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TurboLinux has entered into a partnership with Akopia, a provider of online business solutions, to bundle its latest server software package with an e-commerce suite.

SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC), the largest local telephone company in the United States, announced today that it will pay $3.9 billion (US$) in cash for Sterling Commerce (NYSE: SE).

Online computer giant Dell Computer Corp. announced today that it is expanding its e-commerce offerings by launching a Web site hosting service for small to medium-sized businesses.

With no predictable resolution in sight, the Microsoft antitrust trial is scheduled to hear closing arguments in Washington, D.C. today.

Internet grocer HomeGrocer.com announced today that it will pay $60 million (US$) over five years to America Online (NYSE: AOL) for positioning across the online giant's vast network.

German software giant SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has teamed with Deutsche Bank AG to offer financial and technical services to firms that are engaged in online trading on SAP's new business-to-business (B2B) network.

Linux vendor Stormix Technologies, Inc. has announced that it will stage the European debut of its Debian-based Storm Linux 2000 OS package at the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany today.

Just days after becoming the subject of investigations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York State Attorney General's office, controversial Internet advertising agency DoubleClick, Inc. has been threatened with legal action by the state of Michigan's Attorney General's office.

Travel trade association The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) has formally requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) block the sale of airline tickets by 27 U.S. and foreign carriers on an industry-wide Web site.

Despite claims of readiness for the Valentine's Day shopping rush by many leading e-tailers, Internet performance monitoring firm Keynote, Inc. has found that many of those sites failed to live up to expectations.

Despite a well-publicized tripling of e-commerce spending last year, many e-tailers found themselves falling far short of the shopping season revenues needed to keep their virtual storefronts open.

The United States has unveiled a pact with Argentina to help bring the South American country's e-commerce capability up to speed with Asian and European competitors.

E-commerce security solutions provider Rainbow Technologies, Inc. announced at the formal launch of Microsoft Windows 2000 in San Francisco, California that key components of its product line will support both the new Windows 2000 platform and the Windows 2000 Smart Card architecture.

DuPont Corp. (NYSE: DD), the 198 year-old science-based solutions company, announced Friday that it will work with Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE) to create an online business-to-business (B2B) market for industrial goods and services.

Kevin J. O'Connor, the 38 year-old Chairman and CEO of controversial Internet advertising company DoubleClick, Inc., must feel like Sherman McCoy, the fictional star of Tom Wolfe's famous novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.