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Yahoo! and Broadcast.com Blast Past Expectations

Leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) continued its run of exceeding Wall Street's expectations when it announced its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the U.S. stock markets closed ...

E*Trade Branches Out Into Real Estate Market

Not content with being just an online broker, E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced today that it is expanding its e-commerce arsenal by branching out into real estate. E*Trade and online real estate marketplace Owners.com have launched a co-branded real estate service that can be accessed on E*Trade's mortgage center ...

BizRate.Com Banks $20 Million In New Financing

Online shopping is supposed to be empowering, but surfing through all the various retailers to make a purchase can often be exhausting and frustrating. That's why online shopping guides like BizRate.com, which are designed to help customers comparison shop and make informed purchases, are in favor ...

Wal-Mart Goes After Amazon.com

Leading e-commerce retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is clearly dominating online bookselling. The competition, however, just got a lot tougher ...

America Online Gets Stylish

America Online (NYSE: AOL) is becoming a little more fashionable and a little richer ...

CMGI Buys Majority Stake of Compaq’s Altavista

For about a week, Wall Street had been buzzing about a possible deal between Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) and computer manufacturer Compaq (Nasdaq: CPQ). The companies made it official today ...

MSN Expedia Gets Radio Show

For e-commerce companies, raising brand awareness through offline promotion can be an extremely costly yet crucial part of their marketing strategy. On Friday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that it had scored a significant coup in that regard ...

Autobytel.com Makes Deal To Offer Insurance

For first-time automobile buyers, one of the few things as frustrating as visiting a car dealership is figuring out which insurance company to use. On Thursday, online auto retailer Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) announced a partnership that could help customers avoid that hassle ...

Musicland Launches E-Commerce Stores

Music and entertainment retailer Musicland (NYSE: MLG) is hoping that e-commerce will turn its fortunes around. Musicland, which operates more than 1,300 brick-and-mortar stores including Sam Goody, Suncoast, MediaPlay and OnCue, announced Wednesday that it has launched e-commerce stores for all of its brick-and-mortar brands ...

Banking Giants Form Online Billing Venture

Banks like electronic billing because it is cost-efficient and can be faster than traditional forms of securing payment ...

CMGI Invests in BizBuyer.com

Last month, business-to-business online marketplace BizBuyer.com announced a $1 million (US$) seed round of financing from investors including eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman. Today, the buyer-drive marketplace -- founded in September of 1998 and based in Santa, Monica, California -- was greatly bolstered with the announcement of a $5 million commitment from @Ventures, the venture-capital arm of leading Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI)...

Yahoo! Launches New Auction Program For Merchants

In a direct blow to Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) auction strategy, leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) unveiled a new program today that is designed to help sellers with large inventories of items manage their auctions more efficiently ...

Starbucks, Oxygen Media to Offer a New Blend

Starbucks' e-commerce plans have been the source of much speculation ever since news of the company's possible e-commerce and portal plans began to circulate last month. Things became a little more clear on Thursday, when the specialty coffee retailer announced a strategic alliance with Oxygen Media, a high-profile media company that publishes a network of Web sites for women and is working to develop a cable channel...

Paul Allen’s Companies Partnering Up

It seemed like only a matter of time before the various companies that have Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as an investor started signing deals. One such deal was announced on Thursday. Mercata, a new e-commerce company that helps consumers get together as a group to receive discounts on merchandise, announced that it has partnered with online network Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET) to create a new category on Go2Net's shopping channel...

Symantec Spinoff Will Focus on E-Commerce

In a move that could add shareholder value, leading utility software provider Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced today that it plans to spin off its Internet Tools business unit to create a new, independent company ...

E*OFFERING Launches Web Site

Online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC), which went public on Friday, suddenly has some major competition. On Monday, online investment bank E*OFFERING, which is backed by online broker E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP), launched its Web site ...

XOOM.com Gobbles Up MightyMail

Direct e-commerce company XOOM.com (Nasdaq: XMCM), which will soon become part of NBC's new Internet division, added to its wide variety of services on Wednesday with the acquisition of MightyMail Networks ...

Navarre Gets Cozy With Linux

Online music, movie and software distributor Navarre (Nasdaq: NAVR) has jumped on the Linux bandwagon. On Wednesday, Navarre announced that it has entered into distribution deals with the four premier publishers of commercial versions of Linux: Caldera Systems, Red Hat Software, SuSe, Inc. and Simon & Schuster Interactive ...

Launch of Online Auction Lifts CyberShop

Shares of discount retailer CyberShop (Nasdaq: CYSP) are rocketing ahead in early trading today, after the company announced the launch of its online auction service, CyberShop Auctions. At about 10 a.m. ET, CyberShop stock was trading up 2-5/8 to 13-1/2, nearly 25 percent higher than Thursday's close ...

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