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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.

Eight Internet-based service companies were the latest to sign up for an e-fulfillment system from B2B solutions provider Descartes (Nasdaq: DSGX), the company announced today.

Internet delivery service Kozmo.com was sued Thursday by the Equal Rights Center, a Washington D.C.-based civil rights group, and two African-American co-plaintiffs who claim the company refused to deliver merchandise to their homes because they reside in predominantly African-American neighborhoods...

E-commerce giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and four other Internet sites that employ music sampling features were slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit Friday by Intouch Group, Inc., a San Francisco, California-based provider of in-store kiosks and Internet music sampling technology.

In what is being hailed as a landmark decision, a Bavarian state court ruled earlier this week that AOL Germany is responsible for allowing users to swap pirated music files via its online service. The court's action may finally give the music industry a powerful weapon against Internet piracy.

A federal court judge in Boston, Massachusetts has ordered a notorious Canadian cybersquatter to close down a site that infringes upon the copyright of search engine Northern Light.com.

A Microsoft engineer reportedly included a back door in the company's Microsoft Internet Information Server software that could enable hackers to break into hundreds of thousands of Web sites around the world.

U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota) has asked the U.S. Justice Department to launch an investigation into whether a proposed business-to-business (B2B) exchange by six leading meat companies would violate antitrust regulations.

In the wake of a report predicting that e-commerce players with brick-and-mortar outlets will be most likely to survive the impending dot-com shakeout, AltaVista said Thursday it will partner with Musicland Stores Corporation, a chain that operates four Web sites of its own and more than 1,300 retai...

Internet-only computer maker Netpliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: NPLI) announced Wednesday that it has landed a deal with online auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) that will allow users to access the auction site with one push of a button.

In a decision that could have a chilling effect on online auctioneers, Internet Service Providers and e-commerce companies, a German judge has ruled that AOL Germany violated copyright law by taking no action to prevent subscribers from swapping pirated digital music files.

In a rare show of bipartisan unity, 42 U.S. governors attacked the final report of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) Wednesday in a scathing letter to Congress. The governors say that if accepted, the recommendations would have the potential to reduce state and local tax revenues...

America Online surged ahead of Amazon.com in online transaction volume for the month of March, according to the NextCard eCommerce Index, a monthly listing of online merchants with the greatest number of transactions by NextCard customers.

E*Trade Group, Inc. reported quarterly results this week that far exceeded Wall Street estimates in an atmosphere where revenues -- not profits -- still rule.

As widespread consolidation prepares to sweep the e-commerce landscape, brick-and-mortar beauty queen Estee Lauder announced Wednesday that it has acquired struggling cosmetics e-tailer Gloss.com.