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Rite Aid (NYSE, PSE: RAD) and General Nutrition Companies (Nasdaq: GNCI) announced plans Thursday to develop a co-branded online store, selling nutrition and dietary supplements. With a full $9 million (US) earmarked for advertising and marketing the site, the companies clearly hope to compete with the new online drugstore announced earlier this week by AOL in partnership with PlanetRx, and other pharmacies like CVS that already offer online ordering for prescription refills...

Integrated Information Systems (IIS) announced the release of a new web-based order management system that automates e-commerce order processing. By reducing the back-office steps involved with processing online sales, IIS hopes the new system will help e-commerce sites reduce costs, and improve profitability IIS teamed up with Microsoft to produce...

iMALL (Nasdaq: IMAL) will be adding 14 new major brands to its product-based shopping portal, Stuff.com. The new brands will bring Stuff.com's product line to more than 2 million, raising the stakes in the crowded Internet mall segment, which includes rival shopping channels at AOL, Infoseek, and Lycos New brands to be added include Toys "R" Us (NY...

GeoCities (Nasdaq: GCTY) today announced an agreement with InterWorld Corp. to license and integrate InterWorld's e-commerce technology into the next generation of GeoShops, GeoCities' online merchant sites, as well as its branded online commerce site, GeoStore This latest development indicates that GeoCities is increasingly interested in e-commerc...

SkyMall Inc. (Nasdaq:SKYM) launched skymall.com, a wholly owned subsidiary that will focus on e-commerce, direct online sales, and distribution of its consumer products to online resellers. By late morning Thursday, the company's stock soared 30% on this news SkyMall is best known for its in-flight product catalogs. In addition, the company has mad...

America Online (Nasdaq: AOL) announced its plan to debut a new online drugstore in partnership with PlanetRx. This partnership will position AOL to compete against popular pharmaceutical drugstore chains, such as Genovese Drug, CVS Corporation, Rite Aid Corporation, and Duane Reade The new site will enable consumers to fill existing prescriptions a...

The E-Commerce Times has entered into a news content and revenue-sharing agreement with Internet Wire, Inc. Under the agreement, the E-Commerce Times will provide co-branded pages containing daily e-commerce news headlines, to be linked from Internet Wire's main homepage and from Internet Wire's new Financial Center pages The E-Commerce Times and I...