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Yesterday, both U.S. Democratic and Republican Senators expressed serious reservations about the planned merger between media giants America Online, Inc. and Time Warner, Inc.

Arthur Andersen's Real Estate and Hospitality Services Group and real estate consulting firm the Rosen Consulting Group released a joint study Friday that concluded that e-commerce is having a substantial impact on the commercial real estate industry.

On Thursday, Wal-Mart, Inc. tapped former Banana Republic CEO Jeanne P. Jackson to head its newly independent Walmart.com Web site, prompting some industry analysts to believe that the mammoth retailer will finally hit its online stride.

Microsoft is making the move from providing a Web site marketing and information resource on its bCentral small business site to allowing direct trading among its members.

Online travel agency and Microsoft spin-off Expedia.com reported Wednesday that it will record $4 to $6 million (US$) in third quarter losses to cover fraudulent credit card purchases made on its Web site.

Earlier this week, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush hinted that he would not have allowed the U.S. to take antitrust action against the Microsoft empire.

As the issue of Internet security drives toward a critical mass in 2000, yet another e-commerce site has been victimized by a hacker attack.

Three of the United States' largest agriculture companies, Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, Cargill and DuPont Corp., have announced the formation of a new Internet marketplace for farm retailers, cooperatives and manufacturers.

According to published reports, controversial Internet advertising firm DoubleClick, Inc. has been receiving leaked personal financial information from Intuit Corp.'s Quicken Web site.

According to a new Internet retail index established by the National Retail Federation (NRF), Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) and Greenfield Online, Internet spending by North American consumers reached $2.8 billion (US$) in January.

eBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) announced Wednesday that they have partnered to expand online payment processing company Billpoint, thereby enabling eBay's 10 million users to make payments to one another by credit card. Until now, most buyers at eBay's auction site were forced...

Name-your-price pioneer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced Tuesday that it is bringing its service to consumers in Australia and New Zealand by forming a new company Down Under.

Warner Bros. has introduced a new fashion-oriented Web site, The Fashion Maven, which supposedly allows consumers to purchase articles of clothing online that were recently worn by one of the entertainment giant's television or movie characters.

A six-year subscriber of America Online (NYSE: AOL) has won $1 million (US$) in a marketing giveaway by the Virginia-based powerhouse and credit card giant Visa U.S.A.

This week, a long-overdue precedent was set when the operator of a sports gambling Web site was convicted in the first case of its kind to go to trial.