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Internet banking services provider Digital Insight (Nasdaq: DGIN) announced yesterday that it is purchasing rival nFront (Nasdaq: NFNT) in a stock-for-stock exchange ...

America Online and interactive entertainment software company Electronic Arts announced a five-year strategic alliance today to create and deliver online games and interactive entertainment content for all AOL properties ...

Magazine publisher Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. announced today that the Webcast of its Tuesday night lingerie fashion show, known as "Playboy's Club Lingerie," attracted more than 565,000 visits ...

Surprise, surprise. Yet another e-commerce-related software company saw its stock take off on its first day of trading on Tuesday. This time, the big winner was Quintus (Nasdaq: QNTS), which develops software that helps online business manage customer interactions. Quintus priced its initial public offering at $18 a share, and the stock more than tripled on Tuesday, rocketing 37 to 55...

Brick-and-mortar entertainment retailer Wherehouse Music and online entertainment superstore CheckOut.com announced a strategic alliance today that makes CheckOut.com the exclusive Internet partner for Wherehouse Music ...

The stock of e-commerce software company Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) has been one of the year's top performers, and things could be getting even hotter for the stock. Shares of Ariba climbed 13-3/8 to 210 on Monday after the company announced a deal with enterprise commerce software company InterWorld (Nasdaq: INTW). Ariba and InterWorld will weave some of their technology together and jointly invest in marketing and sales tools to promote the company's combined solutions. Shares of InterWorld gained 8-1/8 to 67-7/8 on Monday...

Internet search engine Ask Jeeves, Inc. announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire closely-held online customer-support software maker Net Effect Systems, Inc. for about $288 million (US$) in stock ...

In what is being billed as one of the largest private equity placements ever secured by an Internet company, online car retailer CarsDirect.com announced yesterday that it has closed a $280 million (US$) round of financing ...

Destination site AltaVista, which has Internet holding company CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) as its majority shareholder, announced today that it has signed up 800,000 users for free Internet access in the first three months of the service ...

Agillion, Inc., a business services company that helps small and mid-sized businesses build and manage personalized customer relationships online, announced today that it has closed a $40 million (US$) first round of funding led by such notable investors as Cisco Systems, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Hambrecht & Quist, Integral Capital Partners, and MSD Capitals...

E-commerce software and solutions company Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) announced today that it has agreed to acquire privately held CommerceBid.com, which develops business-to-business auction and reverse auction solutions ...

Snap.com and Xoom.com announced today that they have signed a three-year, $75 million (US$) agreement with Healthgate Data Corp., a health and medical resource site ...

In a broad three-year alliance between two leading interactive media and entertainment companies, America Online (NYSE: AOL) will invest $30 million (US$) and take an equity stake in Viacom subsidiary Blockbuster.com ...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in iUniverse.com, a company which bills itself as the largest Internet publishing portal ...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in iUniverse.com, a company which bills itself as the largest Internet publishing portal ...

Name-your-price retailer priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) reported a more than 15-fold increase in third-quarter revenue and a net loss that beat analysts' estimates on Thursday, but its stock price still fell in early trading today ...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), the Web's most-visited e-commerce site, reported a sharp rise in revenues when it announced its third-quarter results after the financial markets closed on Wednesday ...

Online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC) announced yesterday that it is partnering with privately held enba, a European online-only financial services company, to launch a European investment banking firm ...

Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET), the online network backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, announced today that it has acquired free Web site building and hosting service FreeYellow.com ...

Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) announced today that it has agreed to purchase online greeting card company Blue Mountain Arts Publishing for approximately $780 million (US$) in cash and stock, with the possibility of a bonus stock issue that would push the deal above $1 billion ...