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High-speed Internet provider US West (NYSE: USW) announced an agreement today with digital music retailer MCY Music World to deliver encrypted, streamed or digitally downloadable music and live concert broadcasts over the Internet.

A new report by investment banker Schroders shows that increased e-commerce competition and efficient Internet business models will push UK consumer prices down by 0.2 percent a year for the next three years.

VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) announced today that it has been selected by Web-based applications provider NetLedger to supply rackmount Linux servers and integration management services for the NetLedger infrastructure.

London-based online travel agent ebookers.com (Nasdaq: EBKR) has acquired Norwegian discount travel agency Geotours AS in a deal valued at approximately $1 million (US$).

Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS), which saw the number of shoppers on its network increase 450 percent during the 1999 holiday season, has announced that is taking a 14 percent stake in Internet Commerce Services Corp. (iCOMS) and is forming a strategic partnership to build both companies' e-commerce busi...

Now that 2000 has arrived -- and we are all still in one piece -- I would like to suggest several New Year's resolutions for all startup and established e-commerce companies: Dispense with the fluff, jargon and cliches.

With the new year upon us, America Online (NYSE: AOL) is claiming that its more than 20 million members rang up $2.5 billion (US$) in sales this holiday season, a total that more than doubles last year's figures.

Online shopping reached its peak during the week of December 6th through 12th, according to a Goldman Sachs / PC Data Online survey that was released today. Spending then fell from $1.25 billion (US$) to $495 million during Christmas week (December 20 - 26), as online visitors turned to greeting car...

Despite massive advertising campaigns undertaken by pure-play e-tailers during the holiday season, online shoppers gravitated toward brick-and-click sites, according to the latest figures from Media Metrix.

If you have ever received a desperate call from someone who needs you to wire money right away, you know how inconvenient it can be. Or if your son calls from college and needs tuition money transferred to his account, the necessary trip to the bank can be quite an interruption.

Just weeks after forming an alliance with America Online, retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores unveiled its revamped Web site on the first day of the new year.

It now appears inevitable that regulation is coming to e-commerce.

The deafening roar of silence in e-commerce may soon give way to an explosion of sound, as an Internet telephony revolution grows more likely every day.

According to IDC senior vice president Frank Gens, 2000 will see dot-coms looking for brick-and-mortar presences, free services and software abounding, and profits finally becoming important to Internet companies.

Earlier this week, I wrote a column about the boycott of Amazon.com that has been called for by Richard Stallman, an early developer of the Linux operating system.