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Ticketmaster Online - CitySearch (Nasdaq: TMCS) announced on Friday a new service called "CitySearch Commerce," that enables small and medium-sized businesses to conduct electronic commerce. The new service augments CitySearch's existing Web site development offerings for small businesses. Similar t...

Catalog company Lands' End (NYSE: LE), which sells apparel and gifts, reported disappointing, though encouraging earnings on Thursday. This is not a contradiction. Overall fourth-quarter earnings fell 38 percent (including charges) to $25.7 million (US$). But the mail-order company's stock climbed m...

The Coca-Cola Co. announced recently it had bought, and will re-develop, a vast stretch of land opposite my kids' small private school in downtown Atlanta. On the next block an Embassy Suites Hotel is going up, and across from there, Turner Broadcasting is renovating its giant CNN Center. In this en...

Microsoft wants the government's help in breaking a vicious monopoly, and the case could set a powerful precedent for electronic commerce.

Many Internet stocks got a boost on Wednesday, thanks to positive comments from Merrill Lynch. You might remember that Merrill had a short-term rating of "reduce" for Amazon.com in late January. On Wednesday, Merrill rated Amazon.com "accumulate" and set a 12-month price target of $150.

E-commerce giants Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) are linking their content and online sales strategies, starting with a new co-branded Web site infrastructure announced on Wednesday. The joint venture will be linked from Dell's and Amazon's checkout pages and, will provid...

Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) announced on Wednesday the completion of its acquisition of Shopping.com (OTC:IBUY), an online retailer of goods and services. Compaq hopes that its ownership of Shopping.com and the AltaVista Internet portal site will usher in a new era of Internet-based sales...

Less than one week after Microsoft made many of its e-commerce plans public, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's No. 2 software company, added some firepower to its e-commerce arsenal.

On March 8, Intel announced it has reached a settlement on anti-trust charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. Before the terms were even public, reports surfaced that Microsoft is discussing a settlement of its problems with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Barry Diller was the headline maker at last week's Jupiter Consumer Online conference in New York. The headline was he won't sweeten his deal to acquire Lycos, whose shareholders will take a 30% interest in a new outfit that includes Diller's Home Shopping Channel. Beneath the headline was a lectu...

Netscape Communications (Nasdaq: NSCP) announced on Tuesday that it will integrate comprehensive support for XML across its portfolio of e-commerce applications. According to the company, support for the XML language is a key ingredient to Netscape's e-commerce strategy. Netscape's implementation of...

E-commerce hosting service iMALL, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMAL) today announced the acquisition of San Francisco based Pure Payments Inc., which provides a critical component for Internet-based credit card processing. Pure Payments offers the electronic payment "gateway" which has been used in iMALL's integrat...

Shares of office-products retailer Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) and leading personal Web-hosting service Geocities (Nasdaq: GCTY) climbed on Monday after the companies announced a deal that would make Staples the exclusive office-supplies merchant on GeoCities.

Onsale Inc. (Nasdaq:ONSL), a popular Internet retailer, today reported that more than ten million bids have been placed on its atAuction service at www.onsale.com. The ten-millionth bid was placed on Sunday, February 21, approximately two months after reaching the nine-million mark.

The Go2Net (Nasdaq:GNET) network of Web sites and Wireless Dimension recently unveiled a co-branded site, where Go2Net Network users can compare and buy wireless phones and service. The relationship provides a boost for Wireless Dimension, which will gain visibility among Go2Net's base of more than ...