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A recently acquired subsidiary of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Great Plains Business Solutions, announced Tuesday that it is partnering with business-to-business (B2B) software provider Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq: CLRS) to offer B2B e-procurement software ...

Comergent Technologies, a provider of sell-side business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce software, announced a deal with Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) on Monday in which suppliers and their channel partners will have the opportunity to use Comergent's distributed e-commerce system to connect with buyers via Commerce One's MarketSite ...

Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) announced Monday that it has acquired WhereTo, an Australian provider of online travel systems. Travelocity plans to integrate WhereTo's technology, which includes engines that facilitate the booking of fares, into its own site. ...

Online brokerage E*Trade(NYSE: ET) announced Thursday that its board of directors has approved a plan, known in Wall Street parlance as a poison pill, aimed at thwarting a hostile takeover attempt ...

More than 20 million Europeans visited business and finance sites from their homes in May, according to research released Wednesday by Jupiter MMXI. ...

Music downloading from Napster has been suspended, at least temporarily, while the file-swapping site installs filters in order to comply with a court order prohibiting the unauthorized exchange of copyrighted music ...

Mirroring a move made by Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) two weeks ago, Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced Monday that it will offer free shipping for consumers purchasing two or more items ...

Any continued weakness in the European economy could have a major impact on the demand for information technology (IT) products and services over the next three years, according to a report released Monday by IDC ...

Despite the recent decline in venture capital funding for Internet companies, North American e-tail sales will exceed US$29.3 billion in 2000, according to new research from Gartner Group ...

Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) and former online postage provider E-Stamp (Nasdaq: ESTM) announced Thursday that they have settled all pending litigation between the two companies ...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) inked a deal with Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) on Wednesday that will allow the Internet portal to deliver geographically targeted, local advertising to Web surfers ...

Established professional Internet services companies have the best opportunity to gain market share in a shifting environment -- despite the flexibility and creativity of their emerging and mid-level competitors -- according to research released Wednesday by IDC ...

The "Global New E-Economy Index," a cyber atlas that maps the technological vitality of 47 nations based on five digital economy factors, was published Tuesday by IT research firm Meta Group. ...

European Web shoppers will spend more money online for groceries than their American counterparts by 2003, according to a study released Monday by Forrester Research. ...

Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) announced a major restructuring Wednesday ...

The number of dot-com job cuts fell for the second month in a row and reached the lowest point since November, according to a report released Tuesday by Chicago, Illinois-based executive search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). ...

Controversial song-swapping site Napster announced Tuesday that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM) and the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA). ...

Worldwide spending on Internet services reached almost US$22 billion in 2000, according to a report released Monday by IDC ...

In Part 1 of a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times began to dispel the seven deadly myths of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. ...

Several companies that used bogus "rebate" checks to con consumers into signing up for Internet yellow page listings agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that their operations were deceptive and violated federal law, the FTC said Friday ...