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Giant online auctioneer eBay, Inc. announced Friday that all items related to hate groups such as the Nazi Party or the Ku Klux Klan will have to meet specific criteria before qualifying for auction on its site.

Apparel giant Polo Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) announced an agreement today with NBC affiliates ValueVision (Nasdaq: VVTV) and NBCi (Nasdaq: NBCI) to create a multimedia initiative that will center on its Polo.com Internet retailing site.

A trio of firms today rolled out a product they say will allow would-be e-businesses to quickly establish seamless retail Internet sites.

IBM seized the spotlight at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City last week by issuing a spate of announcements that could significantly affect e-commerce professionals and the open-source community.

A recent poll of leading chief information officers (CIOs) at U.S.-based businesses shows that 65 percent consider e-commerce to have supplanted Y2K as their leading technology issue.

The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating online auctioneer eBay, Inc. to determine whether its efforts to block price comparison search software from probing its Web site are anti-competitive.

In a keynote address Thursday to the Variety Interactive Summit in San Diego, California, Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) president and CEO Strauss Zelnick left no doubt that the Internet has become an unstoppable force in the music industry by labeling distribution via digital downloads as "the holy ...

Earlier this week, America Online became the latest e-commerce giant to be slapped with a class action lawsuit.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is ready to let the public help shape its policy on electronic commerce, but more than a dozen members of Congress have decided that they already know what the public wants.

In July of 1998, after spearheading the effort to transform MSNBC into a leading online news service, Peter Neupert traded his executive office at Microsoft for a new challenge as President and CEO of Drugstore.com.

In a deal valued at over $800 million (US$) in cash and stock, open-source solutions provider VA Linux Systems announced the acquisition Thursday of Andover.Net, a company that owns several Linux and open-source related information sites.

A UK information technology (IT) management consultancy says that companies should not waste the information benefits of their Y2K experiences, since the lessons learned from preparing for the December 31, 1999 date change can easily be applied to the world of e-commerce.

Financial software giant Intuit, Inc. and TransPoint, a joint venture between Microsoft and First Data Corp., are teaming together to tackle one of the last bastions of paper-based commerce -- the sending of 63 billion bills yearly to small businesses and consumers.

As the LinuxWorld Expo came to a close in New York City this week, computer book and operating system publisher Macmillan USA, Inc. announced that it has released the latest version of its distribution of the Linux open-source operating system.

Despite reporting a net loss of $323 million (US$) or 96 cents a share for the quarter ended December 31, 1999, e-tail giant Amazon.com has seen its stock shoot up $9-3/16 in mid-day trading Thursday to a price of $78-5/8.