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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."

Priceline.com, the name-your-price seller of airline tickets and other products, has added mortgage and new car buying services to its Web site.

According to a Frost & Sullivan research report, Internet gambling continues to expand as the U.S. government sits on the sidelines.

IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner warned an international audience at a meeting of the United Nations-sponsored Telecom '99 that "any customer, or nation, that gets trapped by a closed architecture runs the very real risk of being left behind."

Since the advent of online trading and e-commerce, message boards and chat rooms have become havens for those who want to take shots at or float rumors about different companies and their top management.

Separate industry-wide initiatives led by Sun Microsystems and industry powerhouses Compaq Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: CPQ), Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HWP), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are seeking to secure online business by collectively creating an industry standar...

Online postage company Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) announced today that it has formed a marketing and distribution alliance with IBM. The Stamps.com service will now be delivered to the more than one million members of the IBM Owner Privileges Program, which caters to owners of IBM Aptiva PC and Think...

Phone.com (Nasdaq: PHCM), a leading maker of Internet-browsing software for wireless phones, announced yesterday at the Telecom '99 show in Geneva, Switzerland that it has signed an agreement to acquire Apion Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ireland for $239 million (US$) in stock.

Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a global alliance today that places the Excite portal at the fingertips of users of IBM's Aptiva line of personal computers.

Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) added another member to its family of real estate-related sites today by announcing an agreement to buy Homefair.com from Central Newspapers (NYSE: ECP) for $85 million (US$).

Internet guru Bill Gross, whose e-commerce successes include eToys, Inc. and GoTo.com, has launched iExchange.com, a site where individuals can sell their stock tips to the public.