Elizabeth Clampet

Online auction eBay Inc. Monday launched a new category to group the site’s automotive auctions into one area. The auto area features sub-categories for cars, parts, RVs, trucks and motorcycles. Features include a gallery that enables users to browse items in a series of pictures, a customized personal shopper tool and a featured auction area. […]

After preliminarily endorsing anti-cybersquatting tactics at its May board meeting, the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers adopted resolutions to prohibit cybersquatting at this week’s board meeting in Santiago, Chile. Based on recommendations submitted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ICANN Thursday approved a procedure that prohibits people who register a popular Internet […]

Looking to build the IP telephony market in Asia, Cisco Systems, Inc. Thursday entered into an agreement with Taiwan’s Acer Group to accelerate enterprise telephony adoption. Under terms of the agreement, Acer and Cisco will jointly develop and market multiservice networking applications based on DVVI (Data, Voice and Video Integration) architectures from Cisco. No financial […]

Infrastructure company Cisco Systems, Inc. Thursday acquired networking companies Cerent Corp. and Monterey Networks, Inc. for a combined $7.4 billion in stock. The acquisitions were made to strengthen Cisco’s hold on the Internet infrastructure market, specifically optical transport. Cerent’s only product is the Cerent 454, a box that organizes and compresses voice, data and video […]

Financial firm MarketXT Inc. Wednesday launched its alternative tradings system (ATS), a tool designed for brokerages looking to provide after-hours trading. ATS allows brokerages to provide after-hours trading and resources to individual investors. Individuals can invest in 200 actively-traded Nasdaq and NYSE stocks during 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Monday through Thursday. Features include real-time price […]

Looking to get in on this year’s predicted online holiday shopping boom, The Walt Disney Co. Wednesday invested a controlling stake in online toy retailer toysmart.com. Disney’s Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG) reportedly took a 60 percent stake in toysmart.com for $20 million with another $25 million in free advertising, according to the New York […]

Reversing an earlier decision, a federal appeals court in California this week ruled that a company with a trademark does not necessarily have the right to prevent others from registering coincidental domain names. The decision stems from a lawsuit involving office supply company Avery Dennison Corp. and a Los Angeles businessman who registered “avery.net” and […]

America Online Inc. Tuesday launched version 3.0 of its popular Instant Messenger communications tool, on the heels of the recent launch of a messaging tool by Microsoft. Available via free download, features added to version 3.0 include: a customized news and stock ticker, as well as buddy list icons and an auto-reconnect if the connection […]

Facing criticism over its open stance on sellers who overprice merchandise, eBay Inc. has amended some of its policies, specifically how the auction site deals with reserve bids. Until now, sellers could freely set a “reserve price” for an item. A reserve price is the amount a seller deems to be the acceptable lowest bid […]

Online postage company Stamps.com Inc. Monday partnered with Microsoft Corp. to deliver stamps to Office users. With the agreement, Microsoft Office users can use applications such as Word and Outlook to print US Post Office-approved postage from ordinary printers. The service requires no hardware, no set-up fees and no special connections. The postage is downloaded […]

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers is fighting a large debt and reportedly has called on a few big name companies to defray some of its costs. The domain name group Friday secured $650,000 in loans from MCI Worldcom and Cisco to keep from going broke. MCI Worldcom lent ICANN $500,000, and the […]

A domain name lawsuit involving national bank holding company U.S. Bancorp and a small bank in Philadelphia this week led a federal court to issue an injunction temporarily shutting down Philadelphia’s USABanc.com’s newly launched Web site. U.S. Bancorp last month filed suit in Minnesota against USABanc.com, Inc. in an attempt stop it from using its […]