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IBM this week announced a strategic alliance with LaSer, the services and technology division of French retail firm Groupe Galeries Lafayette, a move that some industry analysts feel will serve to advance e-commerce in Europe Under terms of the 15-year agreement, the two companies will develop and offer IT solutions for European retailers, and work...

While Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is being pushed to the limit by the U.S. Justice Department in its ongoing epic lawsuit, life goes on, "business as usual" for the Redmond, Washington-based software giant For example, the company announced Wednesday that its MSN MoneyCentral, a personal finance Web site, signed agreements with American Express, Charl...

Not content with being just an online broker, E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced today that it is expanding its e-commerce arsenal by branching out into real estate. E*Trade and online real estate marketplace Owners.com have launched a co-branded real estate service that can be accessed on E*Trade's mortgage center The new service will allow E*Trade'...

Barnes & Noble's Web arm -- barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) -- Wednesday became the latest online bookstore to add downloadable audio to its offerings The barnesandnoble.com Music Store is hoping to cast the widest net of all the online audio services, emphasizing its sizable classical music collection and variety of different jazz styles.

When Go2Net, Inc. announced last month that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his venture capital firm, Vulcan Ventures, had purchased an aggregate $426 million (US$) of Go2Net stock since last March, it didn't take a genius to figure out that the company would go on a shop 'til you drop excursion Still shopping and obviously not dropping, Go2Net...

Network Solutions, Inc., aka NSI (Nasdaq: NSOL), moved into the holiday weekend with something of a bang last Friday -- albeit a bang without a celebratory tone to it. Hackers hit the IP address allocation company's Web site, rerouting traffic and fueling an existent controversy Surfers visiting various sites maintained by the company -- including ...

Advertisers and investors should be tuning into Internet audio if they want to get in on the next big online boom, a new study out this month says. According to market research firm Frost & Sullivan, the Internet audio market will grow to more than $100 million (US$) in revenues this year Frost & Sullivan's World Internet Audio Market study, releas...

A Boston start-up called Verbind Inc. has developed one of the many new software products to help e-commerce sites predict their customers' actions By shadowing a site visitor's every move, then crunching the results, Verbind's LifeTime software program is supposed to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff -- or the buyer from the browser.

Online health network drkoop.com (Nasdaq: KOOP) raised more than $84 million (US$) in an initial public offering on June 8th. That might seem like a lot of money, but drkoop.com is now spending all of that money -- and then some -- on one single deal Drkoop.com announced today that it has signed a strategic marketing alliance with America Online (N...

TurboLinux announced the release of its Workstation 3.6 product last week, commencing its official debut in the United States. The product is currently available at the company's information and e-commerce Web site, and soon through retail outlets and resellers Lonn Johnston, Vice President of North American Operations for TurboLinux told E-Commerc...

One of the world's top newswire services is exploring the Internet's potential for increasing its reach -- and revenues. Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY), the London-based television and print news agency, assigned Executive Director David Ure to help the company's Trading Systems Division exploit the Internet's potential. Ure gets a seat on the company's board of directors in exchange for his new focus on tapping electronic commerce to generate new business for Reuters...

Last week, America Online Inc. took minority stake in low-priced personal-computer maker eMachines Inc. By doing so, the No. 1 online service may have just proved that Microsoft wasn't being disingenuous when it testified in court recently that it feared AOL would try to make Windows obsolete EMachines is a joint venture of South Korea's Trigem Com...

In a move that surely gained favor with Microsoft and drew disdain from Linux lovers, Intel Chief Executive Crag Barrett made a joint speech with Bill Gates at a Burlington, California meeting this week -- showcasing companies that are switching from Unix systems to Windows NT. The companies included Ford Motor Co., Enron Corp. and Sony Corp But so...

Silicon Valley-based Mindcraft, an independent testing organization, released results from a series of performance tests they ran pitting the underdog Linux operating system (OS) against its arch-rival and nemesis, Windows NT. On the surface, the winner would appear to be NT Mindcraft was subject to a barrage of criticism from the Linux community r...

If U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley's new Internet campaign goes as planned, trees across America will be rejoicing in three years At this week's E-Gov '99 Internet Conference, Daley pledged to make the Department of Commerce paper-free by 2002.

Online shopping is supposed to be empowering, but surfing through all the various retailers to make a purchase can often be exhausting and frustrating. That's why online shopping guides like BizRate.com, which are designed to help customers comparison shop and make informed purchases, are in favor Today, BizRate announced that it has secured $20 mi...

In name choice alone, a newly-formed coalition of civic organizations, high-tech associations and a sprinkling of private companies send an emphatic message to elected officials about their view of government intervention in the Internet Washington, D.C.-based "Hands off the Internet" announced their formation Friday. It's clear from their name and...

A greater than expected number of small and local businesses have turned to the Internet to sell their products and services -- causing some members of the traditional media to fear for the worst According to a study of fourteen major markets conducted by the Princeton, New Jersey-based Kelsey Group and San Francisco-based ConStat, seventeen percen...

Hailed by capitalists as one of the few federal government agencies that operates like a private sector company, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is taking steps to keep up that image via the Internet The PTO recently deployed a new system to accept online orders for reference information on its Web site, using an order entry management s...

Like movie stars and Hollywood titans, Wall Street mavericks and Fleet Street publishers, online commerce companies are catching on to the "official book" craze In addition to providing a fine way for entities to write their own histories before someone else does, these "official books" also carry the imprint of respectability.