Elizabeth Clampet

Online auctioneer eBay Inc. this week announced two acquisitions which will speed the time it takes to settle person-to-person transactions and add a high-margin line to its offerings. eBay late Tuesday announced it had purchased Billpoint Inc., which facilitates person-to-person credit card payment over the Internet, as well as Kruse International, an auctioneer of collector […]

Researchers at Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that they have licensed technology from Xerox Corp. which it will use in a new technology that will make books viewable online. WebBooks is an application designed to create virtual pages in 3-D that Internet users can handle as if they were part of a real book. The WebBooks […]

AT&T knows firsthand how quickly the digital music scene is changing — more than half the employees who were working on the company’s A2B digital music download service are defecting to another firm. The New York Times reports that 14 of the 26 employees involved with AT&T’s music initiative have left to join Reciprocal Inc., […]

Direct marketer FreeShop.com, Inc. Monday acquired CatalogSite.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CatalogSite.com, subsidiary of Commonsite, LLC., provides users with links to hundreds of catalogs in a variety of categories. Under terms of the agreement, FreeShop will absorb all CatalogSite employees into its operations, and content from CatalogSite is set to be integrated […]

Following its unsuccessful attempt to merge with portal Lycos, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch Inc. wasted no time in securing the acquisition of another Internet firm, Match.com, in a $50 million stock deal. Ticketmaster-CitySearch Monday purchased the online matchmaking service, which is a division of Cendant Corp. Cendant said it agreed to sell Match.com for about $50 million […]

One week after an Indiana judge ruled that Network Solutions was exempt from antitrust liability, the domain name registrar won a lawsuit that accused it of charging fees that were unconstitutional. A panel made up of three circuit court of appeals judges unanimously agreed that Network Solutions has the right to charge an “intellectual infrastructure” […]

In an effort to provide comprehensive travel services from one location, retailer SkyMall Inc. Friday announced plans to launch a new portal site, skymalltravel.com, with the help of other players in the travel industry. The site is scheduled to launch in July, and will feature co-branded content from partners TRIP.com, MapQuest, ontheroad.com, Frequent Flyer Services […]

Yahoo! Inc. Thursday teamed with TIBCO Software Inc. to launch Corporate My Yahoo!, a customizable intranet portal. Corporate My Yahoo! allows users to personalize their Web experience with updated industry-specific news, financial information, local weather reports and sports. Its start page is designed to be co-branded with a client’s corporate identity or logo consistent with […]

Multimedia firm 8×8 Inc. Thursday acquired Odisei S.A., a French developer of Internet protocol telephony software, in a stock deal worth about $13 million. Under the terms of the agreement, 8×8 intends to issue up to 2.9 million common shares of its stock in exchange for all of the outstanding shares of Odisei capital stock, […]

HotOffice Technologies Inc. Wednesday released version 2.0 of its HotOffice Web-based intranet service, designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. New features of version 2.0 include a Web-based group calendar, group contact manager, outbound faxing over the Web and a Web site creation tool. The suite is part of HotOffice’s product line designed specifically for small […]

Web directory Looksmart Wednesday acquired PM Media Inc., an Internet talk radio company, with the intention of jumping into the Internet radio game. No financial specifics of the acquisition were disclosed, but Looksmart said it plans to incorporate PM Media’s radio programming, WorldWideWeb Radio, into its site later this month. WorldWideWeb Radio is a nationally […]

MCI WorldCom Tuesday unveiled a new service designed to allow corporations to run applications over IP-based virtual private networks. Called UUsecure and run by subsidiary UUNET, the service will offer comprehensive service level agreements, built-in encryption, bandwidth prioritization and around-the-clock centralized network management and monitoring services on a global scale. It will include dial and […]