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Concentric Network Corp. announced today that it will begin offering Office 2000 software via the Internet in early 2000.

Prodigy Communications Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy out rival FlashNet Communications for stock valued at about $120 million (US$).

E-tail success usually comes when a company outdoes its adversaries with a hard-hitting mix of product, price and ease-of-use.

The debate over online privacy policies is taking shape in Washington today as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce host a day-long workshop on "online profiling," the practice of collecting consumer information based on their online activities and using that data to crea...

The e-commerce boom has turned countless caffeine-addled GenXers into near billionaires. One day, they're running up cash advances on 17 different credit cards while setting up shop in mom and dad's basement, the next day, they're meeting with Benchmark and Sequoia, securing the capital to race down...

American Express announced the launch of its American Express Brokerage today, becoming the latest in a series of traditional brick-and-mortar brokerages and financial firms to launch major online trading sites.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., AOL and Yahoo! have been slow to cash in on instant messaging as a corporate collaboration tool.

Name-your-price pioneer priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it will add long distance telephone calls to its offerings by the beginning of next year and will eventually offer a name-your-price business-to-business long distance service.

Rainbow Technologies (Nasdaq: RNBO), a provider of security systems for the Internet and e-commerce, announced today that it has forged a joint venture with Goldensoft Co. Ltd of Beijing to create a channel for domestic and international companies to market software in China while minimizing the ris...

OpenAuto.com announced the launch today of an online marketplace that allows car buyers to use the anonymity of the Internet to research and price cars and strengthen their bargaining position.

Agillion, Inc., a business services company that helps small and mid-sized businesses build and manage personalized customer relationships online, announced today that it has closed a $40 million (US$) first round of funding led by such notable investors as Cisco Systems, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanl...

Federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released late Friday afternoon a much-anticipated decision in which Microsoft was determined to be operating as a monopoly. This ruling is expected to have a tremendous impact on the future of Microsoft, as well as on the direction of the global computer softwar...

The U.S. Postal Service, once considered a potential "victim" of the Internet's speed and convenience, has announced a new system to help consumers hurdle one of the last barriers to online shopping -- merchandise returns.

With Halloween behind us, holiday shopping is about to break. Marketing managers at e-tailers around the world are wringing their hands and watching their click-throughs.

Running ads on Web sites used to be for big companies with big advertising budgets. Now that it's free, it's anybody's game.