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Less than a year after becoming the smallest company in history to purchase Super Bowl airtime, online job recruiter HotJobs.com (Nasdaq: HOTJ) announced plans to air two 30-second commercials during the 2000 Super Bowl. One commercial is slated for the pre-game show, and the other will air during t...

Despite being overshadowed by Tuesday's announcement that Viacom will buy CBS for $37 billion in stock, SportsLine Europe -- the subsidiary of an Internet sports content provider with a strong CBS connection -- announced the launch of its first country-specific site, France.sports.com.

Healthcare information Web site Mediconsult.com has agreed to buy privately held Physicians Online for stock valued at about $165 (US$) million and the assumption of $13.5 million in debt.

In a new twist on a tried-and-true e-commerce concept, DollarDiscounter.com launched a Web site Monday that plans to sell online shopping dollars for 95 cents each. The virtual dollars will only be valid to buy items from online merchants in the DollarDiscounter.com mall.

According to the Consumer Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, trans-border electronic commerce could become a wide-open market if consumers felt more comfortable about other nations' online laws.

The British Broadcasting Corp. created a roar of protests last week when it launched its free Internet service known as www.freebeeb.net.

Leading online retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has extended its string of key executive appointments by installing a former Delta Airlines executive as its new chief financial officer.

Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), which develops and distributes commercial versions of the Linux operating system, has signed up PC manufacturer Gateway (Nasdaq: GTW) as an authorized reseller. Red Hat announced today that Gateway will now be able to install Red Hat's Linux-based operating system when ...

Healthcare information portal AmericasDoctor.com is scheduled to make its debut on Wall Street this week.

Despite the fanfare surrounding the debut of "digital wallets," it appears that the average consumer has yet to embrace the online shopping tool. This disappointing revelation has sent digital wallet promoters scrambling, as the fall shopping season gets underway without them.

According to industry analyst Forrester Research, Inc., leading Web strategists consider European e-commerce sites to be a good value and easy to use, but U.S. sites still remain the international benchmark of excellence.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), seeking to add value to its highly analyzed acquisition of StarDivision, recently tapped Linuxcare, Inc. to provide service and support for its new StarOffice productivity suite offering.

GoodHome.com continued its strong build-up today by announcing an anchor tenant marketing agreement with America Online and a premier sponsorship agreement with Women.com. The company plans to launch its Web site by the end of the year.

UK-based EarthPort.com PLC has teamed with Dutch company TNT Post Group to market its Globalcollect invoice-based cash collection service. This partnership will create an online holding account for shoppers who want to pay cash for their purchases. Once Internet surfers send money to EarthPort to cr...

Six of the biggest Internet companies joined forces last week to try and persuade governments throughout the world to make the laws regulating e-commerce more uniform.