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Despite the fact that consumer fear of online credit card use is waning, e-commerce support company MerchantOnline.com is urging e-tailers to make their sites more debit-card friendly with its new MOLpay system MOLpay is geared toward those consumers who want to do the majority of their shopping on the Web. To use the system, shoppers must attach a...

United Parcel Service, in an effort to enhance its suite of online business options, has formed a strategic alliance with Network Solutions, Inc. The new union is intended to allow UPS customers to immediately register Web addresses on Network Solutions' Web site The agreement calls for Network Solutions to display a link to the UPS e-commerce Web ...

Business to business e-commerce solutions provider Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) announced yesterday that it has inked a deal with an Australian telecommunications company to establish a business-to-business marketplace portal for Australia and New Zealand The Walnut Creek, California-based company said the deal with Australia's Cable & Wireless Optu...

Web hosting company NaviSite will host Microsoft e-commerce applications as part of an enhanced application service provider (ASP) program that includes services for Windows NT Server, Site Server Commerce Edition, SQL Server and Windows Media Technologies NaviSite says that the new services will help customers launch e-commerce sites faster, at re...

This week, Internet business solutions provider Concentric Network Corp. (Nasdaq: CNCX) debuted an open-source Linux solution developed in collaboration with server appliance developer Cobalt Networks, Inc The new dedicated hosting solution -- ConcentricHost Managed Server Linux -- will utilize Cobalt's RaQ 2 server appliances to bring small-to- me...

Autoweb.com, Inc. announced today that it will now offer risk-free used car auctions on its next-generation Web site The Santa Clara, California-based online car seller claims that the new channel will eliminate the inherent risk of buying a used car online by offering a 72-hour money-back guarantee, a minimum three-month/3,000 mile limited warrant...

Media giant CBS Corp. has agreed to provide iWon.com with $70 million (US$) in advertising time and $30 million in cash in exchange for a majority stake in the closely-held Web portal The Irvington, New York-based iWon.com offers links to other popular Web sites, a search service, news, entertainment and chat rooms. In an effort to drive visitors t...

Leading pharmacy chain CVS Corporation (NYSE: CVS) and Merck-Medco Managed Care L.L.C., one of the country's foremost providers of prescription drug care, announced today that CVS will be the exclusive provider of over-the-counter medicine and general health products for Merck-Medco's online business The agreement paves the way for Merck-Medco's 51...

Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq: SEEK) and The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) added auctions to their GO Network Internet portal Wednesday, becoming the fourth of the top six Internet domains to host its own auction service Yahoo!, America Online and MSN.com, the top three domains ranked by Media Metrix, have led the auction charge, while Yahoo!'s Geocities an...

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., the eventual saturation of the e-commerce marketplace will be responsible for creating a new breed of super e-marketers known as "post-Web retailers." The report estimates that by 2004, more than 49 million U.S. households will spend over $184 billion (US$) online. Given the number and scope o...

IBM and AT&T announced today that they will join forces to develop, market and distribute end-to-end e-commerce packages for small and mid-sized companies The world's largest computer maker and the world's largest telecommunications provider launched the "technology alliance" to reduce the complexity of developing e-commerce Web sites. The turnkey ...

U.S. Customs agents report that American companies are losing $200 billion (US$) each year to piracy over the Internet, and that the problem is expected to dwarf every other type of crime in the new millennium The global software industry alone lost $11 billion to piracy in 1998, according to the Software and Information Industry Association. The ...

American Express (NYSE: AXP) announced today that it will expand its online trading presence by launching a new online brokerage. The new American Express Brokerage, set to debut later this fall, will combine online investment and financial planning tools with access to financial advisors Ruediger Adolf, senior vice president for strategic planning...

Things Remembered, Inc., America's largest retailer of personalized gifts, launched Thingsremembered.com yesterday in an attempt to position itself to capture the lion's share of online holiday gift shopping A division of Cole National Corporation (NYSE: CNJ), Things Remembered has more than 800 retail locations nationwide. With the addition of the...

Internet and network security solutions provider CRYPTOCard's authentication server is set to ship with the application CD that will be included in boxed editions of the forthcoming Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Linux operating system (OS) The CRYPTOAdmin 4.0 authentication server, coupled with the add-on API toolkit, will enable Red Hat users to add valu...

In yet another effort to translate a common brick-and-mortar retail concept to cyberspace, Spun.com unveiled a new site yesterday that will provide Internet surfers with a market to buy, sell and trade CDs Like its real-world counterparts, Spun.com pays for used CDs based on demand for each specific title. Therefore, the price Spun.com will pay var...

In an effort to outduel the U.S. Post Office and FedEx for the steadily-growing number of Internet sales shipments, United Parcel Service will introduce free "fenced" Internet service next year that will permit companies without Web access to utilize its online services The shipping giant, which receives more than a million package tracking request...

Through newly-established alliances with Dell Computer Corporation and MCI/WorldCom subsidiary UUNET, Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) will attempt to foster e-commerce in the chemical industry by offering hardware and Internet access to its customers "This is not about technology, this is about customer service, said Fred Buehler, Eastman's dir...

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 Lycos Ventures said it has invested in LifeMinders.com, a provider of personal e-mail reminders, Conducent, a prov...

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 CD Warehouse will bring 340 CD Warehouse, Disc Go Round, CD Exchange and Music Reader stores in 40 states, Canada, England, ...