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The National Retail Federation is bringing together some of the Internet's biggest commercial technology names to provide guidance for companies looking to create a retail presence on the Web. IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp., Netcentives and Net Perceptions agreed to join the newly-formed Internet Commerce Council. The group is headed by eGain Communications and BeFree Inc...

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 holders from illegitimate sales ...

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 ...

Two new Web sites are bringing the $275 billion (US$) commercial printing industry to the Internet, changing the way orders and supplies will be distributed online ...

Online auctioneer eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced this week that it has added automobiles and everything car-related to its auction lineup. Additionally, a separate section called "The Showroom" will offer collector cars through an alliance with Kruse International, a large collectible auto firm ...

E-commerce security provider Entrust Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) has entered into an agreement to secure e-Scotia.com, a newly established subsidiary of Canada-based Scotiabank. The pact comes on the heels of the recently-launched Entrust Secure Enabled E-Business (SEE) program, which was designed to help define security standards for firms that conduct business over the Internet...

In a response to the widening controversy over Internet sales taxes, representatives from across the United States opened debate on a proposal to simplify state sales taxes at a meeting of the National Governors Association in Atlanta, Georgia ...

Just days after rolling out a new feature it hoped would give shoppers another reason to browse its online book shelves, Amazon.com yielded to complaints from some book buyers that their privacy had been invaded. The Internet's top bookseller will now revamp their 'Purchase Circles,' which were designed to steer online gift-buyers to selected book, music or video selections...

According to a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), the "logistics chaos" of fulfilling online orders remains a serious liability to virtual retailers and the industry as a whole ...

In an attempt to make Internet users redefine their conception of a 'search service,' ReturnMe.com has launched an online lost and found for items misplaced in the wide, wide real world ...

America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) has had a busy week in the fashion business, adding two new groups of stores to its Shop@AOL online mall. The largest deal, with Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS), is a three-year joint marketing and commerce agreement that will put the Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy on AOL's sites. In addition, AOL will add Cache, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: CACH) specialty women's clothing to its shopping lineup...

In an effort to close the technology gap between America's white and black citizens, U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley publicly pledged to address the issue at a national conference this fall. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, who is black and a Dartmouth graduate, joined Daley in the announcement ...

In a move that will distribute "good toys" across its line of animated Internet properties, the Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG) announced Wednesday that it has acquired a controlling interest in toysmart.com ...

As 16 to 24 year-olds continue to emerge as a dominant e-commerce force, Student Advantage, Inc. and Embark.com have staked a claim to the Internet-savvy college market ...

With fraud emerging as the number one threat to their industry, a group of e-commerce development companies are mounting a counter-attack. The new Internet Fraud Prevention Advisory Council, led by HNC Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: HNCS), has won widespread support as it attempts to eradicate consumer fears of buying and selling online ...

Although the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has backed off its plan to charge $1 ($US) for every domain name registered, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Virginia) continues to probe the group's finances and activities ...

In a move designed to help online shoppers sift through the abundance of products on the web, BuyWiz Inc. has launched a free "universal shopping cart" program. The software, which can be downloaded from the BuyWiz Web site, allows shoppers to collect items from a variety of different online stores and save that information in one place ...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced Friday that it is introducing a new feature which will enable shoppers' preferences to steer other online gift-buyers to a book, music or video selection ...

E-commerce payment technology developer CyberCash, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYCH) announced Friday that it has picked up another $15 million in equity investments through a private placement of stock and warrants. CyberCash plans to use the money for expansion, marketing, acquisitions and investments ...