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Six Airlines Target Priceline with Travel Site

Six major airline companies are reportedly banding together to challenge name-your-price pioneer Priceline.com for dominance in the discount air travel marketplace ...

AOL in Digital Download Deal

Mammoth Internet service provider America Online announced an agreement Tuesday with InterTrust Technologies Corp. that will allow AOL's 23 million subscribers to digitally download music and videos for a fee, while protecting copyrighted material from theft ...

Online Investors Lose Millions in Pyramid Scheme

Just one day after U.S. regulators charged more than 120 people in 11 states with online investment fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday shut down a "virtual stock exchange" that allegedly defrauded hundreds of investors across the country ...

Report: E-Commerce Coming of Age in Latin America

Latin American electronic commerce is poised to skyrocket to $15 billion (US$) by 2003, according to a new study by New York-based research firm eMarketer ...

BET.com Unveils African-American Homebuyer Service

BET.com announced Wednesday that it has forged an alliance with mortgage loan financier Fannie Mae and lenders Cendant Mortgage and HomeSide Lending, Inc. to offer an online service for African-American homebuyers ...

Consumer Product Giants Form Online Exchange

A consortium of 49 consumer product companies announced Wednesday the formation of Transora.com, a business-to-business (B2B) online marketplace to be launched this fall ...

New Financing Buys Time for eToys

Refuting rumors that it would run out of cash by the end of 2000, online toy retailer eToys bought itself some breathing room Tuesday with $100 million (US$) in capital raised from the sale of preferred convertible stock ...

NBCi To Restructure Web Holdings

NBC Internet, Inc. (NBCi), a dot-com division of the National Broadcasting Company, said Tuesday that it will restructure and consolidate all of its Web holdings under one banner ...

Music Industry Seeks Napster Shutdown

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked a federal court judge Monday to issue an injunction to prevent music swap site Napster from "facilitating or assisting others in the copying, downloading, uploading, transmission or distribution of copyrighted musical works." ...

Curtain Falls on Reel.com

Hollywood Entertainment Corp. announced Monday that it is shutting down the e-commerce aspects of Reel.com, the film-related Web site that was often ranked among the ten most visited Internet sites ...

Priceline and Kroger To Offer Name-Your-Price Groceries

Mammoth U.S. grocery chain The Kroger Co. announced Thursday that it will join forces with name-your-own-price service Priceline WebHouse Club, Inc., a privately-held licensee of Priceline.com. The WebHouse Club allows online shoppers to name their own price for groceries, up to half-off ...

Under Fire, Airline Mega-Site Defends Plan

In an attempt to fend off mounting criticism of what promises to be the Internet's largest travel Web site, executives for the so-called "Travelocity Terminator" came forward Thursday to defend their plan to combine the forces of five of the largest U.S. airlines ...

U.S. Lawmakers Reach E-Signature Accord

Following negotiations that have consumed most of this year, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have apparently reached an accord on the terms of a digital signature bill ...

Judge Orders Microsoft Breakup

After two years of contentious legal wrangling, Microsoft Corporation was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to split its operation into two competing companies ...

Barnes & Noble Joins E-Publishing Race

The online publishing industry continued to gain momentum Tuesday as Internet bookseller Barnesandnoble.com announced an investment of $20 million (US$) in exchange for a 30 percent stake in Mighty Words, a subsidiary of Internet bookstore and publisher Fatbrain.com ...

Barnes & Noble Joins E-Publishing Race

The online publishing industry continued to gain momentum Tuesday as Internet bookseller Barnesandnoble.com announced an investment of $20 million (US$) in exchange for a 30 percent stake in Mighty Words, a subsidiary of Internet bookstore and publisher Fatbrain.com ...

Barnes & Noble Joins E-Publishing Race

The online publishing industry continued to gain momentum Tuesday as Internet bookseller Barnesandnoble.com announced an investment of $20 million (US$) in exchange for a 30 percent stake in Mighty Words, a subsidiary of Internet bookstore and publisher Fatbrain.com ...

Industry Heavyweights Propose E-Commerce Guidelines

The Electronic Commerce and Consumer Protection Group, a working group comprised of seven of the world's leading Internet and e-commerce companies, proposed a set of guidelines Tuesday designed to protect online consumers and "inspire global discussions of legal issues related to consumer transactions in the borderless, instantaneous new medium." ...

Toysrus.com To Expand Operations

Just days after Disney-backed online toy retailer Toysmart.com shut its virtual doors for good, Toysrus.com announced Monday that it plans to double its staff and expand operations over the next year ...

Healtheon/Web MD Joins Online Insurance Game

Online healthcare company Healtheon/WebMD has announced a strategic alliance with Internet insurance service company SimplyHealth.com to provide insurance services to its customers ...

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