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Priceline and NextCard Unveil Name-Your-Terms Credit Card

Name-your-price pioneer priceline.com and NextCard announced yesterday that they will begin offering consumers a customized, name-your-own-terms credit card in the second quarter of this year ...

ShopNow.com Added To E-Commerce Times Stock Index

The E-Commerce Times has added shopping portal ShopNow.com (Nasdaq: SPNW) to its "Top 10" Stock Index, a feature that tracks the stock prices for 10 public companies that represent the e-commerce industry ...

E-Commerce Newsmaker: Justin Jaschke, Chief Executive Officer, Verio Inc.

Verio, Inc. is one of the world's largest Web-hosting company and a leading provider of e-business solutions. With an emphasis on serving the small and mid-sized business market, Verio offers a broad range of Internet solutions such as high-speed Internet access, Web hosting, e-commerce solutions, virtual private networks and other enhanced services...

Amazon and Sprint Debut Wireless Net Shopping

As part of the new Amazon.com Anywhere initiative, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and nationwide digital wireless phone network Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS) announced today that owners of Internet-enabled Sprint PCS phones can now shop at Amazon.com without a computer ...

New FCC Ruling Could Lower Cost Of Internet Access

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave Internet surfers a shot in the arm yesterday by voting to require major local phone companies to share their lines with data carriers ...

Softbank Reportedly Planning Online Bank Purchase

According to published reports today, Japanese Internet investment company Softbank is planning to acquire an insolvent Japanese bank and turn it into the hub of an online financial services community ...

AOL Launches Philanthropy Portal

America Online's AOL Foundation announced the launch today of Helping.org, a new philanthropy portal that is designed to provide an easy and cost-effective way for Americans to donate money or time to a wide range of charitable organizations ...

AOL Launches European Invasion On Two Fronts

American Online, Inc. is attempting to ensure European Internet supremacy by mounting a two-pronged attack against English and German competitors ...

USA Networks Adds Hotel Reservations to E-Commerce Arsenal

While Wall Street continues to take a wait-and-see approach about the potential merger of USA Networks (Nasdaq: USAI) and Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS), USA Networks is busy adding to its e-commerce arsenal. USA Networks announced today that it has agreed to purchase the privately held Hotel Reservation Network, a leading worldwide provider of discount hotel accommodations via the Internet...

Amazon Agrees To Purchase LiveBid.com

In a move to expand its recently launched Auctions service, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has agreed to purchase LiveBid.com, which produces Internet-based auction software. LiveBid's technology enables brick-and-mortar auction houses to "broadcast" their auctions simultaneously over the Internet, and for online bidders to participate in the offline auctions. According to Amazon, LiveBid's software is the only one of its kind...

Report: Online Shopping Desire Overrides Privacy Concerns

A new survey of U.S. consumers conducted by Market Facts, Inc. reveals that privacy and security concerns still top the list of issues for Internet shoppers. The good news for online retailers is that these concerns are, by no means, a barrier to the explosive growth of consumer-driven e-commerce ...

Hewlett-Packard and BEA Systems Announce $100 Million E-Commerce Deal

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) and BEA Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced on Wednesday a broad strategic alliance as part of HP's e-services initiative. Reportedly, the purpose of this alliance is to provide HP's and BEA's customers with a complete software infrastructure for building reliable, high-performance e-commerce solutions and integrating enterprise applications...

Study: Asia Surpasses Europe in Information Technology Growth

The United States remains the world's dominant information economy, but smaller nations, such as Singapore, are progressing more quickly than traditional industrial countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Japan, according to the 1999 IDC/World Times Information Society Index (ISI) ...

Beyond.com Stock Soars on Completion of BuyDirect.com Deal

Wall Street applauded on Thursday when online software retailer Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) completed its acquisition of privately held competitor BuyDirect.com. Shares of Beyond.com rocketed 29 percent on Thursday, closing up 7-5/8 to 29-1/2 ...

1-800-U.S.Search Signs Up With Lycos

1-800-U.S.Search announced Wednesday that it has been selected as the exclusive public record reseller on the Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) Network, which includes Lycos, Tripod, Angelfire, WhoWhere and MailCity ...

D.G. Jewellery Partners with uBid & Amazon.com

In a two-day span, Canadian jewelry manufacturer and distributor D.G. Jewellery (Nasdaq: DGJL) has established a major auction presence -- on two competing Web sites: uBid (Nasdaq: UBID) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) ...

D.G. Jewellery Partners with uBid & Amazon.com

In a two-day span, Canadian jewelry manufacturer and distributor D.G. Jewellery (Nasdaq: DGJL) has established a major auction presence -- on two competing Web sites: uBid (Nasdaq: UBID) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) ...

Goldman Sachs Invests in Wit Capital

Wit Capital seems poised to become an online trading powerhouse. The online investment bank announced Monday that Goldman Sachs will make a minority equity investment in Wit Capital ...

CyberSource Announces Enhanced E-Commerce Technology

CyberSource Corporation, a provider of e-commerce transaction services, announced this week that has enhanced its eTransaction SuiteSM to include the Internet's first real-time delivery address verification service ...

VeriSign Announces New E-Commerce Services

VeriSign Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), a leading provider of e-commerce security services, unveiled a new series of Web site services that include 24x7 Web site performance monitoring, expanded availability of 128-bit Global Server digital certificates, expanded NetSure warranty coverage up to $250,000 (US$), guaranteed 2-day certificate delivery, and discounts on Certified Web Security training...

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