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The House and Senate Commerce Committees moved in perfect harmony this week, passing companion bills to allow digitally encrypted information to be exported. If they become law, the measures would open America's doors to increased electronic commerce in world markets.

Moving to strengthen its presence in the Asian market, America Online announced Friday that it has acquired a 10 percent stake in Internet company China.com.

Even as Microsoft fights for its corporate life at its federal antitrust trial, some say it's switching into hyper-drive in a plan to combat the threat of the Linux operating system.

At an International Data Corp. (IDC) conference held in Prague this week, experts predicted steady growth in the field of e-commerce for Eastern Europe, driven largely by regional IT market growth.

The United States Senate is taking relatively fast steps to curtail gambling on the Internet, but its counterparts on the other side of the Capitol have yet to pay attention to the issue.

Music and entertainment retailer Musicland (NYSE: MLG) is hoping that e-commerce will turn its fortunes around. Musicland, which operates more than 1,300 brick-and-mortar stores including Sam Goody, Suncoast, MediaPlay and OnCue, announced Wednesday that it has launched e-commerce stores for all of ...

Among the flurry of votes Wednesday by the Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Spencer Abraham's (R-Michigan) S.761 Millennium Digital Commerce Act won approval with minimal tinkering by committee members. As previously reported, the bill would make little substantive change in U.S. policy but would ...

E*Offering, the online investment bank partially owned by E*Trade, is reporting that its public offering as a lead underwriter raised $73 million (US$) for e-commerce technology and service provider, First Sierra Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq:BTOB).

At the same time a new study by Nielson Media Research and CommerceNet showed that the number of women making purchases online is skyrocketing, elected officials at two separate meetings held last week called for the taxation of the Internet.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has posted a patch on its Security Advisor Web page to eliminate a significant vulnerability discovered by eEye, an independent online security firm, and reported on last week by the E-Commerce Times.

While the issue of potential e-commerce taxes loomed over the first session of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, the commission grappled with political issues after its chairman recommended that it hire a woman with potential conflicts to be its executive director.

Banks like electronic billing because it is cost-efficient and can be faster than traditional forms of securing payment.

The U.S. Commerce Department is looking at electronic commerce to provide the primary economic growth for the United States over the next 100 years, but at the same time, the agency has not yet figured out how big an impact Internet business has had on the country to date.

Suggesting the U.S. government and its state and local counterparts are predators "poised to take advantage of the new kid on the block -- electronic commerce," the Association for Interactive Media has launched an Online Shopping Council watchdog group.

Applix, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLX) has announced the creation of a new Linux division to source and brand applications for the increasingly popular open-source operating system (OS).