Elizabeth Clampet

Alleging extortion, mail fraud, wire fraud, and other racketeering activities, online bookstore Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday filed a lawsuit against an alleged cybersquatter running a copycat Web site in Greece. Greg Lloyd Smith and his wife, Aikaterini Theochari, who live in Greece, are among the defendants, as are Smith’s companies, CITI Services Inc., a Delaware-based holding […]

Summer’s dog days are still in full swing, but Lycos Inc. Wednesday launched a service designed to get merchants online well in time for the holiday season. Lycos Merchant Center is a storefront building utility designed for those wanting to get in on the e-commerce game. Its tools include store-building software, real-time credit card processing […]

Infoseek Corp. this week rolled out version 3.1 of its Ultraseek Server, a search application for corporate intranets, enterprise portals and external Web sites. New to the application is support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents, as well as third party search access to documents hosted by Microsoft Exchange, a popular enterprise messaging, mail and […]

America’s largest Internet service provider, America Online Inc. Tuesday announced its membership has passed the 18 million mark. The climb from 17 million and 18 million members took only 125 days. Over the past year, the service has added more than 5 million members. Member retention also continues to improve, the company said. The company’s […]

Directory site InfoSpace.com Monday acquired INEX Corp., a provider storefront building resources, in a stock deal worth about $37.5 million. InfoSpace will exchange 900,000 shares of common stock for all of INEX’s outstanding shares, warrants and options. The acquisition is expected to be completed in September. INEX offers Internet commerce applications for merchants to build, […]

In an effort to enhance its network offerings, Lucent Technologies Friday acquired Xedia Corp., a developer of Internet access routers for wide area networks, in a stock deal worth approximately $246 million. Lucent will exchange all outstanding shares of Xedia for about 3.86 million shares of its stock. Lucent expects the transaction to be completed […]

Intuit Inc., maker of the popular Quicken and Turbo Tax finance software, is buying SecureTax.com, a provider of Web-based tax preparation and filing services. All of SecureTax.com’s operations will be folded into Intuit’s tax division. No other terms of the acquisition, announced late Thursday, were disclosed. The acquisition was made to strengthen Intuit’s position as […]

Market research company Harris Interactive Wednesday filed a lawsuit against competitor Greenfield Online charging it with unfair competition, defamation and disparagement. The Rochester, N.Y.-based firm filed suit in the U.S. District Court for Western New York, claiming that Greenfield Online displays “false and misleading” content on its site by claiming to have the “world’s largest […]

Internet guide About.com, Inc. Wednesday signed a deal with Netscape Communications to be one of Netscape’s premier search providers. Under the terms of the agreement, Netscape will feature About.com as a premier search provider on its Net Search page. About.com will also be included as an automatic bookmark on the latest version of Netscape’s Communicator […]

Yahoo! Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday joined forces to develop an intranet service. The new offering aims to help corporations build “customized employee hubs that provide access to corporate e-services.” Corporate My Yahoo! will offer external and internal content and services that can be customized to specific companies. Users will have access to Yahoo!’s free […]

Digital communications firm Razorfish Inc. Tuesday extended its acquisition strategy by purchasing electronic commerce consulting firm i-Cube for an estimated $677 million. Each share of i-Cube will be exchanged for 0.875 shares of Razorfish. Cambridge, Mass.-based i-Cube will be absorbed by Razorfish, which is headquartered in New York City. The acquisition combines Razorfish’s Digital Change […]

Looking to tap into the growing handheld market, Discover Brokerage Monday introduced TradeRunner, an investing service designed to work with 3Com Palm III or IIIx. TradeRunner is made to offer many of the options associated with traditional Discover Brokerage trading. Features include the ability to: Buy or sell equities, mutual funds and options (excluding LEAPS) […]