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Online Used Car Sales: A Tale of Two Strategies

Two companies with widely divergent strategies are leading the charge to develop the market for selling used cars online ...

Loans.com Domain Auction Fetches Record $3M

Banking behemoth Bank of America has finalized a record $3 million (US$) auction bid for the domain name Loans.com ...

Kana and Silknet Announce $4.2B Merger

Online customer support company Kana Communications (Nasdaq: KANA) and Internet business software provider Silknet Software (Nasdaq: SILK) announced today that they will merge in a stock deal valued at $4.2 billion (US$) ...

Microsoft and FairMarket Debut B2B Auction Site

Software titan Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and online auction hosting company FairMarket announced the launch today of a business-to-business (B2B) auction site for Microsoft's new small business portal ...

AOL Acquires Stake in Netcentives

America Online announced today that it has acquired a stake in online rewards and direct marketing company Netcentives (Nasdaq: NCNT) and that it will apply the company's services to two key e-commerce bonus programs ...

DoubleClick Sued for Online Privacy Invasion

As consumer fears about privacy invasion threaten to stall the considerable growth of e-commerce, a lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court Thursday alleging that Internet advertising firm DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) has obtained and sold the personal information of online users ...

E-LOAN Launches Multi-Lender Site in UK

As the United Kingdom continued to roil over scandals in the traditional home mortgage industry, online lender E-LOAN, Inc. launched a UK home loan Web site Monday. The Dublin, California-based company, which claims to be the first multi-lender online site in the region, plans to offer over 35 lenders and some 10,000 loan products to UK consumers ...

New CMGI Venture Targets Asia-Pacific E-Business

Internet network CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) announced today that it is forming a joint venture with Hong Kong-based Pacific Century Cyber Works (PCCW) to create and operate a network of Internet businesses in the Asia-Pacific region ...

Healtheon/WebMD Acquires Medical Transaction Processor for $2.5B

Internet healthcare company Healtheon/Web MD (Nasdaq: HLTH) announced today that it will acquire the ENVOY Corporation, a large provider of electronic data interchange (EDI) services to the healthcare industry, for approximately $2.5 billion (US$) ...

Internet Gold Partners in Israeli Online Brokerage

Internet service provider Internet Gold (Nasdaq: IGLD) has announced that it will continue to expand e-commerce in Israel by forming an online brokerage with three partners ...

Commerce One and Swiss Telco To Form B2B Marketplace

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce provider Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) and Swiss telecom provider Swisscom (NYSE: SCM) announced Tuesday that they will join forces to establish a B2B online marketplace in Europe ...

Online Gambling Site Settles California Investigation

YouBet.com (Nasdaq: UBET), an online gambling site based in Los Angeles, has reportedly agreed to pay $1.3 million (US$) to California authorities to settle an investigation into the company's online horse racing operation in the state ...

Online Grocer Receives $100M Investment

Online grocer HomeRuns.com announced today that The Cypress Group, a private equity firm, has purchased a $100 million (US$) majority stake in the Somerville, Massachusetts-based company ...

Toysrus.com Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit

After enduring a flood of negative publicity over a string of high-profile holiday failures, Toys "R" Us is now facing a class action lawsuit brought by a Seattle, Washington attorney ...

Elite U.S. Athletes Back European Sports Site

Sports.com Limited, a European sports content provider, announced today that elite athletes Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Shaquille O'Neal will lend some of their considerable resources and name recognition to a second-round funding of the company ...

CyberCash Denies Fault in Security Breach Case

After coming under heavy scrutiny for an alleged software failure that allowed an unidentified hacker to purloin and publish confidential credit card information on the Internet, CyberCash has issued a terse statement denying that its product contributed in any way to the security breach ...

Softbank Plows $100M Into Latin American Venture

Japanese Internet investor Softbank Corp. announced today that it will continue its aggressive global push by launching a $100 million (US$) fund aimed at the Latin American market ...

Akamai Doubles E-Commerce Customer Base

Internet content and applications delivery company Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) said today that it has doubled its customer base to 200 Web properties in the past six weeks, and has added a number of household names in the process ...

Mating Service for Lonely Patents Gets Heavyweight Backing

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based yet2.com, a pioneer in the field of intellectual property buying and selling over the Internet, announced today that it has received $20 million (US$) in backing from a group of high-profile venture capitalists and multinational corporations, including Proctor & Gamble and Honeywell ...

Ticketmaster Adds Cultural Event Tickets In 1,500 Cities

City information and ticket vendor Ticketmaster Online-City Search (Nasdaq: TXCS) announced today that it has expanded its access to cultural offerings in about 1,500 cities across the United States by signing a marketing and distribution agreement with CultureFinder.com ...

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