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San Jose, California-based Aspect Communications (Nasdaq: ASPT), a provider of CRM portals, announced today that its first quarter revenues shot up to a record $148.3 million (US$) and its net loss declined to $2.8 million from $13.3 million in the corresponding quarter in 1999 ...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Inteliant Corporation, a division of SOS Staffing Services (Nasdaq: SOSS) and e-business applications provider BroadVisionInc., announced a comprehensive alliance Wednesday that will pool the companies' products and services ...

Driven by strong international sales, CRM provider ICT Group (Nasdaq: ICTG) said Wednesday that its first quarter revenues leapt to $41.3 million, an increase of 12 percent over last year's first quarter ...

San Diego, California-based eAssist said Wednesday that it received $35 million from venture capital firms as it gears up to deliver its full suite of CRM products. eAssist offers a subscription-based package of CRM services ...

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Retek, Inc. (Nasdaq: RETK) strengthened its new CRM offerings today, as it announced an agreement to buy HighTouch Technologies for $27 million (US$) ...

Solutions provider ePartners completed its bookend of nationwide CRM offerings, as the Dallas, Texas-based company announced today that it will acquire the San Mateo, California-based LeadTrack Systems for an undisclosed sum. LeadTrack offers software for sales lead automation ...

Privately-held eForce, a provider of e-business strategies, said Monday that its revenues rose 115 percent for the first quarter of the year to $4.3 million and its work force expanded rapidly to keep up with a growing customer base ...

Octane Software, a provider of CRM applications and software, announced Monday that it sold its products to 32 new customers in the first quarter of the year, breaking a company record ...

Business solutions provider NCR (NYSE: NCR) said Monday that it has sold versions of its eBusiness Teradata Warehouse to E*Trade, Travelocity, Macys.com, and others since its recent launch ...

Swedish business applications provider Industrial & Financial Systems, AB (IFS) said today that it sold its Atlanta, Georgia-based Exactium unit to Pivotal Corporation (Nasdaq: PVTL) for $34 million ...

Eight Internet-based service companies were the latest to sign up for an e-fulfillment system from B2B solutions provider Descartes (Nasdaq: DSGX), the company announced today ...

Lexington, Massachusetts-based MarketSoft, a provider of e-marketing solutions, touted its achievements of late in a succession of walks to the podium ...

The E-Commerce Times (www.ecommercetimes.com), the leading global e-commerce news portal, has announced the acquisition of allEC.com from Canadian-based V-Networks, Inc. The acquisition extends the E-Commerce Times' brand name recognition, audience reach and revenue base ...

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions company Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), the largest bank in the United States, announced plans today to develop a suite of B2B services and a marketplace for the bank's two million business customers ...

One of the best known Internet business models is to provide free content to online readers and charge corporate sponsors for advertising space.While there has never been a doubt as to the success of this paradigm in the print and broadcast media, some skeptics have questioned whether this "content/publisher" strategy can succeed on the Web. The E-Commerce Times took a close look at five Internet-based content publishing companies,Andover.net, Inc., CNET Networks, Inc., Internet.com Corp.,Yahoo! Inc. andZDNet Group, and found not only that the business model is fundamentally sound, but also that some of the leading content providers are well-positioned to become extremely profitable pillars of the new Internet economy...

German media giant Bertelsmann AG announced Friday that it is selling its 50 percent stake in AOL Europe and AOL Australia back to AOL in a stock deal worth between $6.5 billion and $8.25 billion (US$) ...

In an effort to keep its MSN.com portal competitive with its rivals, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced today that it is joining with a number of financial institutions to launch a Web site that will automate home mortgage transactions ...

In yet another deal that has analysts shaking their heads over the fundamental valuations of Internet companies, customer relationship management (CRM) firm E.piphany, Inc. (Nasdaq:EPNY), has agreed to pay $3.18 billion (US$) to buy privately-held Octane Software ...

In what has become a common refrain, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions provider Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARBA) has announced a set of key partnerships -- this time with American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL) ...

In a deal that underscores the notion that many Internet-oriented technology companies are wildly overvalued by the market, business-to-business (B2B) software giant i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO) has agreed to purchase supply chain services company Aspect Development (Nasdaq:ASDV) for $9.3 billion (US$) in stock. Aspect reported $95 million in revenues and $8.9 million in earnings for its fiscal ended December 31, 1999...