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The U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee convened yesterday to examine ways to crack down on mass junk mailers and prevent such so-called "spam" from thwarting efforts to build consumer confidence in electronic commerce ...

House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley's move to push the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act through the House of Representatives without the blessing of House leadership has backfired and resulted in defeat ...

Ford (NYSE:F) and General Motors (NYSE:GM), two of the big three U.S. automakers, have announced separate but similar initiatives to broaden the supply side of their businesses by establishing links with their suppliers over the Internet ...

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), one of the computing industry's early innovators but now a company playing catch-up in the online shopping business, has launched its new MSN eShop in an effort to reach out to consumers and merchants alike ...

In an effort to co-market the top two holiday season gift items, clothing giant Gap, Inc. and online toy seller eToys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETYS) are launching a holiday season promotional campaign ...

In a vote of 423 to 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill late last week to prevent the imposition of sales taxes on global Internet sales ...

At a hearing on Internet standards yesterday, a handful of e-commerce watchers told the U.S. Senate Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee to let the market decide how and where global electronic commerce matures ...

As online auctions expand into veritable sideshows and novelty acts, BMW has placed its new sports utility vehicle on eBay in an effort to drive sales and build notoriety ...

San Francisco, California-based MyWeb, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has forged an agreement with Chinese television channel TVSN China Ltd. to market the TV-based MyWeb Internet service and sell consumer goods advertised on TVSN ...

Netscape co-founder and recently departed AOL executive Marc Andreessen made his official return to the Web world yesterday by unveiling Loudcloud, Inc., a new venture comprised of what he calls a "dream team" of Net innovators ...

As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that would bar the intentional registration of domain names that are identical to or deceptively similar to a distinctive trademark ...

A U.S. House of Representatives bill to bancyber-squatting, the use of trademarked names as Internet domain names by people who do not hold the trademarks, has passed the Judiciary Committee and could come up for a vote as early as tomorrow. The bill, introduced in the House on October 6th, is largely unchanged from the text of a bill sent over from the Senate on September 8th. That bill moved through the Senate in just five weeks, sustaining only minor alterations and little debate. The House version includes the same general prohibition against cyber-squatting, adding a section defining the illegal use of trademarks in Internet domain names to the Trademark Act of 1946.

Publicly held telecommunications giant GTE filed a lawsuit against TCI and Comcast yesterday in an attempt to gain access to the two companies' Excite@Home Internet service ...

In a bid to compete with AOL and other industry leaders, Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) has unveiled a 1000-plus merchant shopping portal that it says more closely emulates a real shopping experience ...

In an effort to jumpstart its standing among Yahoo! and other leading power players, Internet portal Alta Vista unveiled its revamped look today ...

Operating on the assumption that all good domain names will soon be taken, Solutionhome.com, Inc. has opened a buying, selling and trading hub on the Internet to profit from individuals and companies who are willing to pay for a specific URL ...

Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. (NYSE: MWD) has announced the launch of ichoice, a new Web site that will combine the online trading service of its Discover Brokerage subsidiary with the online financial information pages operated by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter ...

The United States Federal Trade Commission released a set of rules Wednesday to implement the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, a law passed last fall amid heightened concern that children are being lured into making online purchases or sharing personal information that could threaten their safety ...

In an effort to compete with top competitor Autobytel, online automobile resource Autoweb.com (Nasdaq: AWEB) has brought financial software company Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) and online business network Hoover's Online (Nasdaq: HOOV) into its stable of Internet allies ...

As e-businesses continue to turn their attention to ethnically-oriented Web sites, some minority groups in the United States are finally beginning to reap the benefits of the Internet's relentless expansion ...