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Concentric Network Corp., a leading provider of network services, announced today that it has agreed to buy Web hosting company 9 Net Avenue, Inc. for $54 million (US$) in stock and cash.

Retail powerhouse Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has taken direct aim at eToys and Amazon.com by focusing its redesigned Web site on toys, books and consumer electronics.

Less than a week after Amazon.com muscled into the online shopping mall market with its new zShops feature, other online portals have begun to fight back with a variety of creative strategies.

Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) is taking an e-commerce security seminar series on the road this month, bringing product demos and security advice to 26 American cities.

Microsoft Corp. has announced that is joining forces with 35 media and technology companies in an effort to prod consumers into adopting broadband Internet connections.

A new report by Forrester Research, Inc. found that despite growing consumer comfort with online credit purchasing, the fear of using plastic on the Internet is still the largest obstacle to e-commerce.

This week, Linux-based hardware solutions vendor VA Linux Systems moved to support startup Web portal LinuxNewbie.com (LNC), a site aimed at introducing the public to the increasingly popular open-source operating system (OS).

Security solutions provider Diversinet Corp. (Nasdaq: DVNT) has announced a $1 million (US$) common stock deal to acquire the operating assets of Ubiq Communications Inc., and to accelerate its presence in the wireless e-commerce arena. The companies will collectively focus on a wireless trading ini...

Online broker E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) and Japanese joint-venture partner Softbank announced the launch of E*Trade Japan today. The launch coincides with today's deregulation of Japanese trading commission rates, which will enable brokers to determine commissions for securities trades.

House Policy Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-California) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) launched a bipartisan effort yesterday that calls upon the Clinton administration to support a permanent moratorium on global Internet e-commerce tariffs at November's World Trade Organization meeting in ...

A recent two-month summer study by Grainger Consulting Services, a division of W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) confirms that e-commerce procurement is a significant benefit to both buyer and seller. The study shows that buyers who made investments to acquire and implement e-procurement methods avera...

Earlier this week, I came home from a well-earned vacation in Las Vegas to find an e-mail waiting for me from my editor, which had the following message in the subject box: "Open this after you've had a few drinks."

According to a study by Sage Software, 29 percent of small U.S. companies who currently have a Web site are using it for e-commerce activities.

Consumer Reports, the venerable 63 year-old magazine that rates products and services, will begin evaluating electronic commerce companies on its consumerreports.org Web site.

Winstar Communications, Inc., has announced the launch of Office.com, an online business service and product site for small and medium-sized companies.