flow for t ...
PACE MICRO Technology is talking to the BBC and ITV about producing a basic set-top box to allow consumers to receive free-to- air channels over the digital terrestrial platform. It also emerged yesterday that the owners of ITV Digital, Carlton and Granada, are trying to renegotiate the...
Santa Clara, California--BUSINESS WIRE--August 8, 1997--Digital Video Systems, Inc. DVS (Nasdaq:DVID) today announced the purchase of the Digital Video DV division of privately held Arris Interactive a joint venture between Nortel and Antec for $1.5 million in cash and 600,000 shares of DVS stock, which will be divided between Nortel...
After 20th Century Fox pulled out of a deal to show "X-2: X-Men United" in Boeing's digital theaters after that company refused to be held liable if its equipment failed, Camarillo-based Technicolor appears poised to cash in on Hollywood's pack of digital films coming out this summer. "It looks...
