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The European Union (EU) assembly last week endorsed a proposal drafted by its civil service and executive branch, the European Commission, to regulate and promote e-commerce, including components addressing a range of issues: from cross-border transactions to spam The moves come on the heels of a Forrester Amsterdam Research report, released in lat...

Sporting goods company Global Sports, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSPT) said Monday it has formed Global Sports Interactive, a new unit that will operate e-commerce business for retailers with combined annual sales of $1.6 billion (US$) Global Sports said it won exclusive agreements to run e-commerce for The Athlete's Foot, Sports Chalet, MC Sports, Sports & Rec...

Deja News has dropped "news" from its name and overhauled its site in an ambitious attempt to convert newsgroup chatters to product reviewers -- and buyers At the heart of the new deja.com is the Deja Ratings section, offering detailed reviews of more than 7,200 items in 400 categories, based on surveys by the site's users.

Online shopping center skymall.com has lined up a powerful friend to help drive sales in the fourth quarter holiday shopping season, announcing an alliance today with worldwide credit card company Visa, Inc The skymall.com site is a division of in-flight shopping catalog company SkyMall Inc., which reaches more than 410 million travelers per year b...

Mass mailings, the bane of small and mid-sized businesses lacking the means to outsource, just got a whole lot simpler -- and cheaper, says an Internet start-up seeking to tap into the multi-billion-dollar annual market San Francisco, California-based Eletter, Inc. ELetter says its new online service will allow businesses to quickly and easily outs...

Since it first hit the online street back in 1996, TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM) has been a media favorite in offering financial news with attitude. Unlike many of its bottom line, straight-faced competitors, TheStreet.com seems to revel in lacing its comprehensive financial news with witty commentary, bombast and bluster and occasional irreverence ...

In a major move to combine content, community and e-commerce, NBC announced Monday that it is partnering with leading e-commerce direct marketing company Xoom.com (Nasdaq: XMCM) and online technology network CNET (Nasdaq: CNET) to create a publicly traded Internet company known as NBC Internet Bob Wright, president and CEO of NBC will become the ch...

Intel Corp. plans to talk its way into the booming e-commerce business -- but it's finding others have the same idea. On May 6, the giant Santa Clara, California-based computer-chip maker pumped a cool $30 million (US$) into a joint venture with Lemout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, Europe's largest speech-recognition software maker. The partnershi...

After stumbling over a copyright challenge to the name of its "moviebuff.com" online video and DVD site, West Coast Entertainment Corp. ( OTC BB:WCEC) launched a newly named e-commerce site that will combine a vast selection of films with Hollywood news and views The site, westcoastvideo.com, offers selections from West Coast Video's retail stores ...

A bill introduced late last week in the U.S. House of Representatives by Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Virginia.) could give the use of electronic signatures in e-commerce Congressional backing. The Electronic Signatures in the Global and National Commerce Act, or E-SIGN, would make very little substantive change in the way electronic commerce is currently conducted but would put into official language the U.S. government's support for promoting secure transactions over the Internet...

In a move destined to make direct e-mail pitches a whole lot more like TV commercials, RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) is teaming with two other companies to provide streaming audio and video content in e-mails that will enable a customer to make a purchase without clicking to a Web site RealNetworks joined with @Once, a San Francisco, California...

A San Mateo, California, Web site analysis company is putting five large e-commerce sites under the microscope this month to promote its quality of service measurement programs. Among others, Keynote Systems, Inc. plans to analyze fast-growing AutoWeb.com and 1-800-Flowers In addition, the company announced a new quality of service measurement prog...

While some analysts remain concerned that name-your-price online retailer Priceline.com's (Nasdaq: PCLN) business model could be easily replicated, the company is busy patenting its methods Priceline.com, which has seen its stock price rocket since its recent initial public offering partially because investors are intrigued by the company's unique ...

Drugstore.com may be the biggest player in online sales of health products, but leading health information site HealthCentral.com has decided to partner with two of Drugstore.com's competitors. Today, HealthCentral.com introduced its new e-commerce initiative by signing deals with online pharmacy PlanetRx and health and wellness superstore SelfCare...

While its potential merger with USA Networks (Nasdaq: USAI) now seems somewhat unlikely, Web portal Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) is continuing to add e-commerce partners. On Monday, The Sportsman's Guide (Nasdaq: SGDE), which sells outdoor clothing and equipment via catalog and its online store, announced a marketing agreement with Lycos The Sportsman's Gu...

Do online shoppers browse the Internet by product category or by the product's place of origin? Another new company planning to establish a handful of online shopping sites is betting a significant number want goods and services from specific online "communities." Planet411.com plans to launch three online communities this summer based on Canada's ...

Cementing an existing deal that has helped lead to one of the Internet's most heavily-visited sites, America Online (NYSE: AOL) and five leading U.S. banks announced multi-year marketing agreements Monday The agreements make Bank of America, Bank One, Union Bank of California, Citibank and Wells Fargo key components in AOL's Banking Center, itself ...

While Microsoft Corp. continues to be preoccupied with its government antitrust battle, some say the Linux operating system is gaining the same momentum against the software titan that fictitious Rocky Balboa gained in his heavy weight bout against Apollo Creed Dell Computer Corp. announced April 26 that it plans to factory-install the new Red Hat ...

The e-commerce world is buzzing this week with the tremendous opportunity Mother's Day brings for retailers to make an extra online buck. But while many online sellers are adding incentives for buyers to visit their sites first, iGive.com offers a more benevolent approach -- get a gift for mom and support charitable organizations in one click of the mouse...

In a move that could raise the awareness of eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) among college students, the online auction house and Kinko's, a leading provider of document-copying services, announced a joint marketing deal on Wednesday "We share similar operating philosophies of around-the-clock personalized customer service and innovation in meeting customer nee...