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Standard & Poors -- a name long known in the lexicon of the financial world as the root of the S&P 500 -- announced Monday the formation of a new Internet custom solutions service for financial retailers The company said the new launch would include personal investing services, news, charting, stock and mutual fund profiles, screening tools, market...

Standard & Poors -- a name long known in the lexicon of the financial world as the root of the S&P 500 -- announced Monday the formation of a new Internet custom solutions service for financial retailers The company said the new launch would include personal investing services, news, charting, stock and mutual fund profiles, screening tools, market...

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) announced Monday a plan to merge its Buena Vista Internet Group with GO.com partner Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq: SEEK) and take GO.com public. If approved by Infoseek and Disney stockholders, the agreement will yield Infoseek holders 1.15 shares of GO.com for each of their Infoseek shares. Disney hopes the new stock will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GO...

Privately held online grocer Webvan Group is looking to go national in a major way. On Friday, Webvan announced a deal with construction firm Bechtel that greatly ups the ante for online sales of groceries. The deal, which is expected to exceed $1 billion (US$), will result in Webvan distribution centers being built by Bechtel in 26 new markets over the next 24 months...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and San Jose, California-based Secure Computing (Nasdaq: SCUR) co-sponsored the Black Hat Briefings '99 security conference in Las Vegas last week, focusing on computer-related security issues The intention behind the now annual, two-day conference is to bring corporate and government engineers and software programmers face...

With the rise of a new way to capture consumer eyeballs on the Internet, by paying them to surf the Web, one entrepreneur has found a new way to put the surfing programs to work for him Get Paid to Be Online is a new site that provides basic descriptions of a variety of money making surf programs, including "pay by the hour" services, "pay by the e...

Last week, Yahoo!, Inc. may have shown its critics that the company is not only capable of turning a profit, but also able to quell a customer revolt swiftly -- before it got out of hand Yahoo! said profits before charges for the second quarter ended June 30th rose to $28.3 million (US$), or 11 cents per share, from a year ago's profit before charg...

The major record labels have already vowed to fight back against MP3 digital music compression. So, Friday's announcement that leading online music retailer, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW), and major record label, Atlantic Records, have paired up with Microsoft to offer secure promotional downloads comes as no surprise CDNow said it was introducing a "ground...

Toys "R" Us rocked the e-commerce world earlier this week when it announced that the hand-picked chief executive officer it had chosen to run its online operations wouldn't be coming on board after all In a news release the Paramus, New Jersey big-box retailer said that Bob Moog, "has been unable to extricate himself from his responsibilities as fo...

Can mainframes really make a comeback? The current browser/server model being touted as a "new" solution looks exactly like the mainframes of the 70s Merchants update their sites and prices -- and process orders -- using fixed forms. In contrast, nearly every other area of computing has settled on the desktop, which doesn't require a continuous con...

Where will the online shoppers be in the next several years? Three separate Internet studies this week offer a glimpse Overall findings suggest buyers in the United States are, and will continue to be, predominantly white middle-class consumers. College campuses, many of which are melting pots of people from varied backgrounds, may provide a lucrat...

When there's been millions upon millions of words written about you, it's probably only fair that you be allowed to put in your two cents worth That might be what the popular auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is thinking Friday, as it announced the anticipated late summer launch of eBay Magazine.

Predictions for the growth of electronic commerce throughout the world vary, but almost all are extremely bullish, as more and more consumers gain access to computers and the Internet Nonetheless, the last leg of completing an online sale -- getting the product to the buyer -- remains a logistical hurdle for many companies selling to international ...

Telecommunications heavyweight Bell Atlantic has 43 million telephone access lines and nine million wireless customers worldwide. The company is now looking beyond telephone customers, however, and focusing on e-commerce On Thursday, leading search engine Infoseek (Nasdaq: SEEK), which is an anchor site for the GO Network, announced a three-year de...

The major record labels have already vowed to fight back against MP3 digital music compression. So, Friday's announcement that leading online music retailer, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW), and major record label, Atlantic Records, have paired up with Microsoft to offer secure promotional downloads comes as no surprise CDNow said it was introducing a "ground...

Last week, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that it's preparing to ramp up its Internet efforts by cutting a deal with Books-A-Million Inc. to supply and deliver books for its online store. This action has resurrected the legion of analysts, who have been howling in unison for months, predicting that the giant retailer will soon pulverize Amazon.com into oblivion. But, I for one, don't think they're right -- even though I'm in the minority...

College, private high school and distance learning students may soon find some relief from the textbook price gouge they endure each semester if a new program from VarsityBooks.com takes off. The online textbook seller has launched a new partnership program, aimed at fulfilling book sales for schools across the country For participating schools, th...

After a string of months highlighted with huge capital investments, and a number of acquisitions, Go2Net, Inc. is putting the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together for all to see The network of branded technology and community-driven sites announced Thursday that it signed a licensing agreement with e-commerce hosting solutions provider Intershop. T...

While it might lag behind in the Nielsen ratings, television network CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is definitely out in front of the pack when it comes to building an Internet presence. The company added to its online portfolio Thursday, with the announcement that it acquired a 35 percent stake in Medscape, a popular health and medical information site for the medical community...

Leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) continued its run of exceeding Wall Street's expectations when it announced its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the U.S. stock markets closed Yahoo! reported net revenues of more than $115 million (US$), a 156 percent increase over the same period last year. The company's net second-quarter loss,...