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Sun Microsystems, Inc. and AOL subsidiary Netscape announced today that they are joining forces with three top U.S. banks to create a new online bill-paying service.

In what some observers see as an ominous sign for Microsoft, the Justice Department announced last week that it has hired a veteran Wall Street investment banker as an advisor in its antitrust case against the software giant.

According to a new study by Forrester Research B.V., the Internet's reach in Western Europe will nearly double over the next three years as digital technology becomes more commonplace.

AT&T Corp. has reached an agreement that will eventually allow rival online services to use its cable lines to provide high-speed Internet access.

Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) -- the American question-and-answer-based search engine with the distinctly English butler -- announced today that it has formed an international subsidiary and has signed a joint venture deal with two British television companies to provide its service in the UK.

Online consumer bill payment service Paytrust.com announced today that it has received $30 million (US$) in second-round venture capital from American Express, Japanese Internet investor Softbank and a variety of venture capital firms.

European sports destination site Sports.com, a majority-owned subsidiary of SportsLine.com (Nasdaq: SPLN), announced today that it will raise $49 million (US$) in a second round of funding through the issuance of preferred stock.

AT&T Corp. has reached an agreement that will eventually allow rival online services to use its cable lines to provide high-speed Internet access.

In what some observers see as an ominous sign for Microsoft, the Justice Department announced last week that it has hired a veteran Wall Street investment banker as an advisor in its antitrust case against the software giant.

Yesterday, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce David Aaron reported that ministers at the WTO meeting in Seattle, Washington had agreed to keep the Internet tax-free, probably well into next year.

According to figures released by Nielsen//NetRatings on Thursday, toy sites, comparison sites and Net malls saw their traffic soar an average of 70 percent from the first week in November through the month's final week.

It has been eight months since toy giant Mattel, Inc. put on a dog and pony show for stock analysts, touting ambitious plans to storm cyberspace.

If there is any one thing that many Internet businesses have not considered in their business plans, it could be described simply as "limitations."

Buried in the reams of paper that U.S. President Bill Clinton signed this week to complete the federal budget for fiscal year 2000 are e-commerce-friendly tidbits such as a ban on cyber-squatting and an order to examine the issue further.

VA Linux Systems announced this week that it will tap Loki Entertainment Software to push the Debian GNU/Linux package to consumers through retail channels.