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The dog days of summer might be fast approaching, but for Pets.com, the prelude to summer has been an invigorating walk in the park -- so far ...

One of the partners behind Buy.com, E*Trade, GeoCities,Yahoo! and a host of other prominent Internet properties has apparently taken a liking to Global Sports (Nasdaq: GSPT), an e-commerce provider for a number of sporting goods retailers ...

Much as we Americans like to think that we have a firm command on all things Internet, it's clear that the rest of the world is catching on to the global reach of the Web ...

German automaker Porsche lost a round of its battle against 138 Internet domain names it says infringes on its trademark, when a U.S. District Court in Virginia dismissed the company's attempt to sue the domain names rather than the individuals who registered the names ...

Having assisted in pioneering the booming online investing industry in the U.S., DLJdirect (NYSE: DIR), the online brokerage service of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., has crossed the Pacific and is preparing to launch its new trading service aimed at the Japanese market ...

Apparently not batting an eye at the swirling winds of controversy that whistle around the Web music site MP3.com, Cox Interactive Media, Inc. announced Wednesday that it would invest $45 million (US$) in the company and form a joint-venture to create music-related Web sites ...

In an effort to expand its network beyond the village's frontiers, iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL), one of the most popular online networks for women, is pushing the e-commerce buttons of expectant mothers ...

Newly-minted DriveOff.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Navidec, Inc.(Nasdaq: NVDC) announced Friday that it has signed an agreement with Westar Financial Services -- and a letter of intent with First Union Capital Markets Group -- that will provide up to $1 billion (US$) in funding annually for auto sales that originate on DriveOff.com and its affiliated sites...

Facing the threat of legal action from the New York Times over its price-discounting of books on the newspaper's best-seller list, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed for declaratory relief in a U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington Thursday, effectively asking to be allowed to continue the practice ...

Pegasus Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEGS), a Dallas, Texas-based company which specializes in online hotel reservations, announced Thursday that it was chosen to provide its services to a newly-launched Japanese travel site that is featured on that country's second-largest Web portal ...

Someone was bound to think of it. Give the Gen X caboose a name, get their too-busy-to-shop parents to give up their credit card numbers and establish an online account for their kids and finally, convince the kid that they have better things to do than hanging out at the mall ...

The unofficial start of the summer season brought sunshine and good vibrations to Techies.com, a network of career resource sites for technology professionals. The company announced Tuesday that it signed a two-year agreement with AOL's Digital City network to provide its services to the network's 4.3 million users ...

Media giant CBS (NYSE: CBS) continued its foray into the online world Wednesday, with the announcement that it reached an agreement to take a 35% stake in Switchboard.com in exchange for $135 million (US$) worth of branding and promotion over the next 10 years ...

Virtually no one disputes the fact that the future of e-commerce is dependent on public trust and the perception that sitting down at a computer terminal to buy goods and services is as safe as the checkout line of a superstore in Anywhere, USA ...

Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike ...

Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike ...

FOX Entertainment Group (NYSE: FOX) announced Thursday that it has formed a new media company called The Health Network. The new venture is scheduled to launch on cable and the Internet in July ...

As popular as the game of golf has become in the United States, it's even more so in Japan. Club membership prices can soar into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and a wide back swing is guaranteed to clip a fellow golfer in a nation with too many golfers and not enough land ...

Fresh off a deal with eBay last month that calls for its being the auction site's leading shipper, Mail Boxes Etc. announced Tuesday that it will invest significantly in the e-commerce shipping business and the technology required to wire a network for its 3,000 domestic franchises ...

Billed as the one of the Internet's first e-commerce portals, BUY.COM has said it keeps its customers' wallets first and foremost in mind when it posts products in its virtual storefronts. The company backed up its claim Tuesday when it announced the opening of an electronic goods surplus store ...