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One week after NBC merged its Internet properties, Xoom.com and Snap com., into a new company called NBC Internet, it announced Monday that Snap.com has joined forces with Seattle, Washington's RealNetworks, Inc., to form a "multimedia powerhouse."

In a move to expand its position as a provider of e-commerce solutions for small to mid-sized companies, IBM (NYSE: IBM) last week announced a new version of its Net.Commerce for AS/400, helping businesses to quickly gain a secure, efficient online presence.

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is expanding into the online grocery market with an announcement this week that it has taken a "significant minority interest" in HomeGrocer.com.

On the heels of Lycos' strong third quarter financial results, which drove its stock up more than $8 to $120 per share (and rising) in less than a day, the online search engine company announced several new deals designed to keep that momentum going.

A few days after Network Associates, Inc. -- the No. 1 maker of antivirus software -- pronounced the Galadriel virus a low risk, a class action suit was filed against the company in the United States District Court of California on behalf of stockholders.

INTERSHOP Communications (Neuer Markt: ISH), a leading provider of online store software, announced on Thursday a new partnership with Compaq Computer Corporation to deliver cross-platform e-commerce solutions for enterprises and Internet service providers. Under this new deal, INTERSHOP will provid...

Microsoft co-founder and eclectic investor Paul Allen has put his money behind another venture purporting to have the key to a computing revolution. Backed by funds from Allen's Vulcan Ventures Inc., a new Bellevue, Washington company called Mercata, Inc. says its new site is not just another onli...

Hoping to tap into the vast market for online travel booking, Yahoo! and SkyMall announced Friday separate competing sites designed to offer one-stop access to a variety of established Web travel sources. The Yahoo! Travel Specials Center targets travelers seeking last-minute bargains through huge l...

When you're cool, clever and intelligent, things just seem to fall into place so much easier. That's probably how Akamai Technologies employees felt Friday, as round after round of good news rolled through the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters -- like a Waikiki wave.

If the speed and ease of shopping online is not enough incentive for some consumers, ebates.com has a better offer: Cash back. The promotional tool made popular by Discover Card is now being implemented online. Ebates.com lures consumers to its site with the promise of up to 25 percent cash back o...

Not to be out done by IBM, Hewlett-Packard is promising to storm the e-commerce arena girded with a new Internet software code-named "Fremont" that can be downloaded for free -- the same way the Linux operating system is.

In a complementary exchange of announcements aimed at advancing the presence of both companies in the Y2K solutions arena, Microsoft has offered a free 120-day trial of its Systems Management Server (SMS), while Shaman Corp. released information about its Enterprise product's interoperability with S...

Looking ahead after the collapse of its merger with USA Networks, Lycos overflowed with optimism, touting record e-commerce deals, promising more big ones soon and celebrating its new position as the #1 Net portal.

IBM (NYSE: IBM), arguably the king of e-commerce, is best known for its large-scale enterprise e-commerce solutions. However, the company announced on Wednesday, new products and services that enable consumers, entrepreneurs and small businesses to leverage the power of the Internet for e-business. ...

Cisco Systems, Inc. has signaled the worldwide high-tech community that Y2K might not be the menacing profit-killer that many gloom and doomers have been predicting