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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Monday that it was partnering with Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) and Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq: BALT) to design, develop, and market a Windows 2000-based software package that incorporates Identrus, an electronic identity verification system ...

Word of mouth is one of the strongest marketing mediums available -- so strong that some struggling dot-coms, desperate to save advertising dollars, are begging their customers to help spread the word about their products and services ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Thursday that it had taken legal action against two online Florida businesses for alleged distribution of counterfeit software ...

An online business directory designed to make business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce simpler and more efficient went live Wednesday ...

Despite speculation that Internet behemoth Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) will eventually open real world stores as a way to boost profits and make product returns easier, a senior executive with the company said Tuesday that Amazon intends to stay in cyberspace for the time being ...

Although some e-tailers argue that imposing a sales tax on Internet purchases would cause online sales to plummet, a study released Tuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix concluded that most consumers are indifferent to the presence of an online sales tax ...

In the days when everyone believed that the future of the economy lay in cyberspace, many dot-coms unwittingly built financial houses of cards by investing substantially in their online brethren ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to purchase privately held e-business software company NCompass Labs, reportedly for US$36 million ...

Dot-com companies claimed more executive departures than any other business sector in April, according to a study released Monday by Chicago, Illinois-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC) ...

Internet postal provider Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) announced Monday that it has acquired the domain name, URL and various patents from former competitor E-Stamp for US$7.5 mission ...

Gone are the days when visiting dusty warehouses and digging through bins of junk were the only ways to buy bargains from the government. Now a number of government agencies have gone high tech and are using Web sites like eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) to auction off surplus property, ranging from jalopies to jewelry ...

Taking a cue from rival IBM, Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) announced late Thursday that it has reached an agreement to buy Internet consultancy Proxicom (Nasdaq: PXCM) for US$266 million in cash ...

KB Toys said Thursday that it is purchasing "substantially all" of defunct e-tailer eToys' inventory for US$5.4 million, as part of eToys' bankruptcy proceedings ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) said late Wednesday that it has bought out BMG Entertainment's stake in GetMusic, an online e-commerce and music information site founded jointly by the companies in 1999 ...

In the heyday of the dot-com explosion, companies rushed to hold initial public offerings (IPOs), taking advantage of the belief that Internet companies were virtual gold mines just waiting to be harvested ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced late Thursday that it is acquiring Internet business consulting firm Mainspring (Nasdaq: MSPR) for approximately US$83 million in cash ...

Amazon-backed Ashford.com(Nasdaq: ASFD) announced this week that it has received noticefrom the Nasdaq that the company no longer complies with the exchange's US$1minimum bid requirement and that the stock faces delisting ...

Automotive e-marketplace Covisint announced Wednesday that it had chosen Kevin W. English, a former Wall Street executive with no automotive experience, as its first chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board ...

Two men pleaded guilty Tuesday in Sacramento, California federal court to scamming eBay users out of US$450,000 over two years by self-bidding on their own auctions to drive up prices ...

The New York Attorney General's office announced Monday that it has settled a deceptive advertising case with brick-and-click computer products retailer CompUSA ...