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Online phone book GTE SuperPages.com is putting together an online directory of e-commerce sites, aimed at providing shoppers with a single place to find out where on the net their coveted goods reside Web searching "spiders" are using a new classification technology from GTE Labs to put the list together. The database forms the foundation for a ne...

After months of public testing, enterprise reporting, management and analysis firm Web Trends Corporation (Nasdaq: WEBT) unveiled its new portal site for Internet professionals Wednesday The site, which was first announced in April, is called WebTrends Network. It features a variety of products and resources for Internet professionals -- including ...

EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZ) this week announced the availability of its Personal Internet Appliance (PIA), a sub-$200 (US$) Linux-based computer system aimed at the consumer who may not yet be an experienced Internet user The AMD-driven PIA -- featuring a 2.1GB hard drive, 32Mb of RAM, database, spreadsheet and word processing software, a...

In an effort to add yet another reason for online consumers to start their Web surfing at the popular portal, Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) is putting its money behind what it believes is the bank of the future The Internet's fastest growing Web portal announced a deal Thursday with WingspanBank.com, an Internet-only bank that claims to provide faster...

Following on the heels of its push to sell mortgage loans in Japan and the Republic of Korea, online mortgage lender E-Loan, Inc. (Nasdaq: EELN) announced Thursday that it's entering into a joint-venture with an Internet investment fund to provide loans to consumers in the UK, Australia and New Zealand The Dublin, California-based company said it h...

Flush with cash -- lots of cash -- Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET) announced Thursday that it acquired e-commerce payment authorization service, Authorize.Net for $90.5 million (US$) The Seattle, Washington-based network of technology and community-driven Web sites said the deal was a critical component in its development of end-to-end commerce solutio...

Leading e-commerce retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is clearly dominating online bookselling. The competition, however, just got a lot tougher Today, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), which is massively expanding its e-commerce presence, announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Books-A-Million (Nasdaq: BAMM), the third largest book retail chain...

Intel Corp.'s CEO Craig Barrett told reporters in Amsterdam last week that current forecasts projecting the growth of e-commerce were too low Barrett took issue with industry experts' predictions of a trillion dollars in U.S. e-commerce being generated over the next two years, as well as, the forecast of several billion for Western Europe during th...

With a new service from DealTime.com, consumers looking for a good deal on a specific product no longer have to scour the Web themselves -- DealTime.com will do it for them. The Internet search service finds online offers for products based on the customer's preferences for that product, such as manufacturer, price range and other specifications Ho...

U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley recently stated that "if people don't feel safe and secure, they will not use the Internet." A recent Rockbridge Associates report indicated that consumers are indeed reluctant to embrace e-commerce, based in part on mistrust for online transactions. Consequently, online merchants are being forced to recognize that Internet security is becoming an increasingly vital issue...

America Online (NYSE: AOL) is becoming a little more fashionable and a little richer Modacad Inc. (Nasdaq: MODA), which owns the fashion-related e-commerce site styleclick.com announced today that it has signed a two-year marketing agreement with AOL.

At least one company appears to have been listening when Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) laid out a plan last week to force online advertisers to improve their privacy measures The Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE: DIS) Buena Vista Internet Group says it will stop buying ads on Internet sites that do not post their privacy policies. The company's GO Network Web port...

Saying that their aim is to give customers more control over their long-distance, wireless and Internet accounts, AT&T unveiled a new customer service online site Tuesday The site is an obvious response to the tele-communications giant's recognition that its e-commerce potential is expanding as its customers get more and more used to settling accou...

Softbank Corp., Japan's No. 1 software distributor, said last week it will pump $1.6 billion (US$) in three venture capital funds that will only invest in Internet-related startups This comes only two years after Asia's financial crisis brought to a halt the Japanese operations of many U.S. high-tech companies. But today, the same companies are exp...

The General Services Administration has picked a favorite bookseller on the Web. The GSA, which handles major purchases for a variety of federal government agencies, signed a contract with barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) to give its employees access to books through the bookseller's Business Solutions program The five year contract allows federal...

Saying that their aim is to give customers more control over their long-distance, wireless and Internet accounts, AT&T unveiled a new customer service online site Tuesday The site is an obvious response to the tele-communications giant's recognition that its e-commerce potential is expanding as its customers get more and more used to settling accou...

Caldera Systems, Inc. and IBM have announced a joint development, marketing and support agreement to promote the Linux operating system (OS) As disclosed by the terms of the agreement, the two companies will recruit independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators and value-added resellers (VARs) to sell IBM and Caldera OpenLinux solutions....

For about a week, Wall Street had been buzzing about a possible deal between Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) and computer manufacturer Compaq (Nasdaq: CPQ). The companies made it official today CMGI and Compaq announced that CMGI will take an 83 percent stake in Compaq's Altavista search engine and its related properties, which include onlin...

Michael Milken could be proving that the Internet, like the U.S. western frontier of the 1800's, is a place a person with a past can get a fresh start The former junk-bond king who went to prison for breaking security laws has begun a new business life by helping to finance UNext.com. The Internet startup plans to deliver graduate-level courses onl...

Electronic commerce and communications are taking center stage in Washington, DC as the weeklong E-Gov conference and exposition kicks off Running June 28 through July 1, the conference provides the best opportunity for information technology companies to catch the attention of the many government agency decision-makers trying to shift the governme...