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Autobytel.com Launches Banking Center

In an effort to simplify the car-buying process, online automobile dealer Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) has launched a new online banking center that will allow buyers to compare loan rates from up to four lenders. The center is partnered with online loan marketplace LendingTree and online credit automation company CMSI (Nasdaq: CMSS) ...

Kinko’s, iPrint to Offer Custom Printing Solutions

Kinko's, the brick-and-mortar copy center king, announced today that it has formed an alliance with iPrint, an online provider of print shop technology. The new service will offer custom printing solutions to both businesses and individuals ...

Vitamins.com Secures Funding, Promotion Deal

Vitamins.com, the online supplier of vitamins and other nutritional supplements, announced today that it has raised $22.5 million (US$) in funding and will now be strategically allied with retail drugstore chain Phar-Mor. The round of financing was led by Acacia Venture Partners in San Francisco, with several other venture capital firms participating. Investors include CIBC Capital Partners, Demuth, Folger & Wetherill and Grove Street Advisors...

Xoom.com Buys Into E-mail Again

Direct e-commerce company Xoom.com (Nasdaq: XMCM) announced today that it has acquired 100 percent of e-mail security company Private One, Inc. The move is an effort to strengthen MightyMail, the direct marketing e-mail solutions provider that it acquired in June. Financial terms were not disclosed ...

Styleclick.com Goes Broadband With Intertainer

Online apparel retailer Styleclick.com (Nasdaq: IBUY) has signed a broadband content syndication agreement with Intertainer Inc., an interactive network that provides entertainment-on-demand to both cable and telecommunications companies. Styleclick.com's content will appear on Intertainer's service when it launches to consumer audiences in the fall...

Akamai Hires New CFO, Looks Toward IPO

As it drives toward its upcoming initial public offering, Akamai Technologies has strengthened its hand by hiring banking veteran Timothy Weller to be its chief financial officer. The company offers content-delivery services that speed up performance for e-commerce sites, portal sites and news sites ...

E*Trade Stays Busy, Invests in LoanCity.com

As part of a year-long campaign to transform itself into a full-service destination site, E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced Monday that it has become the leading investor in online mortgage bank LoanCity.com's second round of funding. New Enterprise Associates provided much of the funding for LoanCity.com's first round ...

StarMedia To Offer Latin-Flavored Online Shopping

StarMedia Network (Nasdaq: STRM), a leading online network for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audiences, will now offer its users direct access to online grocery shopping. The network surprised some observers by forgoing well-known players like Webvan and Peapod in favor of LatinGrocer, an online grocery service that caters to the same target audience...

The Knot Gets Tighter with AOL

Online wedding resource and gift registry the Knot has renewed its vows with America Online (NYSE: AOL), and will now become the premier wedding content partner for AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com and Netscape Netcenter. Additionally, the firm will be an anchor tenant in the registry area of Shop@AOL, Shop@CompuServe, Shop@Netscape and Shop@Digital City ...

E-Commerce Sales Power Dell’s Solid Quarter

Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) leapt past Wall Street's expectations after the markets closed on Tuesday, reporting strong e-commerce sales and record earnings for the second quarter of 1999. Net income rose to $507 million (US$), a 47 percent increase over the $346 million reported for the second quarter of 1998. Revenues grew to $6.142 billion, a 42 percent increase over the $4.331 billion reported a year ago. Dell's earnings per share of 19 cents were two cents better than the consensus estimate of analysts...

InfoSpace.com Buys E-Commerce Provider INEX

InfoSpace.com announced today that it has signed an agreement to purchase INEX Corporation, a Toronto, Canada-based company that provides solutions for merchants to build, manage and promote online stores. This deal will allow InfoSpace.com to offer its affiliates tools to build e-commerce businesses ...

CMGI Buys Into Buyingedge.com

Buyingedge.com, a company that is attempting to shake up the world of online auctions, has gotten a vote of confidence from one of the Internet's biggest kingmakers ...

GE Plugs Into Modem Media

Modem Media.Poppe Tyson (Nasdaq: MMPT), which builds and markets online businesses for large companies, has landed another significant deal from a corporate heavyweight. Today, Modem Media announced that General Electric (NYSE: GE) has committed to a contract worth more than $11 million (US$) through September 30, 2000 ...

eBay Tries To Rebound From Outage — Again

Here we go again. On Friday, leading auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) suffered another embarrassing outage that will be costly in more ways than one. eBay's site was down for about 14 hours on Friday, beginning at 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time. In June, eBay also suffered a major outage. That 22-hour outage led to an estimated $3 million (US$) to $5 million of lost revenue for eBay, largely because the company refunded listing and transaction fees...

Webvan IPO Shoots to Raise $345 Million

Online grocer Webvan Group Inc., announced Friday that it has filed for a $345 million initial stock sale to raise money to build and equip its planned brick-and-mortar distribution centers ...

Yahoo! Teams With E-Stamp To Launch Postal Center

Monday was a historical day for the era of Internet postage, as the U.S. Postal Service approved the technology of online postage companies E-Stamp and Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP). Monday was also the day Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) made its own major push into the emerging market ...

Wit Capital Strikes Deal With AOL

The era of after-hours stock trading is nearly upon us, and online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC) is aiming to capitalize on this growing market. On Thursday, Wit Capital announced a deal that will make it a founding partner and the first company to provide information for America Online's (NYSE:AOL) new after-hours trading center ...

Sportsline Launches Sports.com For European Audience

Online sports content network Sportsline USA (Nasdaq: SPLN) has a name that makes it sound like it only focuses on American sports, but the company now has its eyes on Europe. Today, Sportsline USA announced that its Sportsline Europe division has launched a new site for fans of European sports. If nothing else, the new site has a perfect domain name: sports.com...

Ariba Expands Global Presence

With a major challenge from Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) looming, business-to-business e-commerce solutions provider Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) is strengthening its global presence. On Friday, Ariba announced that it has opened five new regional hubs to provide support for its European clients in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland...

VerticalNet Adds LabX To Its Collection

Just two days after the successful initial public offering of Chemdex (Nasdaq: CMDX), which provides e-commerce solutions for the life sciences industry, business-to-business community network VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT) gobbled up one of Chemdex's competitors. Today, VerticalNet announced the acquisition of labX.com, an online trading community for used and excess scientific laboratory equipment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed...

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