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America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that its AOL Germany service has surpassed one million members, making it the first AOL service outside of the United States to break the mark.

A CBS MarketWatch (Nasdaq: MKTW) poll shows that about half of all Americans do not have Internet access, and most of those who are not online could not care less about the Web.

Spot Systems, Inc., a foreign exchange and international banking solutions provider, and Magnet Communications, Inc., a Web-based cash management, business banking, and e-commerce solutions provider, have teamed up to bring Internet-based foreign exchange capability to business desktops.

In what is believed to be the largest e-commerce transaction in history, digital imaging company Interactive Picture Corporation (Nasdaq: IPIX) and Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation announced today that they have sold the first corporate jet over the Internet.

As it prepares for its third public meeting on electronic commerce and Internet taxes, the Advisory Commission On Electronic Commerce is again asking the public for suggestions on how to make state and local tax collectors happy without stifling the Internet's growth.

Web-based movie superstore Reel.com (Nasdaq: HLYW) announced the launch of its Holiday Store today, offering gift recommendations as well as gift packages, box sets, low-price movies and live chats with Reel.com representatives.

Earlier this week, an interactive TV service began offering its UK customers e-commerce services ranging from shopping to banking via their TVs.

Shares of direct marketing company FreeShop.com (Nasdaq: FSHP), which promotes products and services with samples, free trial offers and coupons, climbed nearly 11.5 percent on Wednesday, gaining 1-3/8 to 13-3/8 after the company announced a five-year agreement with eBay.

The innovative but still commercially unknown e-book industry received a boost from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) today when the software giant announced that it will sponsor an e-book literary award with a $100,000 (US$) first prize.

Broadscape.com is attempting to carve a niche in the electronic marketing landscape by offering free 19-inch color monitors to the first 100,000 consumers who request one and agree to watch advertisements on the screen whenever they use the Internet.

According to a research report released yesterday by the Peppers and Rogers Group, Amazon.com and American Airlines have built the largest return customer base on the Internet.

Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) and Sprint PCS, the first carrier to launch nationwide wireless Internet services, announced today that they have formed an alliance that will enable Ameritrade customers to access accounts, place trades and receive stock alerts via Sprint PCS wireless phon...

The Debian GNU distribution of the Linux operating system has taken a step closer to bringing the famous "non-commercial" software to a new commercial arena by garnering backing from industry mainstays VA Linux Systems, O'Reilly Associates and SGI, Inc.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Palm Computing (Nasdaq: COMS) announced today that Nokia will license the Palm Computing Operating System (Palm OS) to run mobile phones that can access the Internet.

In a new report released this week, Hambrecht & Quist (NYSE: HQ) Electronic Brokerage Research Analyst Gregory Smith warns online trading companies that the industry's rapid growth, along with the surge of online retailing as a whole, presents "both windfalls and headaches."