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VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), a provider of online trust services, and Internet service provider (ISP) MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSPG) have announced a strategic partnership to promote e-commerce through an enhanced secure online business offering.

For sports fans across the nation who gripe about the state of collegiate and professional sports these days, the new legal sports site launched by FindLaw, Inc. will add more fuel to the fire.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission came a step closer to allowing federal law-enforcement agencies to use the Internet to tap into your e-mail and voice messages. By giving the high-tech industry another year to come up with a legal way to monitor the packet-mode communications used fo...

Online pharmacy PlanetRx.com announced today that it will acquire the e-commerce operations of Express Scripts, Inc.'s yourPharmacy.com. The deal will bring yourPharmacy's 36 million users to the site.

According to the Software & Information Industry Association, more than half of the software being offered on Internet auction sites is pirated. After a six-day study by its anti-piracy division, the SIIA issued a "buyer beware" advisory Tuesday to protect online shoppers and software copyright ...

Name-your-price retailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it has teamed up with Alliance Capital Partners to offer name-your-price mortgages nationwide. Priceline.com believes that the online mortgage application will save some homebuyers up to $1,000 (US$) in closing costs.

New Internet venture capital firm eCompanies announced Wednesday that a soon-to-be-launched online hobby site will be the first of many investments in Internet start-ups. The financial terms were not disclosed.

Bertelsman Music Group's BMG Direct, Inc. will now allow its customers to decide which songs belong together on a CD. Through an alliance with CustomDisc.com, BMG plans to offer custom-made CDs to the more than 9 million members of its Music Club.

With research firms projecting e-commerce revenues of more than $100 billion in 2003, businesses large and small are considering jumping into the electronic commerce marketplace.

While younger online shoppers crisscross the Web in search of the perfect deal, surfing seniors are quietly making purchases.

In a move that is expected to catapult China to the next level of Internet commerce, the People's Bank of China has signed up a Texas-based company, Sun Microsystems' Chinese subsidiary and a Beijing-based software firm to provide secure authentication tools for the bank's e-commerce projects.

Wall Street pundits are fingering the uncertainty of interest rates as the main culprit behind the less-than-glamorous debut of many initial public offerings in August.

Internet toy marketer eToys, Inc. announced today that it will soon expand internationally by launching a Web site in the United Kingdom.

Self-avowed music rebel MP3.com and established media conglomerate Cox Interactive Media announced Tuesday that they will form a new company to create a network of Internet music portal sites.

E-smith, formerly known as Powerframe Internetworking, joined the recent flurry of Linux-related activity by announcing version 3.0 of a server and gateway product that turns a PC into a turnkey Internet server.