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Amazon Sues Barnesandnoble.com For Patent Infringement

Internet powerhouse Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed a lawsuit yesterday against barnesandnoble.com, claiming that its 1-Click technology patent has been infringed upon ...

U.S. Shut Out In Internet Domain Agency Elections

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held their inaugural elections this week, voting in three of the first 18 members of a board that will assume responsibility on important Internet policies such as domain name registration and trademark disputes ...

China.com Reportedly Mulling Hong Kong Sell-Off

Asian Internet service provider and portal China.com (Nasdaq: CHINA) is eyeing the possibility of selling its Hong Kong unit in an effort to raise $1 billion (US$), according to reports published yesterday ...

Stamps.com To Be Exclusive AOL E-Postage Provider

Online postage provider Stamps.com(Nasdaq: STMP) and America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced a three-year, $56 million (US$) alliance today that will make the Santa Monica, California-based Stamps.com the exclusive provider of Internet postage across AOL's brands. The deal also calls for AOL to make a multi-million dollar investment in Stamps.com. The exact figure was not disclosed.

HIV Counseling Service Turns To E-Commerce Technology

Home Access Health, an Illinois-based drug company, announced at the Internet Commerce Expo in San Francisco, California that it is using the technology of FaceTime Communications to provide online counseling for HIV patients ...

ThinkTank.com Gets $200M Bankroll From Softbank

Newly created Internet incubator ThinkTank.com announced today that it has received $200 million (US$) in capital from Softbank, the internationally-recognized Japanese Internet investor ...

Lycos Targets Latin Markets On Two Continents

Online community Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) added to its already-formidable international presence today by announcing the launch of 12 sites in Latin America and two Spanish-speaking sites in the U.S ...

AOL’s German Service Draws One Million Subscribers

America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that its AOL Germany service has surpassed one million members, making it the first AOL service outside of the United States to break the mark ...

AltaVista Launches Swedish Site

Poised for a major re-launch later this month by new parent company CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI), global Web directory AltaVista announced today that it has launched a Swedish site ...

U.K. B2B Marketplace Launches U.S. Site

Calling itself one of the world's first online business to business marketplaces for small and medium-sized companies, mondus.com announced the launch of their U.S.-based site yesterday ...

Microsoft Gives E-Books A Boost With Literary Award

The innovative but still commercially unknown e-book industry received a boost from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) today when the software giant announced that it will sponsor an e-book literary award with a $100,000 (US$) first prize ...

Phone.com Gets European Foothold With Northern Ireland Acquisition

Phone.com (Nasdaq: PHCM), a leading maker of Internet-browsing software for wireless phones, announced yesterday at the Telecom '99 show in Geneva, Switzerland that it has signed an agreement to acquire Apion Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ireland for $239 million (US$) in stock ...

IBM and Excite@Home Ink Global Pact

Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) and IBM(NYSE: IBM) announced a global alliance today that places the Excite portal at the fingertips of users of IBM's Aptiva line of personal computers ...

Homestore.com Plays ‘Fair’ For $85 Million

Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) added another member to its family of real estate-related sites today by announcing an agreement to buy Homefair.com from Central Newspapers (NYSE: ECP) for $85 million (US$) ...

Mortgage.com Expands B2B Base With Acquisitions

Online mortgage lender mortgage.com (Nasdaq: XDCM) announced today that it has agreed to acquire three subsidiaries of a North Carolina holding company, significantly expanding its network of purchase-money mortgage lending in the business-to-business sector ...

Microsoft, Israeli ISP to Launch Hebrew Language Portal

Internet Gold (Nasdaq: IGLD), a leading Israeli ISP, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to establish a portal that will feature a Hebrew language search service ...

E-Loan Gets $26 Million to Back European Foray

Online lender E-Loan (Nasdaq: EELN) announced today that it has received $26 million (US$) to help finance its push to gain a share of the online financial services market in Europe ...

Intuit to Buy Rock Financial For $370 Million

Intuit, Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) announced today that it will pay $370 million (US$) in stock to acquire Rock Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: RCCI), a Michigan-based mortgage lender ...

CD Warehouse, CD Plus Announce Merger

Oklahoma City-based CD Warehouse, Inc.(Nasdaq: CDWI) and Canadian music retailer CD Plus.com Ltd. announced today that they have signed a letter of intent to merge and create the fourth-largest music retailer in North America ...

Lycos Ventures Invests First $8 Million

A newly-created investment fund backed by Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) and a group of venture capital firms announced today that it has invested $8 million (US$) in three companies, two of which have recently filed for initial public offerings ...

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