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Microsoft Corp. announced Monday the release of two new products intended to help e-commerce suppliers participate in business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces.

Razorfish (Nasdaq: RAZF) gained 21/32 to 6 7/32 Monday after the Web design and technology consulting firm said it will help Deutsche Bank build a platform for business-to-business (B2B) financial services marketplaces.

Neoforma.com (Nasdaq: NEOF) gained 7/16 to 1 3/4 Monday after the company, which provides e-commerce services to the health care industry, won a contract from Medbuy Corp., the largest medical purchasing organization in Canada.

Click2learn.com (Nasdaq: CLKS) picked up 3/8 to 16 3/4 after W.R. Hambrecht & Co. began coverage of the stock with a buy recommendation. Analyst Trace Urdan expects the stock to reach 27 in a year.

En Pointe Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENPT) rose 2 3/4 to 7 7/8 Monday after receiving a contract from the state of Minnesota.

Three major U.S. corporations said Monday they are teaming with an online realty service to form an Internet business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for real estate transactions.

Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) was up 1 11/32 at 16 13/32 early Monday after the Emeryville, California-based company announced a plan to sell businesses a way to handle customer inquiries over the phone using speech-recognition technology.

Kforce.com (Nasdaq: KFRC) was up 7/32 at 5 early Monday after the Web-based staffing firm said it plans to buy back up to 10 million common shares, or 23.7 percent of the total outstanding. Kforce shares are down from a 52-week high of 18 1/4.

If you're waiting to exhale until the U.S. government swoops in and saves the populace from the troubling Digital Divide problem, you'd better reconsider.

When you go to the polls on Election Day, please remember that a vote for George W. Bush is a vote for closed Internet access.

While European e-tailers are improving customer service, they still have a long road to travel when it comes to order fulfillment, according to a new study released by Andersen Consulting.

Furniture e-tailer Furniture.com announced Monday that it has laid off 76 of its 88 employees and will be discontinuing operations.

Beleaguered name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced Thursday that it is cutting 16 percent of its workforce and that its chief financial officer is departing.

Despite the gloom and doom of the ongoing dot-com shakeout, a new report from eMarketer predicts that U.S. online retail sales will grow from a projected $37 billion (US$) in 2000 to $125.6 billion over the next four years.

America Online (NYSE: AOL) said Thursday it has reached an agreement with General Motors (GM) and Daimler-Chrysler to provide discounted Internet and interactive TV service to the automakers' 300,000 employees.