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TurboLinux previews its new high availability clustering Web server this week at the Linux World Conference in San Jose, pushing the viability of high-end open-source solutions for e-commerce.

Birthday wishes came true at the Kirkland, Washington headquarters of Birthday Express.com Tuesday, as the company announced it sold a minority stake to venture capital firms for $13.1 million (US$).

When Red Hat Inc., a seller of Linux software, makes it's debut on Wall Street this week, the world will be watching to see if the much-touted Microsoft-killer passes its biggest test of date: getting investors to pump money into it.

In what it says is the first new form of U.S. postage since the invention of the postage meter 80 years ago, Stamps.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: STMP) announced today that it has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Postal Service to start selling stamps over the Internet.

In two separate deals this week, online music service Tunes.com is reaching out to TV viewers and radio listeners in attempts to build up its customer base. Tunes.com announced a deal Monday with Clear Channel Communications to promote its Web site via Clear Channel's TV, radio and outdoor billboard...

Drawing on its existing relationship with professional services firm KPMG LLP and its strategic alliance mindset, Cisco Systems, Inc.(Nasdaq: CSCO) announced Monday that it has signed a letter of intent to invest $1 billion (US$) in KPMG's Internet services business.

Microworkz.com Corp. announced late last week that it would begin offering free Internet access to all personal computer users in the U.S. beginning October 31, 1999.

As it prepares to meet in New York on September 14 and 15, the Advisory Commission On Electronic Commerce plans to get public input on the issues of taxation in cyberspace. The group's Work Plan subcommittee, meeting Friday afternoon to develop a list of tax-related issues to explore, agreed to revi...

Here we go again. On Friday, leading auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) suffered another embarrassing outage that will be costly in more ways than one. eBay's site was down for about 14 hours on Friday, beginning at 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time. In June, eBay also suffered a major outage. That 22-hour outag...

Online grocer Webvan Group Inc., announced Friday that it has filed for a $345 million initial stock sale to raise money to build and equip its planned brick-and-mortar distribution centers.

WebTrends Corp. (Nasdaq: WEBT) recently announced that its Security Analyzer product has been updated, enabling it to run security vulnerability tests to address a significant Microsoft Office security hole discovered last month.

Network Solutions Inc. and the U.S. Department of Commerce agreed to extend the test phase of their shared domain name registration project until September 10th. They will also allow more registrars to begin registering domain names, once they are accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...

NexTag.com Inc. launched an online buying service today, where brand-name sellers compete for buyers. This is a switch from the popular e-commerce model where buyers bid against each other for products.

Executives at HomeStore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) are probably shaking their head in agreement with Charles Dickens' famous "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," opening to "A Tale of Two Cities." Friday, the day after the company saw its share price soar as much as 36 percent in its initi...

The era of after-hours stock trading is nearly upon us, and online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC) is aiming to capitalize on this growing market. On Thursday, Wit Capital announced a deal that will make it a founding partner and the first company to provide information for America Online...