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Kmart, the second-largest discount retail operation in the U.S., has announced that it will offer shares of its common stock directly to its 180 million shoppers on its recently-launched BlueLight.com Web site. Most stocks normally must be purchased from brokerages.

Editor's Note: This expanded coverage is brought to you as a follow-up to our story, Dot-Coms Betting Big Bucks on Super Bowl Sunday, which ran on January 28th, 2000.

Business-to-business (B2B) online trading community operator VerticalNet, Inc. has formed a joint European venture with global communications company British Telecommunications (BT) and venture capital fund Internet Capital Group (ICG).

At the opening of the LinuxWorld Conference in New York City this week, database titan Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) expanded its investment in Linux by announcing that its e-commerce enabling dot-com Suite is now available for the open-source operating system.

Online business security applications provider Diversinet Corp. (Nasdaq: DVNT) announced Tuesday that it has joined The Radicchio Initiative, an industry coalition that has been established to push public key infrastructure (PKI)-based wireless e-commerce security standards.

In a move that has sent shock waves through its extensive dealer network, consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) launched a Web site today that will sell mass-customized VAIO personal computers and peripherals directly to consumers in Japan.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., brick-and-mortar insurance giant Allstate "will spark an all-out Internet war" in personal lines insurance by offering sales and service via the Internet.

X.com, a Palo Alto, California-based online bank, recently allowed customers who were setting up new accounts to specify the account number from which funds were being transferred. Unfortunately, X.com did not verify whether the person who was setting up the account had the right to transfer those f...

U.S. House of Representatives Policy Chairman Christopher Cox (R-California) announced Monday that he and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) will mount a fresh challenge to Internet taxation this legislative session by introducing a new "Internet Non-Discrimination Act."

Amazon.com caught Wall Street by surprise last Friday when it nonchalantly announced layoffs for the first time in its five-year history.

Software titan Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and online auction hosting company FairMarket announced the launch today of a business-to-business (B2B) auction site for Microsoft's new small business portal.

Chicago, Illinois-based Arthur Andersen has become the first of the "Big Five" accounting firms to take direct aim at Internet startup companies by launching a $500 million (US$) venture capital fund.

In an effort to challenge Costco Online's stranglehold on the Internet wholesale club market share, New York-based HouseHold Direct.com has launched an online store with an aggressive discount pricing plan.

Internet search engine and born-again portal AltaVista is paying a new network of affiliated Web sites for every surfer they send its way.

As New York City geared up for this week's LinuxWorld Expo, TurboLinux announced the release of a new server package that has been optimized for e-commerce.