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Comergent Technologies, a provider of sell-side business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce software, announced a deal with Commerce One on Monday in which suppliers and their channel partners will have the opportunity to use Comergent's distributed e-commerce system to connect with buyers via Commerce...

It is not likely that the founders of the Internet ever imagined all their hard work would lead to an online bidding war for bullet casings from the set of "Mission Impossible 2." However, thanks to a live TV and Internet auction being put on by cable channel American Movie Classics (AMC) and Ib...

Brick-and-click retailer Office Depot announced Monday that is purchasing technology products vendor 4Sure.com and the businesses of its two online outlets, Computers4Sure.com and Solutions4Sure.com, for an undisclosed amount. Delray Beach, Florida-based Office Depot, which has taken a number of ...

Online grocer Webvan said Monday it has ceased operations in all its markets and will file for bankruptcy protection. Webvan, which has been exiting markets and selling assets in an attempt to stay afloat, had previously said it had enough cash to survive through the end of the year, but would n...

Travelocity announced Monday that it has acquired WhereTo, an Australian provider of online travel systems. Travelocity plans to integrate WhereTo's technology, which includes engines that facilitate the booking of fares, into its own site. According to Travelocity, the integration will allow th...

Luxury gift e-tailer Ashford.com said Monday it has struck a partnership with eBay that will enable it to sell leftover and closeout merchandise on the auction site. Ashford, which now specializes in jewelry, watches and other luxury items for the corporate gift and rewards program markets, will...

Someday, in the afterlife, Napoleon Bonaparte, Douglas MacArthur and other military legends will gather around chief executive officer Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and congratulate Bezos on his battlefield tactics. For e-commerce has never known a more cunning general. Actually, to call Amazon's la...

A controversial free shipping offer that generated significant customer backlash has been pulled by Amazon.com after two weeks. The offer, which promised visitors free shipping when they bought two or more items, in any combination, from the e-tailer's book, music, DVD or video stores, was part o...

Whether the term "pure-play" is destined to disappear from the e-commerce lexicon altogether is up for debate, but when it comes to banking, consumers have made themselves clear. Given that banking online with their regular bank has not exactly dazzled consumers, the outlook for pure-play banks...

The self-proclaimed "Saint of E-Commerce," a 19-year-old Welsh teenage hacker named Raphael Gray, was sentenced Friday in a Wales court to three years of psychiatric and community service rehabilitation for posting the hacked credit card details of thousands of people to the Web, according to rep...

Online travel company Expedia.com was slapped Thursday with another in what has become a series of class action lawsuits against the company alleging violations of federal securities laws. The latest complaint contends that Expedia, its president and chief executive officer Richard N. Barton, ch...

Online grocer Webvan will hold its third asset auction early next month, selling off US$30 million worth of equipment used to service the Altanta, Georgia market it departed earlier this year. The auction, scheduled for August 7th and 8th, is the latest bid by Foster City, California-based Webv...

Amazon.com expanded its reach into brick-and-mortar stores overseas with its announcement Wednesday that its British arm, Amazon.co.uk, has teamed up with European mobile phone provider Carphone Warehouse to offer customers pre-paid phones online. According to Carphone Warehouse, the deal is th...

It was only a matter of time. One of the first questions posed by analysts during a conference call to discuss the takeover of HotJobs by Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide was the antitrust question. The answer came swiftly and without qualification: TMP expects its takeover to sail thro...

Defunct e-tailer eToys became the latest company that will have to face off against shareholders in court, as investors filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the former online toy seller's initial public offering (IPO) prospectus was "materially false and misleading." Specifically, the suit...