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Last Thursday, Amazon.com filed suit against barnesandnoble.com in U.S. District Court, alleging that its online book-selling rival illegally copied and implemented a patented shopping feature.

What does it take to elbow your way to the top in the e-tailing wars?

Publicly held telecommunications giant GTE filed a lawsuit against TCI and Comcast yesterday in an attempt to gain access to the two companies' Excite@Home Internet service.

Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET), the online network backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, announced today that it has acquired free Web site building and hosting service FreeYellow.com.

Microsoft Corp. and Japanese cell phone company NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (NTT DoCoMo), are joining forces to offer Japan's 27 million cellular phone customers wireless Internet access.

Interactive Pictures (Nasdaq: IPIX) and bamboo.com (Nasdaq: BAMB), two of the leading providers of interactive pictures for the Internet, announced today that they have agreed to a merger valued at approximately $850 million (US$).

Shopping portal Espanol.com launched its service yesterday, becoming the latest in a long line of Spanish-language Web sites to target the Spanish-speaking market in the United States and Latin America.

Moving to implement its recently announced e-commerce strategy, Web application platform vendor Allaire Corp. (Nasdaq: ALLR) has announced that its cross-platform Web application server has been updated to run on the Linux open-source operating system (OS).

Drkoop.com, Inc., the Internet healthcare network led by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, announced today that a record 14.7 million page views for September has made it the Web's most visited health site.

A U.S. House of Representatives bill to ban cyber-squatting, the use of trademarked names as Internet domain names by people who do not hold the trademarks, has passed the Judiciary Committee and could come up for a vote as early as tomorrow.

Apple Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL) has released its new Mac OS 9 operating system, featuring a search engine that is designed for personalized online shopping.

As low-cost online investment firms such as E*Trade and Ameritrade, Inc. continue to lure investors away from the brick-and-mortar brokerages, many industry observers believe that it is only a matter of time before the traditional pillars of Wall Street become obsolete.

We've seen big news in Internet lawsuits this week. Priceline attacks the 800-pound Microsoft gorilla for using the "name-your-own-price" business model, and Amazon tries to clobber arch-enemy barnesandnoble.com for using the "1-click" easy-to-buy technology.

In a bid to compete with AOL and other industry leaders, Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) has unveiled a 1000-plus merchant shopping portal that it says more closely emulates a real shopping experience.

In an effort to jumpstart its standing among Yahoo! and other leading power players, Internet portal Alta Vista unveiled its revamped look today.