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Number one online service AOL has announced a cross-promotional agreement with Gateway, Inc. that will pump $800 million (US$) in cash and stock into the number two computer reseller The deal will give America Online about 5 percent of Gateway, which will in turn receive a $180 million investment in AOL stock.
Earlier this week, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. responded to its troubles by announcing that it will split its digital properties off into a separate company and revamp its Web site to offer the contents of its 32-volume set online for free Following in the footsteps of other populare-commerce Web portals, Britannica.com's site will be supported ...
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 In the first round of elections, the United States' two candidates for the...
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania-based Traffic.com, a company which provides real-time and predictive traffic information to both businesses and consumers, announced today that it has completed its $19 million (US$) second round of funding The round includes money from Internet Capital Group, the Internet incubator that focuses on business-to-businesse-comm...
Office.com, an online business service from Winstar Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:WCII), has formed partnerships with six leading providers of products for small and medium-sized businesses. A fourth-quarter launch is planned The new alliance, which is designed to be an effort to develop more expedient business-to-business e-commerce, includes barne...
Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) launched its new PowerRankings service today, joining the crowd of research companies that are offering Web shoppers ranking services to help them navigate the merchant maze Forrester will now compete with research companies such as Media Metrix, PC Data and StatMarket, and dozens of consumer information services s...
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 The Dana Point, California-based ThinkTank.com -- which was created by Buy.com founder Scott Blum -- will be a Southern California affiliate of Softbank's new HotB...
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 Calling it the most comprehensive philanthropy portal on the Internet, the AOL Foundation said that the non-...
According to new research by the Yankee Group, nearly 10 million U.S. homes will be digitally remodeled with home networking in the next four years The Boston, Massachusetts-based research firm led a home-networking forum in Santa Clara, California this week, during which executives from Microsoft, Motorola, 3Com, Sony, Lucent and Sun Microsystems...
Business software solutions provider Mainsoft Corp. is moving its MainWin product, a Windows platform developed for UNIX, to the realm of the Linux open-source operating system (OS) The move will, according to Mainsoft, accelerate the growth of Linux in the enterprise by expanding the development rate of business-critical applications available for...
As part of an effort to turn around its losses, CompUSA launched a re-designed e-commerce Web site earlier this week By doing so, the number one brick-and-mortar retailer of PCs hopes to double the number of visitors it attracts to the Internet.
Just two months after online toy seller eToys, Inc. announced European expansion plans, it has launched a United Kingdom version of its popular Web site The site, www.etoys.co.uk, marks the first time that the Santa Monica, California-based company has ventured outside of the United States.
In a poll of 500 Latin American companies, International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that 85 percent of the respondents are currently using or plan to use e-commerce within the next two years, and that Microsoft continues to dominate the mindshare market among companies in the region "Overall, Latin America-based e-commerce can be characterize...
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 FaceTime technology was originally designed to enable e-commerce sites to provide live, real-time customer service functions...
As e-businesses continue to turn their attention to ethnically-oriented Web sites, some minority groups in the United States are finally beginning to reap the benefits of the Internet's relentless expansion With 30 million Spanish-speaking people in the United States alone, the revenue potential of Spanish-language Web sites and services is drawing...
With a new program from PenOp, a digital signature software developer, palm-top organizer owners can sign their names on the screens of their organizers and transmit those signatures over the Internet as legally binding approval on electronic documents PenOp's PocketSign is reportedly the first electronic handwritten signature capture program for p...
According to a survey released by online research service E-BuyersGuide.com, the majority of e-tailers acknowledge the importance of customer satisfaction with the purchasing process The report also showed that, as consumer sites struggle to attract and retain customers, 49 percent of e-tailers surveyed said that they plan to spend significantly mo...
In a move seen by some analysts as an effort to trump chief rival Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, AOL announced yesterday that it is expanding its Digital City guides from 60 to more than 200 cities by early next year Both companies currently offer local entertainment listings, tourist guides, restaurant listings, dating services and ticket orderin...
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 The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company launched localized content sites in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Venezuela. It also launched l...
Women's online portal iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL) announced today that it will partner with eight brand-name retailers to launch a women's shopping service The partners will bring together both online and offline brands, including Gap.com, Garden.com, Macys.com, Nordstrom.com, Gloss.com, Petopia.com, PlanetRx.com and Tavolo. The program will also inclu...
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