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America Online Gets Stylish

America Online (NYSE: AOL) is becoming a little more fashionable and a little richer ...

CMGI Buys Majority Stake of Compaq’s Altavista

For about a week, Wall Street had been buzzing about a possible deal between Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) and computer manufacturer Compaq (Nasdaq: CPQ). The companies made it official today ...

MSN Expedia Gets Radio Show

For e-commerce companies, raising brand awareness through offline promotion can be an extremely costly yet crucial part of their marketing strategy. On Friday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that it had scored a significant coup in that regard ...

Autobytel.com Makes Deal To Offer Insurance

For first-time automobile buyers, one of the few things as frustrating as visiting a car dealership is figuring out which insurance company to use. On Thursday, online auto retailer Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) announced a partnership that could help customers avoid that hassle ...

Musicland Launches E-Commerce Stores

Music and entertainment retailer Musicland (NYSE: MLG) is hoping that e-commerce will turn its fortunes around. Musicland, which operates more than 1,300 brick-and-mortar stores including Sam Goody, Suncoast, MediaPlay and OnCue, announced Wednesday that it has launched e-commerce stores for all of its brick-and-mortar brands ...

Banking Giants Form Online Billing Venture

Banks like electronic billing because it is cost-efficient and can be faster than traditional forms of securing payment ...

CMGI Invests in BizBuyer.com

Last month, business-to-business online marketplace BizBuyer.com announced a $1 million (US$) seed round of financing from investors including eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman. Today, the buyer-drive marketplace -- founded in September of 1998 and based in Santa, Monica, California -- was greatly bolstered with the announcement of a $5 million commitment from @Ventures, the venture-capital arm of leading Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI)...

Yahoo! Launches New Auction Program For Merchants

In a direct blow to Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) auction strategy, leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) unveiled a new program today that is designed to help sellers with large inventories of items manage their auctions more efficiently ...

Starbucks, Oxygen Media to Offer a New Blend

Starbucks' e-commerce plans have been the source of much speculation ever since news of the company's possible e-commerce and portal plans began to circulate last month. Things became a little more clear on Thursday, when the specialty coffee retailer announced a strategic alliance with Oxygen Media, a high-profile media company that publishes a network of Web sites for women and is working to develop a cable channel...

Stock Watch : Oracle Stock Takes Off

On Wednesday, the day the Nasdaq gained a record 103.16 points as concerns about inflation abated, software company Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) was the darling of Wall Street. Shares of Oracle, which develops software that powers companies including Amazon.com and Excite, climbed more than 31 percent, rising 7-13/16 to 32-15/16 ...

AOL Buys Into Online Marketing

Online marketing suddenly looks like a red-hot industry. One day after online advertising company DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) announced a $1 billion deal to purchase market research firm Abacus Direct, America Online (NYSE: AOL) grabbed a bigger piece of the online marketing pie ...

Better Homes and Gardens Embraces E-Commerce

Better Homes and Gardens magazine is trying to turn traditional shoppers into e-commerce enthusiasts. That was made clear on Monday when the magazine's parent company, Meredith Corporation, (NYSE: MDP) announced an integrated publishing program called "Shop Online." ...

eBay Tries To Recover from Outage

Late Friday night, leading online auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) apologized for a service outage that had crippled its site for nearly 24 hours. By that time, however, the damage had already been done. Disgruntled eBay customers vented their frustrations on online message boards and eBay stock fell more than nine percent, dropping 16-13/16 to 165-7/8 on Friday...

Paul Allen’s Companies Partnering Up

It seemed like only a matter of time before the various companies that have Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as an investor started signing deals. One such deal was announced on Thursday. Mercata, a new e-commerce company that helps consumers get together as a group to receive discounts on merchandise, announced that it has partnered with online network Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET) to create a new category on Go2Net's shopping channel...

Symantec Spinoff Will Focus on E-Commerce

In a move that could add shareholder value, leading utility software provider Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced today that it plans to spin off its Internet Tools business unit to create a new, independent company ...

Stock Watch : Value America Defies Market

Another company that defied Wall Street's downward trend on Tuesday was online superstore Value America (Nasdaq: VUSA). Shares of Value America climbed 23.5 percent, rising 4-7/16 to 23-5/16, one day after announcing six new board members ...

Autobytel.com Sets Pace With Yahoo! Deal

Leading online automobile dealer Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) is increasing its reach in the $370 billion (US$) used car market with a new deal with top portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO). Autobytel will offer thousands of certified pre-owned vehicles for sale through Yahoo! Autos, a service that allows users to research, buy and sell new and used cars...

E*OFFERING Launches Web Site

Online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC), which went public on Friday, suddenly has some major competition. On Monday, online investment bank E*OFFERING, which is backed by online broker E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP), launched its Web site ...

IRS Deal Boosts Beyond.com

The latest boost for e-commerce is coming from the United States government. Online software superstore Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) was a top performer on Wall Street on Friday, one day after the company announced a major deal with the Internal Revenue Service ...

Travelocity’s Sales Soar High

Online travel agent Travelocity.com reinforced its position as an industry leader on Thursday. This brings up the issue of whether Travelocity.com will fly higher and become a public company or remain part of holding company The Sabre Group (Nasdaq: TSG) ...

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