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America Online announced today that Buenos Aires-based financial services Web site LatinStocks.com has signed an agreement to provide the giant online service provider with content and online stock trading.

In an effort to outduel Bill Gates-owned competitor Corbis, online image provider Getty Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: GETY) announced today that it has completed a $183 million (US$) acquisition of Eastman Kodak subsidiary The Image Bank.

Internet content service provider Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), fresh off of one of the most successful initial public offerings in U.S. stock market history, announced yesterday that it has signed more than 100 customers since the introduction of its high-speed service in April.

New online mall SingleShop.com will debut the day after Thanksgiving with a feature that allows shoppers to use the same shopping cart to store products from multiple merchants and pay for everything at once.

In an effort to bolster consumer confidence in e-commerce for the holiday season, TransNet Security, Inc. has launched a program to guarantee the security practices of Web sites across the Internet.

Online bookseller Alibris has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $250,000 (US$) fine in order to retire federal charges that it intercepted Amazon.com internal e-mails and possessed unauthorized password files.

Internet portal Lycos, Inc. announced today that it will spend $270 million (US$) in stock to acquire Boston, Massachusetts-based gaming site Gamesville.com.

The results of separate inquiries by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York State Attorney General are warning online trading firms to clean up their acts or risk regulatory crackdowns.

According to the November 22nd issue of PRWeek, U.S. presidential candidate Bill Bradley has combined e-commerce technology, an increasingly-popular message and the reach of the Internet to raise the most cyber dollars for the 2000 presidential campaign.

When the federal judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial appointed Chief Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois, to mediate talks aimed at resolving the case, many experts were caught by surprise.

Internet banking services provider Digital Insight (Nasdaq: DGIN) announced yesterday that it is purchasing rival nFront (Nasdaq: NFNT) in a stock-for-stock exchange.

According to Goldman Sachs and PC Data Online, the 1999 holiday shopping season kicked off the week of November 12-16 with a 17 percent spike in online gift buying. The uptick bucked an overall drop in Internet spending for that week.

America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it has bulked up its already-popular personal finance channel by signing a five-year agreement with Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) to offer an online service for household billing.

Discount brokerage TD Waterhouse (NYSE: TWE) announced Monday that it has continued its overseas expansion by launching an online service for the UK market.

America Online and United Artists Theatre Circuit announced an agreement today that will make expanded movie information and ticket sales available on all AOL brands, including AOL.COM, Netscape, CompuServe, ICQ, Digital City and Spinner.