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In a move to enter into the European enterprise retail services market, Amazon.com and leading United Kingdom retailer Marks & Spencer today released details of an e-commerce alliance. The announcement also officially introduces Amazon Services Europe, the dot-com's Luxembourg-based subsidiary.

Traditional broadcasting giant Viacom, which reported lackluster earnings from its over-the-air properties such as CBS and UPN, said today it is looking more to cable and the Internet, where the company sees greener pastures for its content and bottom line. For its first quarter 2005 financial resul...

America Online today announced that it has reached agreements with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to bring thousands of music videos to AOL Music, which reaches more than 22 million music fans a month. AOL spokesperson Ann Burkart told the E-Commerce Times that the deal enhances the In...

Starting this month, Ingenio is teaming up with AOL Search to provide businesses nationwide a new marketing strategy that combines the Internet and the telephone. Called Pay Per Call, the strategy offers the power of Internet pay-per-click marketing to small businesses in their own regions. The new ...

In what marks the biggest ever deal in the content creation and Web development sector, Adobe Systems today announced it would acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$3.4 billion. The company said the merger will allow Adobe to meet a wider set of customer needs and...

Become.com is vying to become the next mySimon.com. That's either fitting or ironic, seeing as Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, the team behind online comparison shopping pioneer mySimon.com, are Become.com's founders. Become.com indexes over 2.2 billion pages of shopping-related information from over ...

The Internet is helping to change the face of tax season, with as many as half of all U.S. taxpayers expected to use a free Web service to file their tax returns this year. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that its free E-File program is on pace to grow some 44 percent over last year's record...

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson became the latest high-profile technology company to disappoint investors with its first quarter earnings report, saying today that low-price handsets from competitors was pinching its profits. Sony Ericsson said it earned US$41 million in the first quarter, a 61 per...

A critical path to growth for any company is the creation of business proposals that ultimately are accepted by prospective customers. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that many proposals are poorly prepared and lose site of both their goal (to secure a sale) and their audience (the prospect...

Tens of thousands of people who want to wipe out their debts in bankruptcy court would have to work out repayment plans instead under legislation Congress approved Thursday. A 302-126 vote by the House sent the legislation to President Bush, who said he was eager to sign the measure, the biggest rew...

Number two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced plans to spin off its Spansion flash memory business, which has been a drag on the parent company's performance amid an industry-wide glut of the technology. AMD registered for an initial public offering of the Spansion unit, saying the...

In a recent decision that might have wide ranging implications for the growing number of people who work by telecommuting from home, the New York Appeals Court ruled that a Nashville man who works remotely via a PC for a New York-based union -- but 25 percent of the time performs his employment with...

It is designed to increase network speed, bandwidth, and the ability to share vast amounts of data quickly and easily, but according to copyright owners, the next-generation Internet known as Internet2 has also been facilitating illegal, unlicensed trading of copyrighted music and movie files. The R...

Wireless e-mail connectivity will be a built-in feature on all smartphones by the end of 2008, according to a new report from Gartner that underscores the shift in the hand-held device market and portends massive future changes. Gartner said wireless e-mail is on its way to becoming a mainstream mob...

In a move to enhance its search and advertising businesses, Yahoo announced today it would offer free Web hosting to small businesses. The Internet company said any small business can sign up for a free Web page that will appear in Yahoo's Local directory. Yahoo Local general manager Paul Levine sai...