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In an effort to co-market the top two holiday season gift items, clothing giant Gap, Inc. and online toy seller eToys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETYS) are launching a holiday season promotional campaign.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in iUniverse.com, a company which bills itself as the largest Internet publishing portal.

TicketMaster Online-CitySearch announced Monday that it has successfully folded 43 Microsoft SideWalk City sites into its network and will introduce its fully-integrated 77-city CitySearch sites this week.

Toys "R" Us, Inc. announced yesterday that it has signed a two-year agreement with America Online that will give it anchor placement in the Toys department of the Kids, Toys and Babies category in the new Shop@AOL.

IBM and Internet service provider Conxion Corporation announced today that 13 dot-com companies have joined the first class of its joint incubator program scheduled for launch on November 16th.

As it looks to promote trusted international e-commerce, Credit Bancorp Ltd. partner CBL WorldKey LLC has launched a new open-standard public key infrastructure (PKI)-based security service that is designed to guarantee a variety of online transactions.

Online grocer HomeGrocer.com announced today that it has received an additional $100 million (US$) in financing and will dramatically expand its service to an estimated 20 markets across the United States.

E-Stamp Corp. and Intuit, Inc. announced today that they have joined forces to provide Internet postage to the more than two million small businesses that use Intuit's accounting software.

European Commission ministers met in Belgium Friday in an attempt to agree upon a regulatory framework for electronic commerce from country to country.

It is being reported that major PC makers are responding to Microsoft's anti-trust troubles by busily working behind the scenes to develop a new line of Windows-less models.

Online auction site eBay is reportedly taking part in a $22 million (US$) backing of business surplus trader TradeOut.com.

Autodesk, Inc., a maker of software for architects, is targeting the B2B construction industry with the launch of its new Web site.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. traditional financial services that fail to reinvent themselves quickly will not survive in a marketplace driven by Net-powered consumers.

In a vote of 423 to 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill late last week to prevent the imposition of sales taxes on global Internet sales.

As we wait for U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to announce his factual findings in the Microsoft antitrust case, it seems almost peculiar that Microsoft could be viewed as a monopoly. The whole concept of antitrust laws applying to Internet companies seems almost silly now that a year ha...