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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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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 (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...

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) ...

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 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 ...

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) ...

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) ...

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 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 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...