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AT&T WorldNet Service Wednesday debuted its co-branded Internet access program by signing-up a powerful foursome of firms. The WorldNet partnership program allows businesses to offer their customers full-featured dial-up services in affiliation with the AT&T Corp. Internet division. WorldNet forged co-branding agreements with Sam’s Club, Flooz.com, Toshiba America, and USA TODAY. Each dial-up partner has […]

Nine Silicon Valley ASPs decided its needs would be better addressed by forming a consortium catering to its North California counterparts. The Silicon Valley ASP Consortium was formed despite the existence of the ASP Industry Consortium, which has been a vocal member promoting ASP interests for years. The group says the forum will “focus its […]

American Express signed a deal with B2B e-commerce corporate meetings and events company StarCite Inc. that will let the financial services giant offer customized Web-based meeting sourcing and management tools to its customers. StarCite’s services will be provided through American Express One, a business unit of American Express Corporate Services that markets travel and related […]

With new business models emerging from the online world daily, many traditional sites have opted to investigate alternate revenue streams. Despite this fact, a great number still rely heavily on their advertisers for at least part of their income. The Rate Card Report and Ad Dimensions report, released this week by the AdRelevance division of […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] On Wednesday, the auction for German UMTS licenses in Mainz entered the 157th round with the highest bids topping DM 90 billion (US $42 billion). All six bidders each submitted offers for a “small” license consisting of two frequency packages. Theoretically, if no other companies or syndicates submit higher bids, the auction could […]

Applied Digital Solutions + WebNet Services, ClearWorks.net + Eagle Wireless, NewBridge Capital + SkateSurfSnow.com, Sabre + Gradient Solutions, Wine.com + Wineshopper.com  Sabre (TSG) acquires Gradient Solutions      *  Amount:         Undisclosed      *  Terms:            n/a      *  Premium:        n/a      *  Industry:        E-commerce enablers      *  Scorecard:      B-   FORT WORTH, […]

Bookseller Barnes & Noble.com launched its entry in the battle for student textbook dollars, launching a new Textbook Store that it says features “the largest selection of new and used textbooks available anywhere online.” The site offers books on everything from elementary accounting, marketing and the basic sciences to the most advanced texts in mathematics […]

QUALCOMM Inc.’s next release of its popular e-mail software is set to integrate real-time voice communications with text, at the click of a send button. Voice technology firm HearMe and QUALCOMM Tuesday struck a deal to integrate HearMe’s voice technology into the next release of its Eudora e-mail software. As a result of the agreement, […]

RMI.NET, Inc. Tuesday tapped into a top nationwide fiber backbone provider to allow high-speed transport for its connectivity and e-commerce services. The deal with Global Crossing Ltd. will cost RMI.NET $46 million over the next five years. The nationwide fiber network agreement connects RMI.NET to a solid SONET platform that allows the Colorado-based Internet service […]

Tacoma-based InsynQ, Inc. has announced a partnership with the Business Services Division of Global Crossing North America, Inc. which will allow InsynQ to bundle Global Crossing’s telecommunications products with its Web-based computing services and proprietary Internet appliance deployments. The terms of the partnership, which have just been disclosed, enable InsynQ to provide a broad range […]

Companies routinely outsource security applications for many of the same reasons they opt for working with application service providers — it’s a cost effectiveness means to assure a technically complex end. According to industry experts it costs three to five times as much to build an internal information technology team tasked with securing Internet-based applications, […]

OrderTrust Inc. and BroadVision Inc. inked a technology partnership deal that will link BroadVision One-To-One applications to the outsourced, order management services offered through the OrderTrust network, a community of more than 850 commerce trading partners. ” OrderTrust is committed to delivering services for retailers that don’t want to spend their own resources developing and […]