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Chinese Portals Battle for Attention, Visitors

Perhaps hoping to puncture the high hopes China.com built up this week with its successful stock debut, top competitor SINA.com announced today it remains the top portal in China. SINA.com, which has been online since 1995, cited a recently released survey by the China Network Information Center, an official Internet statistics agency in China Acco...

Tribune Media Sends Online Shoppers to the Movies

A major media company and an emerging online network for broadband-enabled consumers are teaming up to offer an alternative for movie fans who are tired of waiting in long lines at their local theater. Today, Tribune Media Services, which is a subsidary of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), and On2.com (AMEX: ONT), which is creating a network of Web channels that deliver video-rich, interactive content via broadband, are working together to launch a new service that will offer online ticketing for more than 29,000 movie screens nationwide...

uBid Forms Business Auction Alliance

In a concerted effort to become a dominant player in the business-to-business auction market, uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) announced Thursday that it formed an alliance with business magazine publisher, Cahners, to introduce real time electronic bidding to potentially millions of targeted readers The alliance will give uBid an inside track to holding ...

UK Firm Provides Security For New Global Banking Initiative

Baltimore Technologies, (London: BLM) a provider of e-commerce and enterprise security solutions with main offices in London and Dublin, this week announced a strategic partnership with Identrus, the global trust organization Baltimore's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been deployed by Identrus to secure the operational pilot of its new interna...

Red Hat and Global Knowledge Team Up To Offer Linux Certification

Linux operating system (OS) vendor Red Hat, Inc. this week announced a partnership with Global Knowledge Network, an independent IT training company, to advance the open-source cause through a new exams-based certification program Global Knowledge, under terms of the partnership, will provide what Red Hat describes as "real-world, hands-on training...

Online Digital Music Still Faces Major Obstacles

Big players in the music industry must overcome "security paranoia" if they ever hope to profit from digital music as it enters the mainstream, according to a recent report by Jupiter Communications Jupiter's research showed that only 3 percent of online consumers will purchase downloaded music by 2003. This gives the music industry a window of opp...

Will Webvan Flatten $500 Billion Grocery Industry?

Online grocer Webvan Group, Inc. fired a salvo across the shopping carts of the brick-and-mortar supermarket industry last week, when it announced that within two years it would be delivering Web ordered groceries free-of-charge in 26 major markets throughout the United States. Moreover, some analysts speculate the move could be the first step in the eventual restructuring of the $500 billion (US$) per year grocery business...

iCat E-Commerce UK Invasion

British Telecommunications plc (BT) last week announced an agreement with the iCat E-Commerce Provider Program to offer e-commerce services to its 1.3 million small to mid-sized business customers through the newly created BT StoreCentre. iCat, a division of Intel Corp., joined in the announcement iCat provides services and support for small to mid...

E-Commerce Security Alert: BO2K Hacking Tool

While hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) held a press conference, announcing the release of Back Orifice 2000 (BO2K) to a throng of celebrants attending the DEFCON convention in Las Vegas, researchers were anxiously awaiting their own copy in order to provide users with a defense Consisting of a server and client application, BO2K is a backdoo...

Industry Leaders to Gather in France for E-Commerce Summit

A group of major Internet companies from all continents plans to offer governments and international organizations its e-commerce expertise in a conference at Paris' famed Louvre museum The group -- calling itself the Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce -- has slated the conference for September 13th and hopes to act as "the global voic...

Penguin Offers Linux Support in 16 Languages

Penguin Computing, a provider of Linux-based hardware solutions, has announced that it will offer sales and technical support in 15 languages in addition to English, including Arabic, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chiuchow, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese "Linux is well on its way to beco...

FTC Sides with Private Sector on Internet Privacy Issues

The Federal Trade Commission Tuesday uttered the one word Internet companies have been dying to hear from the U.S. government: self-regulation FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky and three commissioners, testifying before the House Commerce Committee's Telecommunications Subcommittee, presented a report essentially agreeing with the private sector that In...

Yahoo! Launches Auctions in Germany

Although it still appears as if eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is the clear leader in online auctions, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is making a big push to grab a piece of the international market. Today, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Germany has launched a German version of Yahoo!'s auction service The service provides sellers with a vehicle to market items in many ...

Columbia House Swallows Up CDNow

The name that has become synonymous with direct mail music sales is now about to swallow up one of the Internet's retail music pioneers. CDNow Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNW) plans to merge with Columbia House, the music and video club owned by Sony Corp. of America (NYSE: SNE) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Sony and Time Warner will each own 37 percent of the new company, with the rest owned by CDNow's shareholders...

E*Trade Sharpens Global Vision With TIR Acquisition

Recognizing that there are indeed some borders in cyberspace, leading online financial services company E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced Tuesday that it would buy TIR Holdings Limited for $122 million (US$) in stock. The deal is aimed at accelerating E*Trade's efforts to build a cross-border global trading network With headquarters in Dublin, Irela...

iMall Snapped Up By Excite@Home For $425 Million

Media company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) put an end to e-commerce solutions provider iMall (Nasdaq: IMAL) stockholder's lament about Wall Street's lack of attention when it announced Tuesday that it would issue $425 million (US$) in stock to acquire the company Excite@Home also announced an agreement with e-commerce transaction processor, First Dat...

DoubleClick, NetGravity Deliver a Double Whammy

In a strategically timed set of announcements, DoubleClick Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK) and NetGravity Inc. (Nasdaq: NETG) said Tuesday they plan to merge, just as each prepares to report record second quarter revenues It was unclear how Wall Street would view the collective announcements in the long term, however. DoubleClick stock dropped $3.25 per share ...

Verio Swallows digitalNATION in $100 Million Deal

The Web hosting server market is growing rapidly as more businesses go online, and the popular domain-based Web hosting company Verio (Nasdaq: VRIO) is tapping into this expanding market Today, Verio, which provides Internet services for online businesses, announced the acquisition of privately held digitalNATION, which is a provider of server Web ...

E-Commerce Service Provider Offers Free E-Mail Virus Scanning

The Electric Mail Company, Inc. (VSE: ELE) last week announced the availability of its free E-mmunity Outbound e-mail virus scanning service. With recent virus-related incidents, such as the proliferation of ExploreZip, spread by way of e-mail contact, such services are certainly gaining more attention from consumers and the media The new outbound ...

Traditional Retailers Show Unexpected E-Commerce Savvy

Conventional wisdom might lead us to believe that Web-only businesses are much better at selling their wares online than traditional retailers who have recently jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon The Internet has a way of defying convention however, and a new study by Nielsen/NetRatings reveals that brick-and-mortar converts can turn lookers into b...

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