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According to a new report by Forrester Research, many business-to-business Web sites ignore customer goals and fail to meet the basic requirements of a good user experience.

Japanese Internet investor Softbank Corp. announced today that it will continue its aggressive global push by launching a $100 million (US$) fund aimed at the Latin American market.

Study results released yesterday by Andersen Consulting show that 96 percent of 1999 holiday Internet buyers anticipate using the Web for holiday shopping this year, and 72 percent intend to use the Internet for day-to-day shopping in 2000.

Computer book and operating system publisher Macmillan USA announced Monday that it has tapped RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS) to provide security software for a Web server that will be included in upcoming Linux product releases.

Yesterday, when we first heard the announcement about the pending merger between America Online and Time Warner, it was a stunner.

After coming under heavy scrutiny for an alleged software failure that allowed an unidentified hacker to purloin and publish confidential credit card information on the Internet, CyberCash has issued a terse statement denying that its product contributed in any way to the security breach.

While women now comprise 49 percent of online users, they still lag behind men in online shopping, according to the latest American Internet User Survey published by customer relationship management firm Cyber Dialogue.

Name-your-price pioneer priceline.com and NextCard announced yesterday that they will begin offering consumers a customized, name-your-own-terms credit card in the second quarter of this year.

In what some observers are labeling the deal of the century, media giant Time Warner and number one online service provider America Online announced a stock-for-stock merger today that is expected to be valued at $350 billion (US$).

Number one Internet service provider America Online and U.S. automaker General Motors have announced a joint venture that will help consumers shop and service their new cars via the Internet.

American drugstore giant CVS (NYSE: CVS) and health information Web site Healtheon/WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) announced today that they have forged a five-year, exclusive alliance.

This past Friday, I suggested that Microsoft had "missed the boat" because it was planning to sell paperless books through its Microsoft Reader, rather than downloadable audio books like those being touted by Wayne, New Jersey-based Audible.

In an effort to jumpstart consumer acceptance of its recently released Linux distribution, Corel Corp. (Nasdaq: CORL) has tapped the services of Web-enabling solutions provider GraphOn Corp. (Nasdaq: GOJO).

E-commerce security solutions provider and research firm nCipher is alerting the online community to a potential threat that the company believes could leave e-commerce operations vulnerable to the theft of private cryptographic keys from a server.

At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, portable digital music players will be one of the top attractions.