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Industry Coalition Launches Privacy Campaign

One week after music software provider Real Networks revealed that it secretly gathered and transmitted consumer information, a coalition of top Internet companies announced launch today of a major privacy awareness campaign ...

Universal Forms Internet-Based Record Label

Music giant Universal Music Group said today that it is forming a new record label that will "uniquely harness the strength and reach of the Internet," with America Online (NYSE: AOL) and others serving as key strategic partners ...

The Internet’s Best Kept Secret

E-tail success usually comes when a company outdoes its adversaries with a hard-hitting mix of product, price and ease-of-use ...

American Express Launches New Online Brokerage Site

American Express announced the launch of its American Express Brokerage today, becoming the latest in a series of traditional brick-and-mortar brokerages and financial firms to launch major online trading sites ...

Priceline Adds Name-Your-Own-Phone Rates

Name-your-price pioneer priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it will add long distance telephone calls to its offerings by the beginning of next year and will eventually offer a name-your-price business-to-business long distance service ...

Lycos Continues Japanese Push, Raises $32M

Less than a week after launching a localized Tripod online community site in Japan, Internet network Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) announced that it has raised $32 million (US$) from a major Japanese media company ...

Amazon Avoids Suit While AT&T Argues Appeal

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and AT&T found themselves traveling down different legal paths this week, as Amazon settled a lawsuit out of court while AT&T found itself arguing to overturn a court decision that would force it to open its cable lines to other Internet service providers ...

Amazon Avoids Suit While AT&T Argues Appeal

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and AT&T found themselves traveling down different legal paths this week, as Amazon settled a lawsuit out of court while AT&T found itself arguing to overturn a court decision that would force it to open its cable lines to other Internet service providers ...

Great Entertaining.com Gets $31M Cash Infusion

Online party supplier Great Entertaining.com announced yesterday that it has received second round funding of $31 million (US$) from a variety of venture capital firms ...

TicketMaster Online-City Search Integrates SideWalk City Sites Into Network

TicketMaster Online-CitySearch announced Monday that it has successfully folded 43 Microsoft SideWalk City sites into its network and will introduce its fully-integrated 77-city CitySearch sites this week ...

HomeGrocer.com Infused With Cash, Plans Expansion To 20 U.S. Cities

Online grocer HomeGrocer.com announced today that it has received an additional $100 million (US$) in financing and will dramatically expand its service to an estimated 20 markets across the United States ...

Softbank To Launch Japanese Online Auto Parts Venture

Japanese Internet conglomerate Softbank Corp. announced Monday that it plans to launch an online auto parts venture for the Japanese market with a major oil company and three other partners ...

eBay Buys Into Business Marketplace Company

Online auction site eBay is reportedly taking part in a $22 million (US$) backing of business surplus trader TradeOut.com ...

NSI Reports Sharp 3rd Quarter Domain Registrations Spike

Domain registrar Network Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL) reported today that registrations shot up sharply in the third quarter, with international registrations helping to fuel a growth that is expected to continue well into the next century ...

UK’s Freeserve Bids For Auction Market Share

Freeserve Plc, the United Kingdom's largest Internet Service Provider, announced today that it is joining an already-crowded field by launching an online auction site next month ...

E*Trade Takes Stake In Pan-European Stock Market

Online financial services company E*Trade Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGRP) continued its international push today by announcing that it has taken a 2.26 percent stake in Easdaq, a pan-European stock market for international growth and technology companies ...

NSI Cleared In Domain Name Lawsuit

A U.S Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that dominant domain name registrar Network Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL) is not legally responsible when it approves a domain name that results in a trademark infringement ...

IPIX And Bamboo.com Agree To $850 Million Merger

Interactive Pictures (Nasdaq: IPIX) and bamboo.com (Nasdaq: BAMB), two of the leading providers of interactive pictures for the Internet, announced today that they have agreed to a merger valued at approximately $850 million (US$) ...

Espanol.com Joins Crowded Spanish-Language Field

Shopping portal Espanol.com launched its service yesterday, becoming the latest in a long line of Spanish-language Web sites to target the Spanish-speaking market in the United States and Latin America ...

E-Commerce Patent Wars Break Out

We've seen big news in Internet lawsuits this week. Priceline attacks the 800-pound Microsoft gorilla for using the"name-your-own-price" business model, and Amazon tries to clobber arch-enemy barnesandnoble.com for using the "1-click" easy-to-buy technology. Are these actions simple coincidence, or is there something in the Internet water that's making these previously sweet dot-coms pick up the heavy artillery? ...

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