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According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., AOL and Yahoo! have been slow to cash in on instant messaging as a corporate collaboration tool.

Name-your-price pioneer priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it will add long distance telephone calls to its offerings by the beginning of next year and will eventually offer a name-your-price business-to-business long distance service.

Rainbow Technologies (Nasdaq: RNBO), a provider of security systems for the Internet and e-commerce, announced today that it has forged a joint venture with Goldensoft Co. Ltd of Beijing to create a channel for domestic and international companies to market software in China while minimizing the ris...

OpenAuto.com announced the launch today of an online marketplace that allows car buyers to use the anonymity of the Internet to research and price cars and strengthen their bargaining position.

Agillion, Inc., a business services company that helps small and mid-sized businesses build and manage personalized customer relationships online, announced today that it has closed a $40 million (US$) first round of funding led by such notable investors as Cisco Systems, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanl...

E-commerce software and solutions company Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) announced today that it has agreed to acquire privately held CommerceBid.com, which develops business-to-business auction and reverse auction solutions.

Applix, Inc., (Nasdaq: APLX) a solutions provider for the UNIX and Linux markets, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with Walnut Creek CDROM to bring its office suite product and development resource tool to users of the FreeBSD (Free Berkeley System Distribution) operating system.

According to a new study by Forrester Research, Inc., a shift in advertising dollars to the Internet will create a $27 billion (US$) shortfall in traditional media spending by 2004.

Federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released late Friday afternoon a much-anticipated decision in which Microsoft was determined to be operating as a monopoly. This ruling is expected to have a tremendous impact on the future of Microsoft, as well as on the direction of the global computer softwar...

The U.S. Postal Service, once considered a potential "victim" of the Internet's speed and convenience, has announced a new system to help consumers hurdle one of the last barriers to online shopping -- merchandise returns.

With Halloween behind us, holiday shopping is about to break. Marketing managers at e-tailers around the world are wringing their hands and watching their click-throughs.

Running ads on Web sites used to be for big companies with big advertising budgets. Now that it's free, it's anybody's game.

According to a new study by investment firm U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, the frenetic pace of online trading is slowing despite the fact that more people are participating.

Less than a week after launching a localized Tripod online community site in Japan, Internet network Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) announced that it has raised $32 million (US$) from a major Japanese media company.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., luxury brick-and-mortar retailers such as Neiman Marcus are approaching e-commerce with a bargain basement mentality.