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The online community Web site eCircles.com announced Monday that it received an additional $18 million (US$) in private equity financing, topping off a first round financing of $6 million it received back in March.

The angels are coming to America Online (Nasdaq: AOL). The Victoria's Secret Angels, that is.

Independent online security firm and think tank L0pht Heavy Industries has released an advanced intrusion detection program designed to augment computer network integrity and protect systems against attacks from hackers.

B2B Explorer, a new search engine aimed at business users, was launched Monday.

One thing Wall Street hates is uncertainty. So last week, when companies such as IBM and Microsoft put a damper on their spectacular earnings -- by making statements that they couldn't predict what impact Y2K would have on the rest of the year's earnings -- the stock market nose-dived.

America Online announced today the rollout of a new 17 category-specific shopping platform -- the result of years of analyzing its members online shopping behavior.

Freeserve, the U.K.'s top Internet-service provider, is poised to make its debut on Wall Street today in an attempt to raise money that could be used to thwart attempts by America Online to become the dominant online player in Great Britain.

The Internet's fourth-largest online brokerage attracted $195 million (US$) in financing Wednesday, but it was who declined to participate in the financing that carried headlines Friday.

Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA) issued a barrage of Linux-related announcements from its CA World 1999 conference in New Orleans this week, including the release of the MasterIT e-commerce/Web Management solution.

As House Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee members skeptically questioned the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) approach to privatizing domain name registration Thursday, nearly all of the panelists invited to comment said they back ICANN's activities.

The online auction space became significantly more crowded on Thursday when direct e-commerce company Xoom.com (Nasdaq:XMCM) launched a person-to-person auction service.

In announcing that it will team up with a leading directory of heavy equipment for sale, Online auction house uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) is hoping to do for turbines and lathes what eBay did for Beanie Babies and blue porcelain jugs.

iCorps Technologies launched an array of Linux-related services this week. The services are aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses and will provide applications development, consulting, installation and support.

House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley's (R-Virginia.) 1999 track record for moving e-commerce friendly bills has two new additions. The committee's Finance and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee passed Bliley's electronic signature and information access acts on Wednesday.

One could forgive the judges of AdWeek IQ's Interactive Marketing Award for being blinded by the glossy luminescence of Victoria's Secret's supermodels. Many American males, after all, have lost their power of deductive reasoning after looking at the lingerie company's skimpy offerings.