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Ricardo.de, a small challenger for Germany's online auction business, has parlayed a live auctioneer and other services into a formidable 400,000 person-strong subscriber base.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based USABancShares.com (NASDAQ: USAB) announced Wednesday that it will launch a private banking site to specialize in serving the financial needs of the business-to-business Internet community.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Linux hysteria will give way to pragmatism in the new year.

Network Associates (Nasdaq: NETA) has announced that it will offer Y2K-related computer virus information and support to the CyberAssurance National Information Center effort that is being coordinated by the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion Information Coordination Center (ICC).

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

According to a recent survey of 9,800 online shoppers by BizRate.com, almost 90 percent of respondents consider an e-tailer's return policy to be the determining factor in whether or not they will continue to do business with the merchant.

The week before Christmas, U.S. talk radio shows and newspapers were buzzing with horror stories about dot-coms that were not going to be able to fulfill orders in time for the Christmas holiday.

Despite the horror stories of canceled orders and late deliveries, most online merchants have every right to feel proud about how they performed this holiday season.

Further fueling speculation that Net stocks and rushed IPOs have set e-commerce up for a retrograde period, Value America (Nasdaq: VUSA) is cutting its workforce nearly in half and will reduce its product offerings to a handful of categories that are proven sellers on the Internet.

Online music provider MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced today that it will expand its services by acquiring privately held online event planning Web site seeUthere.com in a stock deal valued at approximately $150 million (US$).

Pervasive Software (Nasdaq: PVSW), a provider of e-commerce application development solutions, has released a version of its Tango 2000 Application Server for Linux.

Last week, as the Amazon.com holiday season symphony neared its crescendo, someone sounded a sour note.

According to a new study by InsightExpress, the online arm of market research giant NFO Worldwide, online shoppers may have spent as much as 33 percent of their holiday shopping budgets online.

RealNetworks, a leading maker of software for playing video and audio online, is suing startup Streambox for an alleged violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

With a nod toward the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced plans to use an arbitration panel to resolve disputes over domain name ownership before cases reach the courts.