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Online postage retailer E-Stamp Corp. has received a $5 million (US$) infusion of cash from two German companies and will use it to build on the 10,000 customers it has signed up since launching August 9th E-Stamp lined up Deutsche Post, the largest postal service in Europe, and Deutsche Telekom, the leading telecommunications service provider in G...

Dell Computer Corp. has announced a partnership with Internet service provider Excite@Home Corp. that will make it possible for its customers to sign up for a high-speed Internet connection when they buy a desktop or notebook computer from the PC maker Dell will begin offering the service today as part of its new "Dell4 me" program. Customers livin...

National Internet service providers EarthLink(Nasdaq: ELNK) and MindSpring (Nasdaq: MSPG) announced a merger today that would create the nation's second-largest ISP and "offer a clear alternative to AOL." Slated to be called EarthLink and be traded on the Nasdaq exchange as "ELNK," the new company would have a combined three million customers, a ma...

China's head regulator of foreign investments recently delivered a frank message to all Western companies who have been planning to pump billions into the Communist country's Internet infrastructure: Foreigners need not apply Wu Jichuan, the head of the Ministry of Information Industries, told Western companies that all online businesses were off-l...

Borrowing a marketing lesson from the rapid rise of telephone calling cards, Cybermoola Inc. introduced a pre-paid debit card yesterday that is designed to let teens purchase items online without needing access to a parent or guardian's credit card Cybermoola is a secure online payment system that ensures that there are sufficient funds available b...

Executives at Sony Corporation of America and Time Warner announced Wednesday that 42 year-old Scott Flanders has been chosen to lead the new publicly-traded company that will emerge from the merger of CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW) and music marketer Columbia House Flanders will become the CEO of the new company after U.S. and Canadian regulators and CDNow ...

Online shopping mall OutletZoo.com is attempting to revolutionize the online shopping market by selling brand name merchandise through its proprietary "automatic price drop" system. The technology, which was developed by JEM Computers, drives prices as low as the market will bear through a virtual inverse of online auctions The site gives shoppers ...

Job recruiting site CollegeHire.com announced today that it will mount a nationwide campaign to recruit college students for Amazon.com. CollegeHire's goal is to deliver young, talented information technology graduates to the online bookseller "We are eager to meet with college talent that shares our vision of customer service and has a passion for...

Ohio government officials and private industry leaders will commit more than half a million dollars over the next three years to developing an e-commerce plan for the state. The program, which is intended to keep Ohio ahead of the e-commerce curve, will receive $450,000 (US$) in state funds More than 50 Ohio business, industry and government leader...

Name-your-price pioneer priceline.com will license its patented business method to WebHouse Club, Inc. and start marketing groceries to 11 million consumers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Priceline.com has warrants to become the majority stakeholder in the venture, which is backed by $65 million (US$) in venture capital. WebHouse Club, Inc...

Leading portal and high-speed Internet access company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) announced Wednesday that it will create a joint venture with a German cable operator and its parent company to bring high-speed cable Internet access to 2.2 million German homes The joint venture between Excite@Home, cable operator Tele-Columbus and its parent company,...

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) has announced that its Oracle8i for Linux, a database designed specifically for the Internet, has been certified to run on the Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) distribution of the open-source operating system (OS). The announcement officially launches a strategic partnership between the two companies that is aimed at advancing corporate adoption of Linux...

Last week, while testifying before the Advisory Commission of Electronic Commerce, a group of bureaucrats -- also known as state and local government officials -- sang a familiar tune. They hummed a few bars, did a little soft-shoe, and claimed that public safety and public education will deteriorate without sales tax revenue from e-commerce To hea...

JB Oxford & Co. (Nasdaq: JBOH), one of dozens of stock brokers that have added an online trading arm to their standard Wall Street trading services, has further expanded its purview by becoming an Internet service provider In its new "npower" service, Oxford packages unlimited free Internet access and electronic banking with its online trading serv...

PC Week has issued an open challenge to hackers everywhere by offering $1,000 (US$) to anyone who can penetrate the security of a special Web site that is running both Windows NT and Linux In what it calls a major test of the security of the two platforms -- NT and Linux -- PC Week Labs has created a Web site with comparable classified-ads engine a...

A new report by Forrester Research, Inc. predicts that mobile phones -- not PCs -- will drive the growth of Italian e-commerce. Over the next three years, Italy is expected to narrow its e-commerce gap with other European players through a combination of new mobile services and partnerships The study found that Italy's struggle to keep pace with Eu...

This week, Caldera Systems, Inc. entered into a distribution deal with Tech Data Corp. (Nasdaq: TECD), fueling speculation that the Orem, Utah-based Linux vendor could be "the next Red Hat." Tech Data, an e-commerce solutions provider, recently announced a Linux Support Center The deal will help to push Caldera Systems' line of business and end-use...

Excite@Home announced today that it has formed an alliance with privately held AirFlash.com to provide content for wireless handheld devices. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed The deal could be significant, according to some industry observers, because the Redwood City, California-based AirFlash.com claims to be the first and only portal pr...

Last week, when shares of America Online, Inc. fell 6.3 percent amid investor fears that its competitors would soon be giving Internet service away, AOL announced that it expects to meet profit forecasts Additionally, the number one Internet service provider asked its shareholders to allow it to issue an additional 4.2 billion shares, increasing it...

Online business information provider Hoover's Online (Nasdaq: HOOV) announced a year-long agreement today with Consumer Financial Network, an e-commerce platform for financial services. In addition to offering financial planning services to Hoover's users, Consumer Financial Network will be the primary sponsor of a co-branded insurance area on Hoover's new Money channel...