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Just over a week ago, Utility.com landed $30 million (US$) in venture capital from Trident Capital and Idealab!.

With an eye toward generating $1 billion (US$) in hardware, software and services revenue over the next three years, IBM announced Tuesday that it has formed new alliances in the Internet banking, retail and insurance sectors.

Dataquest, Inc., a unit of research firm GartnerGroup (NYSE: IT), said worldwide database software spending reached $8 billion in 1999, with Oracle leading the way.

Data warehousing company NCR Corporation and Experian announced today that they have signed a joint marketing agreement to offer integrated CRM solutions to the telecommunications industry.

While the so-called "Linux Hysteria" seemed to fade long before the Nasdaq started to sputter, the open-source platform capitalized on Microsoft's antitrust troubles by moving steadily into the server arena and grabbing the attention of Internet-centric operations.

As U.S. e-commerce spending moves toward a projected $2 trillion (US$) by 2003, the market for packaged e-commerce software is also expected to increase dramatically, according to Forrester Research.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Monday that they have halted ad campaigns by 14 online brokerages that promised easy profits using their systems.

Despite the endless posturing and legal wrangling that has taken place over the duration of the Microsoft antitrust drama, Friday's proposal by the U.S. Justice Department and 19 states to split the software titan into two competing companies must have come as quite a heavy blow to Bill Gates.

Targeting individuals for the first time in its case against the Napster MP3 browser, lawyers for heavy metal band Metallica said Monday that they had identified more than 335,000 individuals who allegedly swapped the band's music on Napster in violation of copyright law.

NBCi Internet, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBCI), the Internet network arm of NBC, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Husdawg Communications, a CRM provider for the computer hardware and software industry.

Lake Forest, Illinois-based eLoyalty (Nasdaq: ELOY) said Monday that it has signed the first customer for its Loyalty Foundation, a hosted CRM suite that it says offers customers an alternative to on-premise solutions with no capital investment.

Juno Online Services (Nasdaq: JWEB), the world's second largest ISP, said Monday it has selected IslandData to be its primary e-mail support tool.

WebTone Technologies and Unica Corporation announced the launch of an integrated CRM solution Monday.

Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Gateway, Inc. announced plans Monday to form an alliance with nine computer parts suppliers to create an online marketplace that could cut their annual supply costs by five to seven percent.

Responding swiftly to news that Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Computer Corp. and Gateway, Inc. are launching an online marketplace for supply chain management, IBM disclosed Monday that it is developing a similar Internet marketplace for purchasing and inventory control.