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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 The San Francisco, California-based company, which launched its site last month, disclosed that original investor Benchmark Capital had doubled its investment. Technology Crossover V...
Software vendor Corel Corp. (Nasdaq: CORL) has entered into a strategic OEM alliance with PC Chips to help build a customer base for its new distribution of the Linux operating system (OS) Under the terms of the agreement, companies in the PC Chips group will bundle Corel LINUX with computer motherboard packages shipped to the U.S., Canada and inte...
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), one of the computing industry's early innovators but now a company playing catch-up in the online shopping business, has launched its new MSN eShop in an effort to reach out to consumers and merchants alike The benefits of online shopping malls for consumers have already been widely touted by the hoards of companies ...
Industry titan Microsoft has entered into strategic online distribution deals with utility software vendors Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro, Inc. in an attempt to help businesses that use the Internet get ready to handle Y2K-related viruses and other potential mayhem Under the terms of the agreement with Symantec, Microsoft will offer a downloadable...
Ford (NYSE:F) and General Motors (NYSE:GM), two of the big three U.S. automakers, have announced separate but similar initiatives to broaden the supply side of their businesses by establishing links with their suppliers over the Internet Ford will enter a joint venture with Oracle Corporation, the database software maker, creating a link between th...
Last Friday, when U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson decided to delay the first phase of his verdict in the Microsoft antitrust case, I wondered how the hiatus affected the personal comfort level of one William F. Gates III. For all anybody knows, Gates may be such a cool customer that he is not worried in the least about the outcome. After all, Microsoft's extraordinary wealth and past track record have many believing that the outcome is merely a formality.
With an increasing body of research indicating that brand name awareness is a key to success on the Internet, e-businesses are finding that their real challenge is educating the consumer about what products and services are available online Accordingly, e-tailers -- noting that nearly every American home has at least one television set --are findin...
House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley's move to push the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act through the House of Representatives without the blessing of House leadership has backfired and resulted in defeat The measure, which was defeated Monday, garnered enough votes to pass under standard house procedures, but Bliley...
Boston, Massachusetts-based Inc. Magazine announced today that it has launched a Web site that is designed to deliver management resources to small business owners. As part of a cross-marketing agreement, the new portal will showcase content from the E-Commerce Times, and the E-Commerce Times will feature Inc.com material in its Small Business Advisor section...
In a broad three-year alliance between two leading interactive media and entertainment companies, America Online (NYSE: AOL) will invest $30 million (US$) and take an equity stake in Viacom subsidiary Blockbuster.com The deal will make Blockbuster a premier video provider on AOL's Entertainment Channel via a co-branded site that is scheduled to be ...
Bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in iUniverse.com, a company which bills itself as the largest Internet publishing portal iUniverse.com aims to empower out-of-print writers and new writers with publishing services that they are unable to get from traditional publishers.
Last Friday, when shares of Internet technology company Akamai skyrocketed 450 percent in its Wall Street debut, the event confirmed what many industry observers already knew We need a faster Internet.
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 Softbank will own 46 percent of the eShopping! CarGoods Corp., while oil company Nippon Mitsubishi will hold a 24 percent stake.
E-Stamp Corp. and Intuit, Inc. announced today that they have joined forces to provide Internet postage to the more than two million small businesses that use Intuit's accounting software Under the agreement, E-Stamp will be the only Internet postage service integrated into Intuit's QuickBooks desktop application. The multiyear deal includes invest...
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 The Kirkland, Washington-based company said that the fourth-round of financing was led by minority shareholder Amazon.com, as well as Kleiner Per...
As it looks to promote trusted internationale-commerce, Credit Bancorp Ltd. partner CBL WorldKey LLC has launched a new open-standard public key infrastructure (PKI)-based security service that is designed to guarantee a variety of online transactions. Global Peak Certification Authority (GPCA), the new service, taps into the power of digital certificates provided by the World Internet Secure Electronic Key Organisation (WISeKey). Digital certificates, based upon encryption technology, provide digitized signatures and incorporate user-selected and authenticated attributes for secure online transactions.
IBM and Internet service provider Conxion Corporation announced today that 13 dot-com companies have joined the first class of its joint incubator program scheduled for launch on November 16th Additionally, another 12 dot-coms are set to launch the second class of the program on January 15, 2000.
Toys "R" Us, Inc. announced yesterday that it has signed a two-year agreement with America Online that will give it anchor placement in the Toys department of the Kids, Toys and Babies category in the new Shop@AOL Additionally, the brick-and-mortar toy giant's Web site will be promoted across other AOL brands, including AOL.COM, Netscape, CompuServ...
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 TMCS bought the 43 SideWalk City sites from Microsoft in July for $240 million (US$) in stock. Microsoft received a nine percent stake in TMCS wi...
Bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in iUniverse.com, a company which bills itself as the largest Internet publishing portal iUniverse.com aims to empower out-of-print writers and new writers with publishing services that they are unable to get from traditional publishers.
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