March 15, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and IT infrastructure services provider TechSpace (techspace.com) announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the Web hosting, dedicated server and colocation customers of E-commerce Gateway. California-based TechSpace picks up 21,000 business-class user accounts and over 500 Web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
March 4, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Qwest Communications (qwest.com) is still in the running to acquire MCI (mci.com) after MCI and Verizon (verizon.com) agreed on Wednesday that MCI could consider Qwest’s sweetened deal, which is reportedly worth $8 billion.