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With the issue of Internet regulation shifting front and center on the global agenda, the 19-member National Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce reconvened Tuesday for a two-day meeting in New York The commission -- made up of Internet industry executives, trade lobbying groups and local, state and federal officials -- will once gain grapple...

The Reader's Digest Association (NYSE RDA) announced today that it has teamed up with Startek, Inc. (NYSE: SRT) to create gifts.com, an online gift shopping service. Reader's Digest is the most widely read magazine in the world, with a paid circulation of about 15 million Reader's Digest and its Good Catalog Company subsidiary will contribute prope...

TheLinuxStore.com, a division of EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZ), further fueled the Linux movement this week by offering e-commerce patrons a low-end PC that ships with a factory-installed copy of the open-source operating system (OS) by Wall Street sensation Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) A fully-configured Intel Celeron 333 MHz processor-driven sy...

Leading office superstore Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) announced today that it is forming a new class of common stock to track the company's e-commerce performance The Framingham, Massachusetts-based company believes that a stock called Staples.com will allow it to "aggressively pursue electronic commerce." The move, which was approved by the compa...

Last week, Microsoft Corp. and government lawyers met to make their final rebuttals before the judge renders his initial ruling on the antitrust case against the software giant U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson also ordered both sides to present their final written versions of the facts of the case, which approached 1,000 pages each.

According to BizRate.com's second quarter Consumer Online Report, computers and related accessories continue to lead the charge of consumer buying on the Internet Sales figures from the second quarter showed that computer goods accounted for 41.4 percent of all online sales from April through June. Overall online sales for the period -- $2.56 billi...

America Online (NYSE: AOL) and online florist 1-800-Flowers.com (Nasdaq: FLWS) announced today that they have extended and expanded their partnership until 2003 Under the terms of the 4-year, $37 million (US$) deal, 1-800-Flowers.com will continue as the exclusive third-party marketer of fresh-cut flowers on AOL and AOL.com. Starting in 2000, the o...

Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) announced today that it has formed a $50 million (US$) joint venture with Singapore's national telecommunications company to develop local portal sites in 10 Asian markets. The move is the latest in an aggressive international expansion plan The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company said that it expects to roll out sites i...

3Com Corp., the second largest maker of computer networking products, has announced that it will spin off its PalmPilot unit Investors in the Santa Clara, California-based company are delighted. They have watched their shares plummet more than 40 percent since December, largely because of a flat market and the falling prices of modems and network c...

Seeing Prodigy Communications Corp. back in the news again brought back fond memories Last week, the White Plains, New York-based online service provider plunked down $100 million (US$) in cash and stock to purchase popular Web-hosting company BizOnThe.Net.

Three Internet veterans with experience at Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer Inc., Pointcast and American Digital Network are hoping to revolutionize personal Internet use with the launch of iDirections.com, a combination of free services, electronic commerce, content and community features Despite claims that iDirections will "change the way people ...

Flooz.com announced Monday that it is the recipient of $16.5 million (US$) in first-round capital financing from a group of well-known Internet venture capital firms. Flooz has been described as the first service to provide online gift-giving currency The New York-based company, which provides coupons for more than 200,000 e-commerce products, said...

OnHealth Network Company (Nasdaq: (ONHN), a Seattle, Washington-based healthcare site, announced Monday that it paid nearly $5 million (US$) in stock to acquire BabyData.com, a site aimed at pregnant couples and those trying to conceive OnHealth said that it issued over 681,000 shares of common stock for BabyData.com. The company's stock price clos...

Trend Micro, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC), a provider of virus protection and security services, has debuted a new online virus scanning service that is intended to enhance Internet Service Provider (ISP) offerings and increase its strength in the antivirus solution market Last week, Taiwan's HiNet ISP was the first to use its Web site to deliver the HouseC...

Gay.com announced today that it has partnered with GAYBC Radio Network to co-develop and distribute both live and on-demand radio programs for its users While specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed, GAYBC's 24-hour / seven-days-a-week schedule of live talk shows, music and hourly news updates will be part of Gay.com's initial radio prog...

Citing the extreme volatility and fast pace of today's stock market, Stocksystem.com, Inc. is now offering online investors a software program that will help them avoid critical mistakes. The program, called the Position Cost Averaging 2000 stock investing system, utilizes built-in mechanisms that prevent users from making unwise or impulsive moves...

Internet service provider EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) has bolstered its new Home Office service by making E-Stamp its online postage supplier. E-Stamp and messaging services from MessageClick are now featured on the EarthLink Personal Start Page Now that their technology has been approved by the U.S. Postal Service, E-Stamp and competitor Stamps.com (...

According to a new study by Mercer Management Consulting, e-tailers will crash and burn this holiday season if they fail to improve their service The survey of 1,019 U.S. Internet users found that e-tailers are having difficulty building a loyal customer base that will continually spend money at their site. Mercer vice president Richard Christner f...

iWeb, a developer of technology that allows Internet service providers to subsidize free Internet access with e-commerce services and advertising, announced Thursday that it has secured a $3 million second round of financing. The round was led by marketing and communications firm Young & Rubicam iWeb's first product, iNotes, uses patent-pending sof...

A couple of weeks ago, online bookseller Fatbrain.com introduced a new model for selling books, magazine articles and other documents that it says will radically change the publishing world Before the announcement, the Palo Alto, California-based Fatbrain.com had focused on selling business and professional books. But with the advent of its new sys...