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High-speed Internet provider Excite@Home announced today that it will pump another $40 million (US $) into Tickets.com Inc. -- raising its stake in the online ticket seller to $55 million.

Web portal and broadband access company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) issued a statement Tuesday saying that it had filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Excite@Home asked the court to overturn a Portland, Oregon court decision that mandates all Internet service providers be gi...

Toys 'R' Us (NYSE: TOY) insists the refurbishing of its online store is on track, but that project will no longer get help from well known venture capitalist Benchmark Capital Inc. Along with announcing its second quarter earnings results Monday, the toy store chain confirmed it has terminated its p...

Confirming months of rumors that Nielsen Media Research was on the auction blocks, the Dutch publishing company VNU announced Monday that it would pay $2.5 billion (US$) in cash for the media audience tracking service.

Q What kinds of products or services do you sell at NECX Direct? A We're an online reseller of computer products. We really cover the spectrum of technology products from servers, desktops and notebooks, all the way down to cables, diskettes and paper for your Laser printer. All the products tha...

The online audio business continues to be a ripe field for mergers, joint ventures and strategic investments, judging by announcements from two audio download companies Monday. EMusic.com (Nasdaq: EMUS) struck a distribution deal with America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL), while AudioSoft International li...

InfoSpace.com announced today that it has signed an agreement to purchase INEX Corporation, a Toronto, Canada-based company that provides solutions for merchants to build, manage and promote online stores. This deal will allow InfoSpace.com to offer its affiliates tools to build e-commerce businesse...

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) senior vice president Sean Maloney, in a keynote address at LinuxWorld in San Jose, demonstrated how Intel's advanced Merced processor -- otherwise known as the IA-64 -- would work running on Linux in order to advance cost-effective and powerful solutions available to comp...

AmericanGreetings.com Inc., an online card company that enables people to send birthday and thank you cards via the Internet, announced Friday that it has filed for a $60 million (US$) initial stock sale.

Today, two travel-related sites have announced the launch of a new Web site, and a content agreement, with a major portal.

LookSmart Ltd., a Web directory and search tool, and iEscrow Inc., a provider of online escrow services, announced today that they have teamed up to distribute a new tool that will make it easier for webmasters and smaller sites to accept transactions online. The Buy It! Button, recently developed b...

Antagonistic forces could be listening in on your network and intercepting sensitive personal communications, according to a security advisory issued recently by independent online security firm and think tank L0pht Heavy Industries.

A new Web site launching Monday hopes to become the online version of the old "wanted to buy" classified ads. IWant.com is a site that acts as a posting place for buyers to list descriptions of items they are seeking. The site is designed to eliminate the shopper's need to search multiple sites for ...

The day after Red Hat Inc. stock more than tripled on its initial Wall Street debut last week, Canadian software developer Corel Corp. said it expects its Linux revenue to skyrocket next year.

Magic Software Enterprises (Nasdaq: MGIC) announced that it has become a player in the field of Linux-based e-commerce solutions, debuting its eMerchant product for the increasingly popular open-source operating system (OS) at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose last week.