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Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMCS) has agreed to acquire Ticketmaster Corp. in a US$650 million deal that will join their online and brick-and-mortar ticketing and reservations businesses, the companies said Tuesday. As part of the transaction, Ticketmaster Online will issue 52 mil...

Openwave Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) plunged in its first day of trading, dropping 8 1/16 to 79 11/16 amid a general slide in technology issues. The drop came despite reports of rosy financial projections from company officials. Openwave, which was formed by the merger of Phone.com and Software.c...

In a move designed to focus its dwindling cash resources on the United States, Buy.com said Monday it has ceased operations in Australia. Buy.com, which ranks as the second-largest e-tailer behind Amazon.com in the U.S., said it will fulfill all orders made before the site is shut down. The Aliso ...

Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISLD) was one of the Nasdaq's few technology winners Monday, rising 1 7/32 to 7 13/16 following news of an alliance with Chinese telecommunications company Jitong Communications, Inc. San Francisco, California-based Digital Island, which provides Internet content, net...

E-tail sales rose slightly in October, fueled by big increases in sales of toys, consumer electronics and computers, according to a monthly survey released Monday by the National Retail Federation and Forrester Research. The figures, along with the results of a weekly tally by Goldman Sachs &...

EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) improved 1 13/64 to 8 11/32 Monday after the Internet service provider (ISP) announced an agreement with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to offer broadband services over the media giant's cable systems. Atlanta, Georgia-based EarthLink said its high-speed Internet services will be...

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) plunged 4 1/16 to 24 3/4 Monday after the e-business software giant announced executive vice president Gary Bloom was leaving to head Veritas Software. Oracle chairman and chief executive officer Larry Ellison said Bloom's move to Veritas would foster relations between t...

With an eye toward staving off a repeat of the holiday fulfillment woes that left thousands of online shoppers without gifts last Christmas morning, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned e-tailers against making promises they cannot keep. The agency sent letters to over 100 e-tailers ...

In some ways, the Internet got a lot more elbow room last week when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) carved out seven new domain suffixes to go with dot-com (.com).

Autoweb.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWEB) was down 1/64 at 33/64 early Monday, following the company's announcement that it plans to cut jobs and restructure operations. The Santa Clara, California-based online auto company said it will reduce its workforce by about 25 percent as it moves to concentrate on...

A French court ruled Monday that Web powerhouse Yahoo! has 90 days to block French residents from viewing auctions of Nazi memorabilia at its U.S.-based auctions site, or face fines of US$13,000 per day for each day it exceeds the deadline.

@Plan, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLN) was up 1 1/2 at 6 13/16 early Monday after DoubleClick, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK) changed the terms of its planned acquisition of the company. New York-based DoubleClick will now pay shareholders of @Plan, a Stamford, Connecticut-based online advertising research firm, US$8 in...

Internet bellwether eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) rolled out a program Monday that will allow other firms to create their own applications based on the online auctioneer's technology. The program, known as the eBay Application Program Interface (API), will initially be available to a limited number of the com...

Recent acquisitions produced some shuffling in Media Metrix's Top 50 most visited Web sites for October, released Friday. Tenth-ranked Infospace Impressions, which recently acquired Go2Net, took the biggest leap with a visitor increase from the previous month of 145 percent.

Broadbase Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBSW) fell in early trading Friday, losing 2 5/16 to 11 11/16 after the company said the closing next month of a planned acquisition will result in a bigger-than-expected loss for the fourth quarter. Broadbase also said it expects a fourth-quarter loss of 15 to 17 ...