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Child's play just got a whole lot more serious on the Net as two more big-name companies intensify their efforts to transform little Web surfers' parents into big online spenders Consolidated Stores Corp. (NYSE: CNS) weighed in with its announcement that its KB Toys division is teaming with BrainPlay.com, Inc. to form a major new e-commerce toy sit...

If there's one thing a sporting goods company doesn't want to do, it's arrive late at the starting gate and watch its opponents sprint to an early lead. The Sport's Authority, Inc. (NYSE: TSA) did get out of the gate later than many of its competitors, but it hopes that an e-commerce agreement announced Wednesday will allow it to catch up.

If recent developments are indicators of the operating system's ability to gain worldwide acceptance, things are looking good for Linux. Caldera Systems, Inc. announced sponsorship and support this week for the Linux Professional Institute's (LPI) exam-based certification program....

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is expanding into the online grocery market with an announcement this week that it has taken a "significant minority interest" in HomeGrocer.com Amazon agreed to pay the grocery delivery service $42.5 million (US$) for a 35 percent stake in the company. Amazon is the Internet's top book, music and video retailer, stocking ...

In a move to expand its position as a provider of e-commerce solutions for small to mid-sized companies, IBM (NYSE: IBM) last week announced a new version of its Net.Commerce for AS/400, helping businesses to quickly gain a secure, efficient online presence Net.Commerce for AS/400 3 will include a Store Creation Wizard with three templates, along w...

One week after NBC merged its Internet properties, Xoom.com and Snap com., into a new company called NBC Internet, it announced Monday that Snap.com has joined forces with Seattle, Washington's RealNetworks, Inc., to form a "multimedia powerhouse." Under the alliance, Snap.com -- the 7th largest Internet portal -- will become the exclusive Intern...

On the heels of Lycos' strong third quarter financial results, which drove its stock up more than $8 to $120 per share (and rising) in less than a day, the online search engine company announced several new deals designed to keep that momentum going Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) said today it will launch a marketing and promotional campaign with West Coast ...

INTERSHOP Communications (Neuer Markt: ISH), a leading provider of online store software, announced on Thursday a new partnership with Compaq Computer Corporation to deliver cross-platform e-commerce solutions for enterprises and Internet service providers. Under this new deal, INTERSHOP will provide e-commerce software running on Windows NT and UNIX for Compaq ProLiant and AlphaServer server platforms...

A few days after Network Associates, Inc. -- the No. 1 maker of antivirus software -- pronounced the Galadriel virus a low risk, a class action suit was filed against the company in the United States District Court of California on behalf of stockholders Those affected by the suit are all stockholders who bought shares in Network Associates during ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM), arguably the king of e-commerce, is best known for its large-scale enterprise e-commerce solutions. However, the company announced on Wednesday, new products and services that enable consumers, entrepreneurs and small businesses to leverage the power of the Internet for e-business. IBM touts these new offerings as being designed for price-conscious buyers that value ease of use...

Looking ahead after the collapse of its merger with USA Networks, Lycos overflowed with optimism, touting record e-commerce deals, promising more big ones soon and celebrating its new position as the #1 Net portal "Business is stronger than ever, and we are poised for tremendous growth," said Bob Davis, Lycos president and CEO. "There is no questio...

In a complementary exchange of announcements aimed at advancing the presence of both companies in the Y2K solutions arena, Microsoft has offered a free 120-day trial of its Systems Management Server (SMS), while Shaman Corp. released information about its Enterprise product's interoperability with SMS Assisting enterprises to achieve Y2K compliance...

Not to be out done by IBM, Hewlett-Packard is promising to storm the e-commerce arena girded with a new Internet software code-named "Fremont" that can be downloaded for free -- the same way the Linux operating system is According to analysts, HP executives have said the new software is written in Java, the language written by Sun Microsystems, to ...

If the speed and ease of shopping online is not enough incentive for some consumers, ebates.com has a better offer: Cash back. The promotional tool made popular by Discover Card is now being implemented online. Ebates.com lures consumers to its site with the promise of up to 25 percent cash back on their online purchases....

When you're cool, clever and intelligent, things just seem to fall into place so much easier. That's probably how Akamai Technologies employees felt Friday, as round after round of good news rolled through the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters -- like a Waikiki wave....

Hoping to tap into the vast market for online travel booking, Yahoo! and SkyMall announced Friday separate competing sites designed to offer one-stop access to a variety of established Web travel sources. The Yahoo! Travel Specials Center targets travelers seeking last-minute bargains through huge listings of deals on airfare, hotels, cruises and rental cars...

Microsoft co-founder and eclectic investor Paul Allen has put his money behind another venture purporting to have the key to a computing revolution. Backed by funds from Allen's Vulcan Ventures Inc., a new Bellevue, Washington company called Mercata, Inc. says its new site is not just another online shopping mall....

Microsoft's telecom spending spree struck gold last week. Not from the $5 billion (US$) it invested in AT&T -- but from the $600 million it pumped into Nextel Communications Just when everybody thought the Reston, Virginia-based wireless phone company was about to merge with MCI WorldCom, Nextel broke off talks and instead allowed Microsoft to buy ...

The Internet continued its rapid infiltration of academia this week, with an announcement from the highly regarded Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley that it is adding four new e-commerce classes to its curriculum Meanwhile on the opposite coast, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Business hono...

They were aiming for $46 million (US$) and they obtained $41 million after expenses, which makes Intelligent Life's IPO Thursday less than remarkable, but surely a success of some kind for the North Palm Beach, Florida-based publisher of Web personal finance sites The owners of Bankrate.com, theWhiz.com and other personal finance Web sites, Intelli...