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Personal-finance software company Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) announced today that it has joined forces with CyberBills to enable consumers to pay all of their bills online at Intuit's Quicken.com.

Office Depot, Inc.has entered into a strategic partnership with PurchasePro.com, a provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions, that is aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses initiate online commerce.

Online postage provider Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) and America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced a three-year, $56 million (US$) alliance today that will make the Santa Monica, California-based Stamps.com the exclusive provider of Internet postage across AOL's brands.

Online toy seller eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Discovery Toys, the direct seller of children's educational and developmental products, to be its exclusive online distributor.

In an effort to compete with top competitor Autobytel, online automobile resource Autoweb.com (Nasdaq: AWEB) has brought financial software company Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) and online business network Hoover's Online (Nasdaq: HOOV) into its stable of Internet allies.

As e-businesses continue to turn their attention to ethnically-oriented Web sites, some minority groups in the United States are finally beginning to reap the benefits of the Internet's relentless expansion.

Home Access Health, an Illinois-based drug company, announced at the Internet Commerce Expo in San Francisco, California that it is using the technology of FaceTime Communications to provide online counseling for HIV patients.

In a poll of 500 Latin American companies, International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that 85 percent of the respondents are currently using or plan to use e-commerce within the next two years, and that Microsoft continues to dominate the mindshare market among companies in the region.

Just two months after online toy seller eToys, Inc. announced European expansion plans, it has launched a United Kingdom version of its popular Web site.

As part of an effort to turn around its losses, CompUSA launched a re-designed e-commerce Web site earlier this week.

Business software solutions provider Mainsoft Corp. is moving its MainWin product, a Windows platform developed for UNIX, to the realm of the Linux open-source operating system (OS).

According to new research by the Yankee Group, nearly 10 million U.S. homes will be digitally remodeled with home networking in the next four years.

America Online's AOL Foundation announced the launch today of Helping.org, a new philanthropy portal that is designed to provide an easy and cost-effective way for Americans to donate money or time to a wide range of charitable organizations.

Newly created Internet incubator ThinkTank.com announced today that it has received $200 million (US$) in capital from Softbank, the internationally-recognized Japanese Internet investor.

Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) launched its new PowerRankings service today, joining the crowd of research companies that are offering Web shoppers ranking services to help them navigate the merchant maze.