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As popular as the game of golf has become in the United States, it's even more so in Japan. Club membership prices can soar into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and a wide back swing is guaranteed to clip a fellow golfer in a nation with too many golfers and not enough land One company banking on the game's popularity is chipshot.com, a Sunnyv...

As we inch toward mid-1999, more and more companies are entering a market created to curtail projections for a Y2K computer bug that range from foreseeing a minor glitch to heralding worldwide chaos According to an International Data Corp. (IDC) report released this week -- Small Business to Y2K: "What Me Worry?" -- although total small business sp...

With less than 2 percent of the 7 million small companies in the United States doing business online, Rep. Jim Talent (R-Missouri) is looking for ways to increase those ranks. Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, Talent pledged at an e-commerce hearing yesterday to take a closer look at specific barriers to increasing Internet competition for small businesses...

Amazon.com, Inc. chief executive officer Jeffrey P. Bezos told Business Week in its latest edition that there's plenty of room for both his company and eBay, in the online auction arena "I think that's one of the most misunderstood things about e-commerce," Bezos said. There aren't going to be a few winners. There are going to be tens of thousands ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) this week disclosed, in a barrage of announcements, collaboration with several key players in the increasingly popular Linux market, taking the open-source operating system (OS) another step towards broader acceptance DB2 for instance, IBM's database software, will be distributed on the Pacific HiTech, Inc. version of Linux. In a mo...

Bypassing Wall Street, Datek Online Holdings Corp., the nation's fourth-largest Internet brokerage, has raised $300 million (US$) through private investments from investors including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault Privately held Datek, based in Iselin, New Jersey, said proceeds would go toward hiring...

Barnesandnoble.com stock gains fell well short of other recent Internet issues after the online bookseller's initial public offering, providing yet more evidence that Wall Street's infatuation with Net-related stocks may be cooling In the first day of trading Tuesday, shares of barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) climbed 27 percent to close at $22.94...

This week 3Com Corp. -- the No. 2 maker of networking products -- shipped its new, Internet-connected handheld PalmPilot ahead of schedule This comes only a few weeks after Microsoft pumped $600 million into the publicly held Nextel, a digital phone company that has carved out a 3-million-strong niche in the business market. Its phones already offe...

Billed as the one of the Internet's first e-commerce portals, BUY.COM has said it keeps its customers' wallets first and foremost in mind when it posts products in its virtual storefronts. The company backed up its claim Tuesday when it announced the opening of an electronic goods surplus store The Aliso Viejo, California-based company said BUYSURP...

Fresh off a deal with eBay last month that calls for its being the auction site's leading shipper, Mail Boxes Etc. announced Tuesday that it will invest significantly in the e-commerce shipping business and the technology required to wire a network for its 3,000 domestic franchises A subsidiary of U.S. Office Products (Nasdaq: OFIS), the franchiser...

Some of the biggest names in shopping, including New York City flagships Bloomingdale's and Macy's, are putting their names behind WeddingChannel.com's new online/offline bridal registry service. The site will combine WeddingChannel.com's own online registry with two online registries and a half dozen in-store registries Federated Department Stores, Inc. operates...

Investment house Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Monday became the first business to merge an online trading service with an Internet portal and search engine, joining with Excite, Inc. to launch MySchwab The move is designed to differentiate Schwab's investing site from the dozens of others trying to lure online traders.

In the span of a week, the company formerly known as MiningCo.com has changed its name and signed an agreement with Borders.com (NYSE: BGP) that calls for the co-branding of individual bookstores across its entire netwok of 650 topic-specific sites Now known as About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT), the popular Web community site, said Friday that the agreement...

Growing credit card fraud over the Internet will affect the future of e-commerce to the extent that some analysts say if it's not kept in check -- people will simply stop making purchases online Some Web merchants already say that more than half of the sales they make on software and digital music downloads are fraudulent -- especially in a world w...

OneChannel.net announced Friday that Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS), the well-known online reseller of computer hardware and software, has signed on as a charter subscriber to its service Egghead joins a list of two dozen other charter subscribers for the May 24th launch of its site, OneChannel.net said. The company did not specify who the other charte...

In the span of a week, the company formerly known as MiningCo.com has changed its name and signed an agreement with Borders.com (NYSE: BGP) that calls for the co-branding of individual bookstores across its entire netwok of 650 topic-specific sites Now known as About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT), the popular Web community site, said Friday that the agreement...

1-800-FLOWERS took its online flower shop public Friday, filing an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $150 million (US$) The money would augment a private placement offering of preferred stock that closed this month, netting the company $102.6 million. Investors in that stock include Internet-focused i...

May the force -- and the hype -- be with you. Pop culture has been jammed with marketing and movie mania as Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace -- a film that has been called the most anticipated in history-- opened in theatres this week. But, if you're looking for an escape, don't go online The Internet has been a central front in promoting...

Lycos, Inc. announced a two-for-one split of its stock this week just as the price of its shares skyrocketed on news of an unusually strong third quarter Driven by news that the company has overtaken Yahoo! as the most visited search engine on the Internet, Lycos (NASDAQ: LCOS) stock soared Tuesday and Wednesday to an 8 percent gain.

With nearly 2 million online shoppers visiting America Online (NYSE: AOL) for the first time in the second quarter, the Internet portal and online service company has decided it is time to remodel its stores. The company announced yesterday it will launch a new shopping service this summer called Shop@AOL Leading the effort is Patrick Gates, who jo...