Clint Boulton

E*TRADE Group Inc. Monday formed a joint venture in Germany to capitalize on growth opportunities in electronic personal finance services. Financial terms were not disclosed. E*TRADE (EGRP) said the German venture, which includes Berliner Effektenbank AG and New York Broker Germany AG, is in recognition of the fact that Germany has Europe’s most advanced discount […]

Atlantis Software Friday announced the launch of PagerServer, which provides companies with the option to have their own secure Internet and intranet pager gateway. PageServer includes true load sharing and the ability for simultaneous transmissions across multiple modems, redundancy protection, enhanced encryption and a fully customizable Web page user interface. If 20 messages are going […]

Scandinavia Company’s deo.com Friday signed an agreement with Microsoft to use the Windows Media Audio 4.0 for the safe transfer of music over the Net. Microsoft (MSFT) said it will market deo.com, Europe’s leading music portal for the digital distribution of music on the Net, on several of its sites in Europe and the U.S. […]

Autobytel.com expanded its new car offerings Friday with the acquisition of A.I.N. Corp., owner of CarSmart.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CarSmart.com, which also offers new and pre-owned cars online, has marketing agreements with mighty portals including, America Online Inc. (AOL), AltaVista and GO Network (GONT). CarSmart services more than 240 credit unions, […]

Microsoft Thursday announced the launch of bCentral, a Web-based business portal created for growing businesses. Available in the U.S. in beta version since Sept. 30, the site’s purposes include helping businesses build a Web site, promoting and marketing the site and managing a business more effectively. Microsoft’s (MSFT) bCentral merges the companies expertise, from the […]

E*TRADE Group Inc. and the Internet’s leading bookseller Amazon.com Thursday announced an agreement to launch a joint bookstore on the Destination E*TRADE Web site. The site offers top-selling books in personal finance and online investing to E*TRADE (EGRP) clients and members at Amazon.com’s (AMZN) reduced prices. Book subjects span a variety of issues, from basic […]

e-Net subsidiary ZeroPlus.com Wednesday unveiled a new Speed Dial Service, offering consumers a glimpse at its new e-commerce strategy. Also released was e-Net’s (ETEL) Multiple Telephone Set Gateway. E-commerce Web sites that use the Speed Dial service will let customers make free Net calls to their customer service centers simply by clicking an icon on […]

Media giant Excite@Home Tuesday agreed to a global alliance with IBM Corp. that will make Excite the default portal on IBM’s Aptiva PC line. This deal gives Excite@Home (ATHM) important placement as the “Internet” button on IBM’s (IBM) new Rapid Access II Keyboard, a simple stroke the lets users have one-touch access to their favorite […]

With the aid of the American Medical Association, Intel Corp. Tuesday launched a business that develops online credential services to enable bonafide health communications and transactions on the Net. Intel’s (INTC) Internet Authentication Services (IAS) will help leading health care organizations to produce “online health cards,” credentials so that doctors and patients may establish trust […]

Ask Jeeves Monday launched its Shopping Advisor service in partnership with etown.com. The tool allows Web-based businesses to offer consumers a more efficient way to make product-purchasing decisions online. Rather than recommending products by their features, Ask Jeeves’ (ASKJ) Shopping Advisor offers merchandise based on consumers’ preferences. “The IDA Shopping Advisor has been successful in […]

In an effort to enable its business to conduct point-of-sale mortgage offerings on the Net, mortgage.com Monday snagged three financial companies. Capital Savings Co., BuildNet Inc. and BuildNet Financial are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CSC Holdings LLC from North Carolina. mortgage.com (MDCM) expects the triple purchase will bulk up its offering of purchase-money mortgages, which accounted […]

Macromedia said Thursday it has agreed to merge with e-marketing software giant Andromedia to aid its new e-Business Infrastructure strategy. The deal highlighted a busy day for Macromedia (MACR) at Fall Internet World ’99, where the Net powerhouse also formed an alliance with USWeb/CKS and unveiled an e-Business Infrastructure plan, which was endorsed by BroadVision. […]