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In response to a recent firestorm of criticism regarding the security of its products, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) left a Web server with a beta version of Windows 2000 and the embattled Internet Information server (IIS) outside its firewall this week.

Unknown to many of us here on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Scandinavians have been out in the forefront of many Internet-related matters. Today's Norwegian, Swede, Finn or Danish software engineer is the modern-day version of Eric the Red and his Viking cohorts, leading the rest of Euro...

So far this week, four highly touted Internet initial public offerings have come out of the box flat. Some think their less than spectacular performance could be a signal that finally the supply of new IPOs has caught up with -- or exceeded -- Wall Street's demand.

Cyberian Outpost, Inc., an online e-marketeer of computer products, and chain store Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, Inc. announced Monday that they have joined forces to sell consumer electronics via the Internet.

Set to be folded into the NBCi Internet merger shortly, direct e-commerce company Xoom.com (Nasdaq: XMCM) ventured out from under the umbrella Tuesday to acquire online comparison shopping guide, LiquidMarket, Inc. for $45 million in stock.

Since some people still insist on going to stores and other public places to take care of their shopping needs, rather than looking online, one of the nation's largest portal companies is taking its services where the people are. America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL) unveiled a strategic partnership Tuesd...

Online sports content network Sportsline USA (Nasdaq: SPLN) has a name that makes it sound like it only focuses on American sports, but the company now has its eyes on Europe. Today, Sportsline USA announced that its Sportsline Europe division has launched a new site for fans of European sports. If ...

Does time spent shopping on the Internet count as billable hours? Attorneys across the country now have a new dilemma to wrestle with as Attorneys Online Inc. debuts its new shopping site, America's Legal Super Store. Attorneys Online, a subsidiary of The Publishing Company of North America Inc. (Na...

The Internet industry rumor mill was spinning wildly Tuesday with reports that Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) has been in discussions with Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) that could culminate in at least a $17 billion (US$) takeover of the newly-merged company by Yahoo!.

It might be a foreign company with little household name appeal to a majority of Web surfers, but Oslo, Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer (FST) lays claim to having built the world's biggest search engine.

Starbucks' new Internet strategy does little more than sugarcoat its weak earnings, so says a report released last week by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research, Inc. Furthermore, the report is highly critical of the Seattle, Washington specialty coffee retailer's "nebulous plan" to laun...

The UK's Gameplay.com, an online computer game portal, hopes to raise 31 million pounds ($51 million US$) today, by selling 23 million shares in an initial public offering on London's Alternative Investment Market.

In an attempt to raise millions of dollars to fund their mounting expenses in an e-commerce "War of the Roses," FTD.com and 1-800-Flowers.com -- two rival online florists -- are slated to make their debuts on Wall Street this week.

Leading Internet investment bank BancBoston Robertson Stephens is banking on drawing a crowd as it unveils its 1999 Investing in Innovations Conference today in San Francisco.

In an announcement equivalent to kicking sand at the beach or raining on the parade, Internet marketing research company Greenfield Online said that online shopping decreased three percent this past quarter, the first e-commerce decrease the company's surveys have revealed in the past year.