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Lycos Bets $270M On Gamesville.com

Internet portal Lycos, Inc. announced today that it will spend $270 million (US$) in stock to acquire Boston, Massachusetts-based gaming site Gamesville.com ...

U.S. Presidential Candidates Cash In With E-Commerce Technology

According to the November 22nd issue of PRWeek, U.S. presidential candidate Bill Bradley has combined e-commerce technology, an increasingly-popular message and the reach of the Internet to raise the most cyber dollars for the 2000 presidential campaign ...

AOL Taps Intuit For Bill Payment Service

America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it has bulked up its already-popular personal finance channel by signing a five-year agreement with Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) to offer an online service for household billing ...

TD Waterhouse Launches UK Online Brokerage

Discount brokerage TD Waterhouse (NYSE: TWE) announced Monday that it has continued its overseas expansion by launching an online service for the UK market ...

Microsoft To Face Class-Action Suit

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 ...

CMGI Plans $1 Billion B2B Venture Fund

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 ...

Lycos Takes E-Commerce To The Skies

Internet portal Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Inflightonline.com to provide Internet services to airline passengers ...

Disney Wins Reprieve In Go Logo Dispute

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 ...

Farming Site Gets Into Auction Game

North Carolina-based XS, Inc., the parent company of XSAg.com, announced today that it has secured $20 million (US$) in financing to develop an auction site that will help beleaguered American farmers buy agricultural goods at discount rates ...

Compaq, C&W Forge $500M Deal

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 ...

Compaq, C&W Forge $500M Deal

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 ...

Stamps.com Pushes Envelope With New Subsidiary

Internet postage provider Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) announced today that it has created a new subsidiary that will offer encrypted printing of tickets, vouchers, certificates and other paper instruments for the events, travel and financial services industry ...

Microsoft And Expedia Slapped With Second Lawsuit

For the second time in just over a month, online travel site Expedia.com, which is majority-owned by Microsoft, has been sued in a federal court ...

IBM Expands E-Business Center Overseas

IBM's Global Services division announced yesterday that it is expanding the e-business innovation center it built in Atlanta, Georgia four years ago by building a network of facilities throughout the U.S. and Europe ...

Disney’s Network Logo A No ‘Go’

Disney and its Go Network's plans to launch a publicly-traded division called go.com suffered a setback last week when a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction that prevented the company from using its familiar Go logo ...

Staples.com Assembles Advisory Team For E-Commerce Push

Office supply superstore Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) announced today that it has sold a five percent stake in its e-commerce unit and has appointed an advisory board to guide it toward its goal of $1 billion (US$) in online sales by the year 2003 ...

Genealogy.com To Link To Ellis Island Resource

Genealogy.com announced today that it will assist in providing an online resource to track the journeys of millions of immigrants who came to America at New York Harbor's Ellis Island ...

Amazon Ushers In Era of E-Department Stores

Leading online retailer Amazon.com(NYSE: AMZN) has taken a giant step away from its original incarnation as an online bookseller by announcing the launch of home improvement, software, video game and gift idea stores. Richard Chin, Amazon's director of product development, told the E-Commerce Times that the corporate plan has always been to offer a wide range of items, despite public perception to the contrary.

Amazon and NextCard To Offer Co-Branded Credit Card

Amazon.com continued a frenetic week of activity today by announcing that it will create a co-branded credit card with Internet credit card issuer NextCard that could generate up to $150 million (US$) in fees for the online retail giant ...

Legal Woes Mount For Internet Credit Card Provider

The Connecticut Attorney General is investigating the sales and billing practices of the nation's eighth-largest credit card issuer Providian Financial Corp., compounding the company's rapidly-mounting legal woes ...

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