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There's no doubt that streaming media is going to affect how we purchase information and entertainment in the next millennium. However, the problem with this kind of new media right now is that it's often simply a pain for consumers. Downloading can be tedious, and sometimes unbearably slow. Right n...

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) announced today that it will build an e-commerce portal for small independent bookstores, that will be located at Booksense.com.

Video Pipeline Inc., of Haddonfield, New Jersey, a long-time provider of in-store video promotions, is now offering the service to Internet based storefronts.

If you're involved in music, or any technology that must be streamed, the present battle over the MP3 format deserves a close look.

Database and Internet solutions heavyweight Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced on Thursday powerful third-quarter gains and key e-commerce deals. The company reported a whopping 36% increase in profits for the quarter ending February 28, 1999, and major contracts with e-commerce leaders lik...

Ticketmaster Online - CitySearch (Nasdaq: TMCS) announced on Friday a new service called "CitySearch Commerce," that enables small and medium-sized businesses to conduct electronic commerce. The new service augments CitySearch's existing Web site development offerings for small businesses. Similar t...

Catalog company Lands' End (NYSE: LE), which sells apparel and gifts, reported disappointing, though encouraging earnings on Thursday. This is not a contradiction. Overall fourth-quarter earnings fell 38 percent (including charges) to $25.7 million (US$). But the mail-order company's stock climbed m...

The Coca-Cola Co. announced recently it had bought, and will re-develop, a vast stretch of land opposite my kids' small private school in downtown Atlanta. On the next block an Embassy Suites Hotel is going up, and across from there, Turner Broadcasting is renovating its giant CNN Center. In this en...

Microsoft wants the government's help in breaking a vicious monopoly, and the case could set a powerful precedent for electronic commerce.

Many Internet stocks got a boost on Wednesday, thanks to positive comments from Merrill Lynch. You might remember that Merrill had a short-term rating of "reduce" for Amazon.com in late January. On Wednesday, Merrill rated Amazon.com "accumulate" and set a 12-month price target of $150.

E-commerce giants Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) are linking their content and online sales strategies, starting with a new co-branded Web site infrastructure announced on Wednesday. The joint venture will be linked from Dell's and Amazon's checkout pages and, will provid...

Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) announced on Wednesday the completion of its acquisition of Shopping.com (OTC:IBUY), an online retailer of goods and services. Compaq hopes that its ownership of Shopping.com and the AltaVista Internet portal site will usher in a new era of Internet-based sales...

Less than one week after Microsoft made many of its e-commerce plans public, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's No. 2 software company, added some firepower to its e-commerce arsenal.

On March 8, Intel announced it has reached a settlement on anti-trust charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. Before the terms were even public, reports surfaced that Microsoft is discussing a settlement of its problems with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Netscape Communications (Nasdaq: NSCP) announced on Tuesday that it will integrate comprehensive support for XML across its portfolio of e-commerce applications. According to the company, support for the XML language is a key ingredient to Netscape's e-commerce strategy. Netscape's implementation of...