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For e-commerce companies, raising brand awareness through offline promotion can be an extremely costly yet crucial part of their marketing strategy. On Friday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that it had scored a significant coup in that regard Microsoft will launch Expedia Radio, a one-hour, syndicated weekly radio program that is designed as a...

CyberCash, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYCH) and NetGravity, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETG) have created a new online advertising process that aims to enable online sales to be completed within an ad banner, eliminating the need for the Web surfer to connect to the advertiser's Web site to close a deal NetGravity has adapted its AdServer online interactive advertising serv...

BuyItNow.com's command was apparently Snap.com and XOOM.com's wish, as the two popular Web sites announced Monday that they have entered into partnership agreements with the e-commerce retail site Snap.com, the Internet portal company from NBC television and CNET, will take a 3.6 percent stake in the company, in exchange for providing BuyItNow.com ...

As the epic antitrust trial drew to a close, Microsoft was taking care of other business as usual, which included announcing a series of steps aimed to strengthen security for e-commerce and other online activities Speaking at PC Expo in New York, Microsoft Executive Vice President and CEO Bob Herbold discussed initiatives to assist both his compan...

Perhaps responding to plans by two other major drugstore chains to expand their Internet presences, Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) announced Monday it will launch an online pharmacy in September Walgreens will challenge CVS, Rite Aid and vitamin store General Nutrition Company for online prescription sales. CVS recently bought online drugstore Soma.com f...

Moving to strengthen its presence in the Asian market, America Online announced Friday that it has acquired a 10 percent stake in Internet company China.com The agreement also gives AOL the right to exercise an option to acquire an additional 15 percent stake in the company in the future. China.com has filed a registration statement with the SEC to...

The House and Senate Commerce Committees moved in perfect harmony this week, passing companion bills to allow digitally encrypted information to be exported. If they become law, the measures would open America's doors to increased electronic commerce in world markets Both bills would allow the Secretary of Commerce to deny the export of encryption ...

For first-time automobile buyers, one of the few things as frustrating as visiting a car dealership is figuring out which insurance company to use. On Thursday, online auto retailer Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) announced a partnership that could help customers avoid that hassle Autobytel.com has teamed up with InsurQuote -- a technology provider fo...

With online commerce now a hit for nearly every conceivable product category, from baseballs to diamonds, health insurance to Hot Wheels cars, Adshop Online is taking the next step: selling an entire Web site via the Internet Adshop, a New York Internet advertising agency, plans to sell its Econotrade brokerage Web site in a private e-mail auction ...

North Carolina-based Red Hat, Inc. this week announced that they are making on-site professional services available for Corporate users of the Linux operating system (OS) Aside from the issue of software development, support is a significant factor that many industry analysts feel will help Linux to become a much more widely adopted operating syste...

A panel of top high-tech executives met this week in London at the Wall Street Journal Europe's CEO Summit and critiqued some e-commerce powerhouses Amazon.com came under fire as Raymond Lane, president and chief operating officer of Oracle, took the time to criticize and give some advise to the online marketer.

E*Offering, the online investment bank partially owned by E*Trade, is reporting that its public offering as a lead underwriter raised $73 million (US$) for e-commerce technology and service provider, First Sierra Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq:BTOB) In a secondary offering last week, E*Trade's asterisk twin sold 4 million shares of First Sierra Financial ...

Among the flurry of votes Wednesday by the Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Spencer Abraham's (R-Michigan) S.761 Millennium Digital Commerce Act won approval with minimal tinkering by committee members. As previously reported, the bill would make little substantive change in U.S. policy but would officially endorse the use of digital signatures in electronic transactions...

Music and entertainment retailer Musicland (NYSE: MLG) is hoping that e-commerce will turn its fortunes around. Musicland, which operates more than 1,300 brick-and-mortar stores including Sam Goody, Suncoast, MediaPlay and OnCue, announced Wednesday that it has launched e-commerce stores for all of its brick-and-mortar brands The move comes as Musi...

The United States Senate is taking relatively fast steps to curtail gambling on the Internet, but its counterparts on the other side of the Capitol have yet to pay attention to the issue The Senate Judiciary Committee passed S.692, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 1999 last week just 11 weeks after the measure was introduced by Sen. Jon Kyl...

At an International Data Corp. (IDC) conference held in Prague this week, experts predicted steady growth in the field of e-commerce for Eastern Europe, driven largely by regional IT market growth The Eastern European IT Forum 1999 - Strategy and Vision: The Challenge of Managing Growth in Transition, featured talks by regional industry executives,...

Even as Microsoft fights for its corporate life at its federal antitrust trial, some say it's switching into hyper-drive in a plan to combat the threat of the Linux operating system Linus Torvalds, a Finnish graduate student, who based the operating system on the Unix operating system developed Linux in 1991 -- making it available for free via the ...

The U.S. Commerce Department is looking at electronic commerce to provide the primary economic growth for the United States over the next 100 years, but at the same time, the agency has not yet figured out how big an impact Internet business has had on the country to date Commerce's Office of Electronic Commerce released its second annual report, "...

Banks like electronic billing because it is cost-efficient and can be faster than traditional forms of securing payment Now, three major banks are teaming up to streamline the process. Today, U.S. banking giants Chase Manhattan (NYSE: CMB), First Union (NYSE: FTU) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) announced that they are forming a new company that will a...

While the issue of potential e-commerce taxes loomed over the first session of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, the commission grappled with political issues after its chairman recommended that it hire a woman with potential conflicts to be its executive director Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, chairman of the 19-member commission, pu...