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In what is starting to become the Internet's equivalent of the old brick-and-mortar cry of "location, location, location," e-commerce moving firm Move.com is paying $40 million (US$) to popular portal AltaVista for preferred space on their site.

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The U.S. government reportedly will take its concerns about China's proposed encryption disclosure rules to the six-day World Economic Forum conference getting underway in Davos, Switzerland.

Online automobile buying network Autobytel.com (Nasdaq:ABTL) revealed plans to launch further online services for car-buyers in Europe this year, as it boosted its revenues from e-commerce in the fourth quarter ended December 31st, 1999.

E-commerce solutions provider BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced Thursday that it plans to work with Nokia to create a new standards-based solution for building wireless e-commerce applications.

Linux-based computer system manufacturer EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZE) and online auctioneer iDEAL International, Inc. announced a deal Thursday to offer Linux-related products to patrons of the DealDeal.com business-to-consumer (B2C) auction site.

Despite raking in millions of dollars a day through its e-commerce operations, online PC sales giant Dell Computer Corp. announced yesterday that its earnings and revenue will fall short of expectations for the second quarter in a row.

In a letter that is bound to strain bipartisan cooperation on e-commerce issues, U.S. House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Virginia) has taken President Clinton to task for his decision to ask for increased oversight of online drug vendors.

With companies in nearly every industry developing online business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces, a feeding frenzy of optimistic reports is coming from research firms to hail the major new market.

Japan is taking business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce to a new level by introducing a system that allows customers to order goods online but pay cash for them in brick-and-mortar convenience stores.

One of the great stereotypes about dot-com companies is that they are all bleeding red ink despite raising millions of dollars (US$) in well-publicized Silicon Valley IPOs.

China has sent ripples of distress through the Internet community with a variety of new rules concerning state secrets and encryption, but is seeking today to reassure foreign investors that the regulations will not limit the free exchange of online information.

Medtronic, a $4+ billion (US$) provider of medical devices, has announced plans to invest a total of $330 million in two deals that are designed to take its cardiovascular and neurological stimulation devices into the world of e-commerce.

In an effort to bring e-commerce and the Internet to a vast continent where computers have not yet become a mainstream business and consumer tool, Web site developer e-Media LLC announced a deal Wednesday to help launch a versatile site for the extended African community around the world.

eBay, Inc. has lined up Hong Kong-based China.com (Nasdaq: CHINA) to help market its new eBay Chinatown trading community to Asian users.