Excite@Home lays off 250 workers

Excite@Home Corp., a major high-speed Internet service provider, announced layoffs Tuesday of approximately 250 workers, or 8 percent of the company.

The staff cutbacks, announced to employees Tuesday and effective immediately, predominately come from Excite Studios, the company's Net media content businesses, according to company representatives. Full story. -- Corey Grice, Special to ZDNet Inter@ctive Investor