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In an attempt to raise brand awareness and online sales, Dell Computer announced Tuesday that it has started an affiliate program that will allow other Web sites to earn commissions on sales by linking to Dell's home page. Right now, Dell says its online sales are about 25 percent of its total sales...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) announced Monday that the companies have partnered to make IBM's e-business and e-commerce solutions available to the more than 92 million users of Novell's Netware operating system.

Shares of popular women's network iVillage soared 233 percent on the stock's first day of trading on Friday, closing up 56-1/8 to 80-1/8. This climb was even more dramatic than it seemed. The initial public offering was originally priced at $12 (US$), but massive interest doubled the offering price....

the South by Southwest Interactive Festival proved anything, it's that the future of music distribution is rather unclear. A Tuesday panel on the MP3 debate, which featured Michael Robertson, the founder and CEO of MP3.com, and Paula Batson of AT&T, quickly turned into a heated debate with spect...

The goal of many businesses is to create brand loyalty and attract lifetime customers who will eventually spend thousands of dollars over many years. This is what makes web-savvy college students such attractive targets for e-commerce companies.

There's no doubt that streaming media is going to affect how we purchase information and entertainment in the next millennium. However, the problem with this kind of new media right now is that it's often simply a pain for consumers. Downloading can be tedious, and sometimes unbearably slow. Right n...

Catalog company Lands' End (NYSE: LE), which sells apparel and gifts, reported disappointing, though encouraging earnings on Thursday. This is not a contradiction. Overall fourth-quarter earnings fell 38 percent (including charges) to $25.7 million (US$). But the mail-order company's stock climbed m...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Now it's Hewlett-Packard's turn. One day after Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) launched its online store, and two days after Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) announced its deal with Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP) made its major e-commerce plans public.

Beyond.com's quest to build a well-recognized brand name got a big boost on Tuesday, when the online software retailer announced it was chosen as Compaq's online partner for software and services.

For weeks, Drugstore.com has been saying that it has formed a partnership with Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO). On Monday, the companies made an official announcement, and Wall Street was pleased.

Could the government put an end to all the euphoria surrounding eBay's stock? eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced late Friday that it is cooperating fully with a federal investigation into possible illegal transactions on the auction site. The inquiry will include an examination of eBay's roles in the t...

There aren't many stocks hotter than Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) right now, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) isn't conceding anything in the heated battle between the online booksellers. On Thursday, Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET) announced that it has signed an agreement to make Barnes and Noble the e...

There aren't many stocks hotter than Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) right now, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) isn't conceding anything in the heated battle between the online booksellers. On Thursday, Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET) announced that it has signed an agreement to make Barnes and Noble the e...

Looking for yet another reason to be bullish about Amazon.com? There's now an extremely compelling one. Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced on Wednesday that it owns approximately a 46 percent stake of online drug retailer Drugstore.com.

At the beginning of the year, Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer declared that his company's "top strategic priority is Internet leadership in the industry." Well, for now, it looks like that strategy surprisingly includes making Compaq computers harder to buy on the Internet. Compaq confirmed ...