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In a strategic play designed to improve its existing services, financial news Web site TheStreet.com (NASDAQ:TSCM) Monday lured investments from a well-known technology executive and a portal operator. The company sold a 5% stake of its company to Paul Allen’s Vulcan Ventures and Web-site operator Go2Net (NASDAQ:GNET) for $7.5 million in cash. As a part […]

In a strategic play designed to improve its existing services, financial news Web site TheStreet.com Monday lured investments from a well-known technology executive and a portal operator. The company sold a 5% stake of its company to Paul Allen’s Vulcan Ventures and Web-site operator Go2Net for $7.5 million in cash. As a part of the […]

E-commerce transaction services company CyberSource Corp. signed a product integration and marketing agreement with Art Technology Group , a provider of CRM and e-commerce products and services. The agreement extends CyberSource’s existing relationship with ATG and will result in a “highly integrated” Internet commerce solution set for both B2B and B2C customers, the companies said. […]

Intraco Systems Inc. is contributing its technical expertise to the marketing efforts of the InternetCoast. Intraco has voice-enabled key content from the InternetCoast Web site including the stock quotes page and the “About Us” section, which details the vision and mission of the InternetCoast organization. This site content is now accessible to anyone with a […]

Mediapassage.com and Broadcastspots.com have announced a merger of their two companies. The announcement was made jointly by Gilbert Scherer, Chairman and CEO of Mediapassage.com and Jeffrey Trumper, President and CEO of Broadcastspots.com. Seattle’s Mediapassage.com is an infrastructure e-services provider for end-to-end processing of ad media Transactions. Since its inception in 1997, the company has processed […]

U.S Marketer.com announced Monday that it has launched a site which aims to become a one-stop shop for people seeking to buy or sell marketing-related services or products. “We offer an efficient, cost-effective solution to the universal challenge facing every marketer: finding the right supplier, at the right time, at the right price,” said Martin […]

The Internet is now such an integral part of the life of college students that more than 80 percent have made an online purchase and 31 percent describe themselves as “Internet dependent,” according to a new study. The new Pulsefinder On-Campus Market Study, a joint project by Greenfield Online and YouthStream Media Networks , also […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] According to a study published by the Leipzig mediaoffice.net, 154 professional Internet newsletters offering advertisements exist for the German-speaking market. They are seen by 3.3 million users. The newsletters have an average of 24,000 subscribers. According to the study, the subscribers are primarily interested in finances and the stock market, followed by subjects […]

With the tremendous growth of software and Internet companies in the South Sound, the Washington Software Alliance will be launching a South Sound chapter. The demand for a new chapter arose from industry interest, as many prominent software and dotcom executives approached the WSA. Since that time, industry execs have been working hard in conjunction […]

Vancouver, B.C.’s Merendon International, Inc. has announced that the company has closed its financing, with a private placement of US$1.78 million. The financing was comprised of 1.78 million units at US$1.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of the Company’s common stock and two warrants. The warrants entitle the holder to purchase […]

Anti-spam organization Mail Abuse Prevention System plans to fight a lawsuit filed this week by online market researcher Harris Interactive Inc. The suit seeks to stop Microsoft, AOL and other ISPs from using MAPS “Realtime Black Hole” list to block its e-mail. Harris alleges that Internet service providers which subscribe to MAP’s Realtime Blackhole List […]

Traditional energy companies, after initially losing ground to dot com competitors, are beginning to fight back online with top management involvement and heavy resource commitments, says a new industry study. The survey by energy industry advisory firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) predicts that the industry “will begin to drift apart in 2002” with […]