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A report that the Chinese Government is considering a ban on foreign investment in Web companies sent shares of China.com (Nasdaq: CHINA) plummeting sharply Wednesday and caused jitters throughout the region.

Softbank Corp., one of the world's largest Internet investors, is teaming up with a Japanese home appliance retailer to launch a new shopping site for the growing Japanese market.

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) ventured into the private-label product market today with the launch of Amazon.com's Bag Shop. The new feature offers a custom-designed collection of six bags, which range in price from $29.99 to $79.99 (US$) and are designed to be "a high-quality, highly functional, fashio...

Woburn, Massachusetts-based FairMarket Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft, Dell, Excite@Home and other e-commerce portals to stage an all-out attack against eBay, Inc., the reigning online auction champion.

According to a new report from Forrester Research, Inc., 90 percent of Web sites fail to comply with basic privacy principles.

eSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESFT) announced this week that it will exclusively use the Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system (OS) in the development of its products.

According to a new study by the Information Technology Association of America, about one third of American adults would be less inclined to buy products on the Internet if those purchases were taxed. The unsurprising data was released in conjunction with the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerc...

In a move that is expected to boost awareness of online charity options for e-shoppers, Marketing Services Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSGI) has agreed to buy up to 18 percent of not-for-profit shopping center GreaterGood.com. The deal is pending shareholder approval.

beenz.com, which has developed a new e-commerce rewards system, announced an exclusive marketing alliance today with Excite U.K.. The joint venture between British Telecommunications and Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) will begin by offering bonus beenz to its first 100,000 registrants.

Leading office superstore Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) announced today that it is forming a new class of common stock to track the company's e-commerce performance.

TheLinuxStore.com, a division of EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZ), further fueled the Linux movement this week by offering e-commerce patrons a low-end PC that ships with a factory-installed copy of the open-source operating system (OS) by Wall Street sensation Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT).

The Reader's Digest Association (NYSE RDA) announced today that it has teamed up with Startek, Inc. (NYSE: SRT) to create gifts.com, an online gift shopping service. Reader's Digest is the most widely read magazine in the world, with a paid circulation of about 15 million.

With the issue of Internet regulation shifting front and center on the global agenda, the 19-member National Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce reconvened Tuesday for a two-day meeting in New York.

FirstLook.com, a new music-sampling Web site, was launched today by MusicNow, Inc. The new site, based on GoTo.com Inc.'s e-commerce model, gives top billing to artists and companies who are willing to pay more per click-through.

AIRbots, Inc. has launched Freescrip.com, a computerized prescription service that will enable doctors to write prescriptions electronically, track their status and make changes. The company believes that their Internet-based service could save physicians over an hour a day.