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According to the November 22nd issue of PRWeek, U.S. presidential candidate Bill Bradley has combined e-commerce technology, an increasingly-popular message and the reach of the Internet to raise the most cyber dollars for the 2000 presidential campaign.

When the federal judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial appointed Chief Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois, to mediate talks aimed at resolving the case, many experts were caught by surprise.

Internet banking services provider Digital Insight (Nasdaq: DGIN) announced yesterday that it is purchasing rival nFront (Nasdaq: NFNT) in a stock-for-stock exchange.

According to Goldman Sachs and PC Data Online, the 1999 holiday shopping season kicked off the week of November 12-16 with a 17 percent spike in online gift buying. The uptick bucked an overall drop in Internet spending for that week.

America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it has bulked up its already-popular personal finance channel by signing a five-year agreement with Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) to offer an online service for household billing.

Discount brokerage TD Waterhouse (NYSE: TWE) announced Monday that it has continued its overseas expansion by launching an online service for the UK market.

America Online and United Artists Theatre Circuit announced an agreement today that will make expanded movie information and ticket sales available on all AOL brands, including AOL.COM, Netscape, CompuServe, ICQ, Digital City and Spinner.

Online bookseller Alibris has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $250,000 (US$) fine in order to retire federal charges that it intercepted Amazon.com internal e-mails and possessed unauthorized password files.

Internet portal Lycos, Inc. announced today that it will spend $270 million (US$) in stock to acquire Boston, Massachusetts-based gaming site Gamesville.com.

The results of separate inquiries by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York State Attorney General are warning online trading firms to clean up their acts or risk regulatory crackdowns.

America Online and interactive entertainment software company Electronic Arts announced a five-year strategic alliance today to create and deliver online games and interactive entertainment content for all AOL properties.

A group of lawyers is reportedly planning to file a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft in a California court today, potentially opening the floodgates to financial damages far costlier than any fine levied by the U.S. government.

Many e-business owners are attempting to ride the limitless wave of the Internet overseas, a prospect that can be rife with dangerous twists and turns. Before a business can get up and running in another country, there are a number of issues that must be considered:

In yet another indication that the B2B Internet industry is overtaking the retail e-commerce sector, leading Internet network CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) announced today that it is starting a B2B venture fund that is aiming to reach $1 billion (US$) in capital.

Last week, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that local telephone companies would be required to share their wires with rival data providers, the telephone company CEOs let out a collective wail.