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Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike The $1.4 billion (US$) food, beverage and retail concessionaire said it has teamed u...

In response to harsh criticism, top online brokers are moving quickly to tone down their ads, according to The Wall Street Journal. Charles Schwab, E*Trade and Datek Online all unveiled plans last week -- which included new television and print ads For several months, Security and Exchange Commissioner Chairman Arthur Levitt has let it be known tha...

Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike The $1.4 billion (US$) food, beverage and retail concessionaire said it has teamed u...

Though its bread and butter is online insurance quotes, Quotesmith.com is hoping stock quotes will help it complete its transition from an information site to an e-commerce site Quotesmith.com filed an initial public offering last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as $80 million (US$) on an unspecified number of...

Virtually no one disputes the fact that the future of e-commerce is dependent on public trust and the perception that sitting down at a computer terminal to buy goods and services is as safe as the checkout line of a superstore in Anywhere, USA That indisputable message is precisely the one that a representative of the industry conveyed to the Hous...

In what's been called by some industry analysts a score for Microsoft's Audio 4.0, Pop-Rap music group The Beastie Boys has announced the availability of the first of three previously unreleased tracks for secure digital download from Launch.Com (Nasdaq: LAUN) A remix of "The Negotiation Limerick File," released in conjunction with Capitol and Gran...

In a move that some industry analysts have called an attempt to play catch-up in the expansive e-commerce game, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) recently announced that it would quintuple the staff of its e-commerce unit, focusing on small to mid-sized companies looking for an online presence Possibly over-shadowed, but by no means eclipsed by recent IBM a...

With online trading becoming more commonplace, investment services companies are looking for new ways to distinguish themselves from the trading crowd. E*Trade Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGRP) moved a step closer Tuesday with an agreement to buy Telebanc Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: TBFC) for a chunk of stock valued at $1.8 billion (US$) The Telebank deal is...

Hoping to Make up for its late entry into the increasingly crowded online trading world, Wall Street stalwart Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) announced today plans to offer an array of new personal financial services on the Internet. Coming next month are a selection of personalized services from Merrill Lynch financial consultants, and later this year the company will add self-directed Web investing...

Newly public online bookseller barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) took a significant step toward taking away market share from industry leader Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) with a new e-commerce deal today Barnesandnoble.com announced a bookselling deal with portal site Snap.com, which is owned by NBC and CNET and should benefit greatly from the newly f...

Going head-to-head with competitors in the bid for dominance of online music distribution, AT&T Corp. has teamed with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., BMG Entertainment and Universal Music to develop technology needed to download, play and store digital music from the Net The new Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) will provide a secure system f...

Promising an instantaneous, electronic alternative to the overnight letter, Hewlett-Packard and United Parcel Service have joined to develop a new service that sends and tracks paper documents over the Net HP and UPS said it will be the first such service enabling users to send, rather than only receive, e-mail versions of transmitted paper documen...

Fidelity Investments announced this week it's offering its customers two-way wireless stock trades via 3Com Corp's new Palm VII handheld organizer The new service is said to include tracking capabilities for Fidelity's most active traders. In addition, the Boston, Massachusetts firm is launching a new Web site and it will also offer voice recogniti...

FOX Entertainment Group (NYSE: FOX) announced Thursday that it has formed a new media company called The Health Network. The new venture is scheduled to launch on cable and the Internet in July The new network is a spin-off of last March's merger of FOX's Fit TV and the American Health Network, the cable and Internet enterprise that has pioneered t...

Amidst a flurry of moves made by IBM to assert its presence in the expanding Linux operating system (OS) market, Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) this week announced several initiatives with, apparently, much the same intention Dell, who had made an equity investment in Linux leader Red Hat Software in April, has established a dedicated section of its ...

Promising an instantaneous, electronic alternative to the overnight letter, Hewlett-Packard and United Parcel Service have joined to develop a new service that sends and tracks paper documents over the Net HP and UPS said it will be the first such service enabling users to send, rather than only receive, e-mail versions of transmitted paper documen...

Going head-to-head with competitors in the bid for dominance of online music distribution, AT&T Corp. has teamed with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., BMG Entertainment and Universal Music to develop technology needed to download, play and store digital music from the Net The new Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) will provide a secure system f...

Auctioning off the top hits to its advertisers is a unique search engine concept that GoTo.com, Inc. hopes will capture the imagination and pockets of Wall Street. The privately held company expects to sell 5 million common shares for $11 to $13 dollars in its initial public offering -- which could happen as early as the first week of June, according to Reuters...

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) this week signaled its increasing focus on the online world by forming a separate business unit for its more than 50 Internet sites Some believe the company may eventually look to the exuberant Internet stock sector to raise funds to expand the unit. Known as the "gray lady" for its long and storied presence in print ...

The U.S. Postal Service recently completed tests of two new services to bring regular mail into the electronic world. The services present new ways for the post office to make money off both printed and electronic mail, though the government is pitching them as equally beneficial to businesses Post Office Online consists of two services -- Mailing ...