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Bank of America, BroadVision Form Net Services Venture

Bank of America and BroadVisiona provider of personalized e-business applications, announced Monday that they are forming a new company to develop customized business-to-employee (B2E) portals for corporate intranets ...

Report: Online Research Drives Offline Spending

A new report by research firm Jupiter Communications (Nasdaq: JPTR) predicts that the total dollars (US$) spent by consumers for online and Web-influenced offline purchases will exceed $235 billion this year and top $831 billion in 2005 ...

DOJ, States Slam Microsoft Proposal

In a blistering 73-page response filed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 19 states staunchly rejected Microsoft Corporation's proposal for self-imposed remedies to keep its company intact ...

Uncle Sam Exposed as Cybercrook’s Accomplice

A Trenton, New Jersey man admitted in federal court this week that he obtained the Social Security numbers of U.S. military officials over the Internet and used them to obtain phony credit cards ...

Banned Napster Users Fight Back

Thousands of users booted by Napster last week for allegedly swapping copies of Metallica songs online are claiming that they have done nothing wrong and want their access to the music swapping software restored ...

Report: Net Grocers Will Succeed Despite Pitfalls

New research by IDC shows that online grocery spending will grow from approximately $200 million (US$) in 1999 to over $8.8 billion by 2004, despite several potential pitfalls along the way ...

SEC Fines AOL, Scrutinizes Net Firms

America Online (AOL) has been slapped with a cease and desist order by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has agreed to pay a civil penalty to settle charges in the amount of $3.5 million (US$) ...

Digital Data Changing Legal Landscape

A survey of trial lawyers and judges by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that few companies are prepared to comply with a subpoena demanding production of their digital files for use in litigation, even though most companies store up to 70 percent of their records in electronic form ...

PC Deal Boosts Singapore Web Access

The National Trade Union Corporation (NTUC) of Singapore has agreed to provide 300,000 low-cost PCs to its members through a partnership with PeoplePC ...

Disney Seeks AOL Time Warner Limitations

The Walt Disney Company asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) late Thursday to place "meaningful and enforceable conditions" on the proposed merger between America Online and Time Warner ...

Intel Announces $200M Web Broadcast Network

In an effort to broaden its sales beyond microprocessors, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced plans Thursday to build a $200 million (US$) streaming media business that will allow customers to broadcast anything from financial briefings to feature films over the Web ...

MP3.com Caves in to Legal Blow

Just weeks after being found liable for copyright infringement, MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily removing "Big Five" record company content from its My.MP3.com database ...

U.S. House Votes To Extend Net Tax Ban

In an overwhelming show of support for e-commerce, the United States House of Representatives voted 352 to 75 Wednesday to extend the moratorium on Internet-specific taxes -- currently set to expire in October 2001 -- for an additional five years ...

DOJ: Microsoft Used ‘Time-Tested Tricks’

Speaking at a meeting of business leaders at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business Tuesday, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division Head Joel Klein described Microsoft's efforts to crush competition as "the time-tested tricks of the monopolist's trade." ...

No ‘Safe Harbor’ for Napster

A federal judge has refused to dismiss the copyright lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)against Napster, rejecting the online file swapping company's argument that its service is legal ...

uBid Sued After Canceling Winning Bids

Online auction house uBid (Nasdaq: UBID) was sued Friday by group of bidders who claim that the Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based company defrauded them by canceling winning bids for high-dollar (US$) computer equipment ...

Police Nab Love Bug Suspect

The Philippines National Bureau of Investigations (NBI) moved in on the suspected authors of the "Love Bug" virus on Monday, raiding an apartment in Pandacan, a neighborhood of the capital Manila. A young man was arrested and led away, while a young woman is expected to present herself to authorities on Monday or Tuesday ...

FBI Busts Up Global Web Piracy Ring

Capping what the head of the FBI's Chicago Office described as the agency's "most significant investigation of copyright infringement involving the use of the Internet," a U.S. grand jury indicted 17 people on Thursday for their role in posting pirated software valued at over $1 million (US$) on secret Web sites ...

Survey: Shoppers Cool to Net Grocers

Americans are not likely to abandon their local supermarkets to shop for food on the Internet anytime soon, according to a new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. In fact, only 18 percent of the 500-plus Internet users who participated in the 1999 PricewaterhouseCoopers Retail Intelligence System annual consumer survey expressed any interest in online grocery shopping...

24/7 Media Sues DoubleClick for Patent Infringement

With ad serving technology now an essential component of many e-commerce operations, interactive advertising company 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM) announced Friday that it has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against controversial competitor DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) ...

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