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Many Internet stocks got a boost on Wednesday, thanks to positive comments from Merrill Lynch. You might remember that Merrill had a short-term rating of "reduce" for Amazon.com in late January. On Wednesday, Merrill rated Amazon.com "accumulate" and set a 12-month price target of $150.

E-commerce giants Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) are linking their content and online sales strategies, starting with a new co-branded Web site infrastructure announced on Wednesday. The joint venture will be linked from Dell's and Amazon's checkout pages and, will provid...

Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) announced on Wednesday the completion of its acquisition of Shopping.com (OTC:IBUY), an online retailer of goods and services. Compaq hopes that its ownership of Shopping.com and the AltaVista Internet portal site will usher in a new era of Internet-based sales...

Less than one week after Microsoft made many of its e-commerce plans public, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's No. 2 software company, added some firepower to its e-commerce arsenal.

On March 8, Intel announced it has reached a settlement on anti-trust charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. Before the terms were even public, reports surfaced that Microsoft is discussing a settlement of its problems with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Netscape Communications (Nasdaq: NSCP) announced on Tuesday that it will integrate comprehensive support for XML across its portfolio of e-commerce applications. According to the company, support for the XML language is a key ingredient to Netscape's e-commerce strategy. Netscape's implementation of...

E-commerce hosting service iMALL, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMAL) today announced the acquisition of San Francisco based Pure Payments Inc., which provides a critical component for Internet-based credit card processing. Pure Payments offers the electronic payment "gateway" which has been used in iMALL's integrat...

Shares of office-products retailer Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) and leading personal Web-hosting service Geocities (Nasdaq: GCTY) climbed on Monday after the companies announced a deal that would make Staples the exclusive office-supplies merchant on GeoCities.

Barry Diller was the headline maker at last week's Jupiter Consumer Online conference in New York. The headline was he won't sweeten his deal to acquire Lycos, whose shareholders will take a 30% interest in a new outfit that includes Diller's Home Shopping Channel. Beneath the headline was a lectu...

Onsale Inc. (Nasdaq:ONSL), a popular Internet retailer, today reported that more than ten million bids have been placed on its atAuction service at www.onsale.com. The ten-millionth bid was placed on Sunday, February 21, approximately two months after reaching the nine-million mark.

The Go2Net (Nasdaq:GNET) network of Web sites and Wireless Dimension recently unveiled a co-branded site, where Go2Net Network users can compare and buy wireless phones and service. The relationship provides a boost for Wireless Dimension, which will gain visibility among Go2Net's base of more than ...

Shares of 7th Street.com (Nasdaq: SEVL) soared more than 80 percent on Friday after the multimedia training company announced a deal with America Online, and the stock is rocketing today, as well.

"When the man dances, certainly boys what else. The piper pays him." So concludes the musical introduction to Prof. Harold Hill, "The Music Man" of the 1958 Meredith Wilson musical, a role made famous by the late great Robert Preston.

The world's largest domain-based Web-hosting company is about to get even bigger. Verio (Nasdaq: VRIO), which provides Web-hosting and e-commerce services for small businesses, announced on Thursday that America Online (NYSE: AOL) has chosen it to be the exclusive business Web-hosting partner for AO...

In the midst of legal wrangling with the U.S. Department of Justice and preparations for the much anticipated release of Windows 2000, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) shifted its focus on Thursday to announce a broad e-commerce strategy. At a press briefing held in San Francisco with chairman and CEO Bill ...