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E-businesses, Internet Service Providers and technology firms are increasingly setting their collective sights on the fastest-growing minority population in the United States: Hispanics Naturally, Spanish-speaking populations are already the target of forward-moving Internet organizations in Latin America. However, many of these same companies have...

Online computer e-tailer egghead.com announced today that its shareholders have approved a $400 million (US$) merger with auction and surplus site Onsale, Inc The merger comes as companies such as Buy.com, Outpost.com and Amazon.com are aggressively expanding their offerings and encroaching upon the two companies' market share. Under the circumstan...

In an effort to eliminate confusion over its strategic path, Excite@Home Corp. will establish a tracking stock for its Internet media assets The action will separate the Redwood City, California-based company's Internet portal assets from its subscription service, which offers high-speed Internet access over cable-TV systems. A separate board of di...

Last week, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that local telephone companies would be required to share their wires with rival data providers, the telephone company CEOs let out a collective wail "There is no need for corporate welfare that gives one sector of a very competitive industry an unnecessary advantage," said Bruce Pos...

In yet another indication that the B2B Internet industry is overtaking the retail e-commerce sector, leading Internet network CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) announced today that it is starting a B2B venture fund that is aiming to reach $1 billion (US$) in capital The Andover, Massachusetts-based company -- which is widely recognized as one of the premier Inte...

Many e-business owners are attempting to ride the limitless wave of the Internet overseas, a prospect that can be rife with dangerous twists and turns. Before a business can get up and running in another country, there are a number of issues that must be considered: Internet users in some countries are more responsive to a national Web site than an...

A group of lawyers is reportedly planning to file a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft in a California court today, potentially opening the floodgates to financial damages far costlier than any fine levied by the U.S. government According to reports, three experienced class-action lawyers intend to file the suit in California Superior Court in ...

America Online and interactive entertainment software company Electronic Arts announced a five-year strategic alliance today to create and deliver online games and interactive entertainment content for all AOL properties Under the terms of the agreement, Electronic Arts will guarantee AOL $81 million (US$) and be exclusively responsible for content...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. all but conceded defeat in its much-publicized instant messaging battle with America Online by announcing that it will no longer attempt to make its IM software communicate with AOL's Since July, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant has been trying to penetrate the lucrative instant messaging market by lin...

Online sales resource SalesMountain.com has forged a joint agreement with Val-Pak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. to add 30,000 new coupon and sales listings to its online consumer discount guide Val-Pak, a division of Cox Enterprises' Cox Target Media company, lays claim to the world's largest database of local coupons, mailing out more than 13 bil...

As the Linux Business Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada drew to a close, Cybernet Systems Corp. announced that it has garnered distribution support for its NETMAX open-source servers series from Ingram Micro, Frank Kasper & Associates and Navarre Corporation The deals, along with several retail agreements, will help to push the "easy-to-use Linux server so...

After being pushed to the legal brink by online search engine and marketplace GoTo.com, The Walt Disney Co. was granted an emergency stay on an injunction yesterday that would have forced the company to discontinue the use of its Go Network logo The stay, issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, came shortly after Infoseek shareholders voted t...

Magazine publisher Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. announced today that the Webcast of its Tuesday night lingerie fashion show, known as "Playboy's Club Lingerie," attracted more than 565,000 visits This volume might seem small compared to the 1.5 million visits that Victoria's Secret attracted for its Webcast fashion show in February, but ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave Internet surfers a shot in the arm yesterday by voting to require major local phone companies to share their lines with data carriers The move is designed to hasten the spread of high-speed Internet access into the consumer market by making access to Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) more affordabl...

Internet portal Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Inflightonline.com to provide Internet services to airline passengers Inflightonline.com has been developing a system to offer complete Internet services to airline passengers with laptop computers for the last two years. Company president Dan Dailey tol...

Tradition met technology today as Amazon.com and Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. launched sothebys.amazon.com, a new online auction site that is jointly backed by the international art auctioneer and the top U.S. e-tailer This move comes only five months after Amazon pumped about $45 million (US$) into Sotheby's through stock purchases. The London-based a...

If the likes of Amazon and eBay are destined to forever dominate e-commerce, why are the biggest names in the business working so hard to boost fledgling startup companies? Take Steve Case, CEO of America Online, for example. As far back as five years ago -- ancient history in cyber-years -- AOL offered business incubation services to entrepreneurs...

PC manufacturer Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) and UK telecommunications company Cable & Wireless (NYSE: CWP) announced today that they will join forces in a five-year, $500 million (US$) agreement to provide Internet business services for small and medium-sized businesses The two companies said that they will sell Internet services and shared applications to ...

In a move that comes as no surprise, Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) shareholders voted Wednesday to complete a merger with Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq: SEEK) and spin its Internet assets off into a separately traded company to be called Go.com "As computer processing power increases and the advent of broadband enables the streaming of full motion video, th...

Despite the fact that the U.S. Congress has yet to put the final stamp of approval on China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Washington-based portal company China 2000, Inc. launched China2000business.com Thursday in an effort to promote electronic trade between the two countries The site is set up to be an encyclopedia of informati...