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Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a global alliance today that places the Excite portal at the fingertips of users of IBM's Aptiva line of personal computers.

Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) added another member to its family of real estate-related sites today by announcing an agreement to buy Homefair.com from Central Newspapers (NYSE: ECP) for $85 million (US$).

Online mortgage lender mortgage.com (Nasdaq: XDCM) announced today that it has agreed to acquire three subsidiaries of a North Carolina holding company, significantly expanding its network of purchase-money mortgage lending in the business-to-business sector.

Internet Gold (Nasdaq: IGLD), a leading Israeli ISP, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to establish a portal that will feature a Hebrew language search service.

Online lender E-Loan (Nasdaq: EELN) announced today that it has received $26 million (US$) to help finance its push to gain a share of the online financial services market in Europe.

Intuit, Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) announced today that it will pay $370 million (US$) in stock to acquire Rock Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: RCCI), a Michigan-based mortgage lender.

Leading pharmacy chain CVS Corporation (NYSE: CVS) and Merck-Medco Managed Care L.L.C., one of the country's foremost providers of prescription drug care, announced today that CVS will be the exclusive provider of over-the-counter medicine and general health products for Merck-Medco's online busines...

Business to business e-commerce solutions provider Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) announced yesterday that it has inked a deal with an Australian telecommunications company to establish a business-to-business marketplace portal for Australia and New Zealand.

Oklahoma City-based CD Warehouse, Inc.(Nasdaq: CDWI) and Canadian music retailer CD Plus.com Ltd. announced today that they have signed a letter of intent to merge and create the fourth-largest music retailer in North America.

A newly-created investment fund backed by Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) and a group of venture capital firms announced today that it has invested $8 million (US$) in three companies, two of which have recently filed for initial public offerings.

Online travel sites Travelocity.com and Preview Travel (Nasdaq: PTVL) announced a merger today that will create an e-commerce entity with more than 17 million registered members and more than $1 billion (US$) in projected 1999 sales. The companies say that the merger will create the largest e-commer...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has continued his push to combine Internet content with state-of-the-art delivery networks by investing $1.65 billion (US$) in RCN (Nasdaq: RCNC), a Princeton, New Jersey-based telecommunications company.

The growing consensus among top industry leaders is that the standard e-commerce model of click and buy with no live interaction is going the way of the Commodore 64. In a word, e-commerce with a human touch is "in."

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Akamai Technologies, a cutting-edge Internet content delivery service, announced Monday that Microsoft Corp. has made a $15 million (US$) investment in the company and will integrate its software into Akamai's expanding network.

Seeking to leverage its e-commerce ties with some of America's leading sporting goods retailers, Global Sports, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSPT) announced today that it plans to launch a sporting goods auction site in the fourth quarter of 1999.

National Internet service providers EarthLink(Nasdaq: ELNK) and MindSpring (Nasdaq: MSPG) announced a merger today that would create the nation's second-largest ISP and "offer a clear alternative to AOL."

Children-oriented Web site MaMaMedia, Inc. announced today that it has raised $50 million (US$) in its most recent round of equity funding.

Leading portal and high-speed Internet access company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) announced Wednesday that it will create a joint venture with a German cable operator and its parent company to bring high-speed cable Internet access to 2.2 million German homes.

Executives at Sony Corporation of America and Time Warner announced Wednesday that 42 year-old Scott Flanders has been chosen to lead the new publicly-traded company that will emerge from the merger of CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW) and music marketer Columbia House.

ePhysician.com and Medsite.com announced today that they have teamed up to provide health care professionals with online access to thousands of medical books, journals, software and other medical supplies.