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Last week, a federal judge disclosed plans to issue a preliminary injunction that would prevent auction portal Bidder's Edge, Inc. from gathering information off industry leader eBay's Web site.

Online auction portal Bidder's Edge announced Tuesday that it is canceling its pending sale to OpenSite after the online pricing solutions provider disclosed that it will be acquired by Siebel Systems, Inc. for $444 million (US$).

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Retek, Inc. (Nasdaq: RETK) strengthened its new CRM offerings today, as it announced an agreement to buy HighTouch Technologies for $27 million (US$).

Solutions provider ePartners completed its bookend of nationwide CRM offerings, as the Dallas, Texas-based company announced today that it will acquire the San Mateo, California-based LeadTrack Systems for an undisclosed sum. LeadTrack offers software for sales lead automation.

Privately-held eForce, a provider of e-business strategies, said Monday that its revenues rose 115 percent for the first quarter of the year to $4.3 million and its work force expanded rapidly to keep up with a growing customer base.

Octane Software, a provider of CRM applications and software, announced Monday that it sold its products to 32 new customers in the first quarter of the year, breaking a company record.

U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. and international banking group HSBC Holdings announced a $1 billion (US$) deal Tuesday to form a new online global banking and brokerage company.

U.S. shoppers will likely spend over $61 billion (US$) online this year, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group.

A new study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research indicates that the U.S. government's perceptions of why some Americans lack access to the Internet are widely divergent with reality.

Holland-based Royal Ahold plucked beleaguered online grocer Peapod from the edge of bankruptcy Friday, pledging to buy 51 percent of the Skokie, Illinois-based firm. Peapod will remain a stand-alone company, while Ahold will supply goods and services, including the use of its network of warehouses a...

In an ironic role reversal, a San Francisco, California-based music firm filed a lawsuit against Amazon last week for an alleged patent infringement. Amazon threw off the spark that ignited the patent firestorm when it sued Barnesandnoble.com last year for stealing its 1-Click shopping feature.

Triple-digit growth in online sales of leisure travel services is probably over, but indications are strong that the business will continue to flourish, according to a new study from Jupiter Communications (Nasdaq: JPTR).

Mortgage industry executives at last week's Second Annual Online Mortgage Forum in Chicago, Illinois declared that U.S. Web surfers are increasingly using the Internet to research loans and compare rates, but are still wary of closing a loan online.

Business solutions provider NCR (NYSE: NCR) said Monday that it has sold versions of its eBusiness Teradata Warehouse to E*Trade, Travelocity, Macys.com, and others since its recent launch.

Swedish business applications provider Industrial & Financial Systems, AB (IFS) said today that it sold its Atlanta, Georgia-based Exactium unit to Pivotal Corporation (Nasdaq: PVTL) for $34 million.