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In China, it was not about technology nor capital investment," says Hu Ying-ping, the lead researcher at Data Center of China Internet, a unit of the Internet Society that released the annual survey in Beijing.
SARA LEE CORP., Chicago, the maker of Jimmy Dean meats, has awarded ICG Commerce, Wayne, Pa., a unit of the Internet Capital Group Inc., an electronic-procurement contract for purchases worth up to $800 million over 18 months.
The study, done by AdRelevance, a unit of the Internet measuring service Media Metrix, analyzed standard ad banners on the top 500 Web sites, as determined by Media Metrix, between July 1999 and June 2000.
Recent deals included the purchase by Vivendi's SFR mobile-phone unit of the Internet service provider Neuf Cegetel and the merger of its games business with Activision, a video games company in the United Sates, to form a new company, Activision Blizzard.
Paris-based online media group Hi-media has announced its acquisition of AdLINK Media, the display advertising unit of AdLINK Internet Media (also the company behind SEDO and Affilinet, which are not being sold), itself a part of Germany's ISP United Internet.
EMBRATEL PARTICIPACOES S.A., Sao Paulo, the largest long-distance carrier and data transmission company in Brazil, said it had agreed to buy AcessoNet, the closely held Internet access unit of UOL Inc., the largest Internet service provider in Latin America, for an undisclosed cash amount.
As recently as Jan . 8 Ditech, a unit of GMAC, ran Internet ads telling people they could take cash out of their houses, totaling up to 95percentt of the value of their homes.
The Abu Dhabi government's media and entertainment program, called twofour54 after the nation's coordinates, made its first gaming investment last year, channeling $2.5 million to Tahadi Games, a unit of the Jabbar Internet group based in Dubai, and Jawaker, a Jordanian company.
Potential suitors include NTL Inc., a telecommunications and cable television company that last year acquired Cable and Wireless's consumer phone, cable television and Internet business, and Terra Networks, the Internet unit of Telefonica of Spain, which recently bought the Internet portal site Lycos.
