Clint Boulton

A few days after signing webMethods Inc. as its first client for its new B2B trust services, VeriSign Inc. Thursday reeled in Pilot Network Services Inc. as a new customer for the same suite of security tools. Pilot (PILT) will use the trust services for its subscription-based extranet services for enterprise customers. VeriSign’s (VRSN) digital […]

Compaq Computer Corp. Thursday took a 4 percent stake in CMGI’s Inc. latest venture, investing $20 million investment in CMGion, the incubator’s new majority-owned company. Designed to speed up the delivery of applications and content, the new venture will act as an “infomediary” between clients and servers. The incubator said the new network will “mine […]

In a deal between B2B heavyweights, security provider VeriSign Inc. Tuesday agreed to meld its new trust services with webMethods Inc. B2B integration solutions to allow business to more safely trade with one another over the Internet. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Through the bundling of webMethods’ technology with VeriSign’s B2B trust services, […]

Siebel Systems Inc. Tuesday bought e-commerce solution specialist OpenSite Inc. in a stock exchange worth $444 million. Each outstanding share of OpenSite common stock will be exchanged for approximately .13 for Siebel (SEBL) common shares. All outstanding stock options of OpenSite will be exchanged for Siebel Systems stock options at the same exchange ratio, which […]

This week, the Net industry heard Forrester Research sound the death knell for e-commerce-driven dot-coms, but if there is one thing some Net firms are recognizing is that people need to do certain things. People need to pay bills. Hence eBay’s (EBAY) development of its e-payment system Billpoint in conjunction with Wells Fargo (WFC) in […]

Dun & Bradstreet this week launched a solution that combines credit scoring and credit limit analysis to help customers make decisions. D&B (DNB) Credit Express delivers customized reports via a customer’s intranet for multi-user access. For credit managers and sales representatives, inquiries and answers to business issues can now be accessed through a corporate intranet. […]

Amazon.com Monday put its strategic alliance with drugstore.com to use by launching its new health and beauty store with a direct gateway to the online pharmacy. When shoppers go to the Amazon.com (AMZN) home page, they can click the health and beauty tab and enter the drugstore.com (DSCM) online storefront. This arrangement offers consumers convenient […]

Unidentified Microsoft Corp. engineers have created a backdoor password in some of the company’s Net software that may be used to gain illegal access to sites all over the world. Two security experts reportedly found the secret code, which poked fun at rival Netscape’s engineers, referring to them as “weenies,” the Wall Street Journal reported […]

Telecommunications firms Ericsson, Telefonab, Motorola Corp. and Nokia Corp. Wednesday inked wireless e-commerce pacts to develop a standard in wireless payment transactions. The three firms will bundle their security technologies for wireless money transfers into a mobile handset platform. Although Ericsson (ERICY), Motorola (MOT) and Nokia (NOK) already feature their own security, the companies said […]

Lucent Technologies Inc. Wednesday advanced its Internet strategy by sealing an optical networking venture with TeraBeam Networks. Lucent (LU) invested $450 million in cash in the new TeraBeam Internet Systems, taking a 30 percent stake. TeraBeam holds the remaining 70 percent. The firms will implement TeraBeam’s high-speed data networking between local and wide area networks. […]

Inktomi Corp. Tuesday released its third-generation search architecture, a super search index comprising 500 million Net documents. GEN3 underpins the Inktomi search engine and has the ability to index over one billion documents. This new architecture will provide portals and destination sites, offering users accurate search results and new search services. The GEN3 architecture is […]

Internet incubator CMGI Inc. continued its series of B2B developments Tuesday with the birth of a new firm, CMG-Internet Operating Network. Sun Microsystems Inc. and Novell Inc. will each lend technical support and invest $20 million in CMGion, which will serve as a global network of profile-based services. Designed to speed up the delivery of […]