Beth Cox

Bratch Innovation was chosen by Diversinet Corp. to assist them with a customer acquisition and marketing program for Canada and the U.S.A. Diversinet provides electronic commerce security products based on Digital Certificate technology for diverse authentication and authorization applications on corporate networks, Intranets, and the Internet. Bratch Innovation will be assisting with marketing Diversinet’s key […]

Virgin Holidays Ltd. and Toronto, Ontario-based Internet Liquidators International (ILI) inked an exclusive agreement to auction travel packages on BID.COM, ILI’s online auction site. The online auctions of last-minute travel deals–the first of their kind in Canada–launched this week with the promise of offering Canadian consumers unprecedented travel deals. “Virgin Holidays was one of the […]

European Union to Consider Taxation of Internet Commerce The European Commission has issued a proposal that goods and services ordered online by EU residents should be subject to value added tax (VAT). The EU is stating that no new taxes should be applied to e-commerce activities, but that they should not escape the taxes already […]

Microsoft Corp. announced it will no longer provide Internet access via its MSN online service in Germany, and instead will focus exclusively on developing online content. The move raises further questions about the future of the service that some analysts say continues to be a cash drain for Microsoft which has gone through several incarnations […]

E*Trade Expands Operations Into Britain Online stockbroker E*Trade is moving into the British online share trading market by creating a company out of a joint venture with Electronic Share Information. E*Trade will be the only stockbroker to offer purely online facilities as opposed to online trading in addition to traditional means. Britain is seen as […]

Lycos Europe announced today it signed in excess of $15 million in electronic commerce agreements in the last 60 days, including a $5.5 million deal with CDnow and an agreement that makes Lycos the exclusive search technology throughout Europe for America Online. Other agreements with European companies include: Grolier Interactive Europe; World Media Live; The […]

Report: Asia Poised for intranet Take-Off According to a survey by IDC Asia/Pacific, Asian businesses are going full steam ahead with plans to deploy new Internet/intranet technology and expand the functions of current server capabilities, despite the region’s economic woes. The report, “The Internet/Intranet Server Market in Asia Pacific, 1997-2002,” said that shipments of unbundled […]

Adding to its growing list of foreign-language sites, Yahoo! Inc. today announced the launch of Yahoo! en espanol, a Spanish version of its popular Web guide. The directory contains 5,000 Web sites from 20 Spanish-speaking countries, and is divided into 14 different categories selected by Spanish-speaking Yahoo! surfers. Content includes business and entertainment features as […]

Competition Between Hong Kong and Singapore Takes to the Net Hong Kong and Singapore have vied with each other for decades for leadership in shipping, trade, and financial services. Now that competition has spread to cyberspace. In the last year, the two cities each launched advanced local telecommunications networks capable of delivering high-speed Internet access […]

Bell Canada and MPACT Immedia have agreed to merge the Electronic Business Solutions (EBS) unit of Bell Emergis with MPACT Immedia. The deal will introduce a major new player on the electronic commerce scene bolstered by a combined annual revenue of approximately $75 million. According to the parties, the new entity will rank among the […]

TELUS and Alberta, Canada’s news providers joined forces recently to expand the reach of current news on the Internet with the convenience of a powerful search engine. Under the agreement, the Alberta Web sites of the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal and WIC (Western International Communications Ltd.) feature

ViewCall Canada Inc. and Websurfer Inc. in partnership with Canada’s SchoolNet, are working to make the Internet more accessible to schools, students and parents in the Canadian province of Manitoba. This new project will see Websurfer Internet set-top boxes placed in 15 student homes/schools in Manitoba school divisions immediately. Parents and students will have access […]