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PortalPlayer Inc., a supplier of solutions for delivering open and secure digital media via the Internet, Friday added a distribution partner in Japan. Macnica will distribute the Tango Digital Media Player/Recorder platform, which PortalPlayer introduced this week. “As both a technology provider and development partner to its own customers, Macnica enhances our own strategy to […]

Office supply retailer Staples.com signed new strategic agreements with 10 small-business service providers. Housed in the Staples.com Business Services area, the partners are BizBuySell, Click Tactics, Dun & Bradstreet (provided by Telebase), Innovyx, Learn2.com, MergerNetwork, MyProspects, OnTimeAuditor, Pre-Paid Legal Services and Zoomerang. “With legal and technology, sales and marketing service providers and more, Staples.com Business […]

Unified solutions provider BroadStreet Communications Thursday received $62 million equity investment infusion from Frontenac Company, Boston Ventures, Catalyst Investors and its founding management team. BroadStreet intends to put the money to work launching its broadband technology platform which will deliver an integrated suite of business communication services including local and long-distance voice, high-speed data, Internet, […]

LabMorgan, the e-finance unit of J.P. Morgan, acquired an unspecified equity interest in New York e-business incubator Iron Street Labs through a direct capital investment. As part of the agreement, Iron Street Labs will refer entrepreneurs with promising ideas in e-finance to LabMorgan, offering the first right to invest and leveraging the unit’s focus on […]

New Edge Networks Inc. this week extended its wholesale broadband access services to 200 select markets in the U.S. The digital subscriber line wholesaler intends to expand its nationwide network to more than 300 operation locations in 18 states this year. The company is working to complete its network totaling DSL access from 750 locations […]

Vancouver’s GlobalMedia.com Thursday announced it has penned a deal with OnRadio.com to purchase contractual relationships with 212 radio stations. Under the terms of the transaction, GlobalMedia will pay $500,000 in cash and issue up to 1,697,619 shares, valued at upwards of $7 million, to acquire all of OnRadio’s assignable contracts for Internet services with terrestrial […]

Portal management specialist Netegrity Inc. Wednesday joined technologies with Vignette Corp. to provide companies with new portal infrastructure required to provide secure content to their customers, partners and employees. The combination of Netegrity’s SiteMinder e-commerce infrastructure solution for secure portal management and Vignette’s V/5 E-business Platform will make it possible for Vignette customers to develop […]

In the latest indication that online promotions are a must-have capability for advertising firms, L90 Tuesday allied with ePrize to offer the company’s promotions and sweepstakes programs to its customers. The deal calls for L90 to use ePrize’s sweepstakes programs in tandem with its online advertising programs, and for ePrize to refer clients to L90 […]

OneMain.com and Streetmail.com Inc. Tuesday partnered to deliver local content to its 762,000 customers from Streetmail’s weekly e-mail newsletters. Both companies said the goal was to increase local news and other content delivered to small cities and rural communities throughout the U.S. The deal also represents Streetmail’s largest distribution agreement to date with a national […]

Software firm Brience Inc. Tuesday bought mobile solution specialist Data on Air Inc. for an undisclosed amount. For the last five years, Data on Air has served as an outsourcing service provider of a wide array of Internet and intranet solutions to wireless carriers in the U.S. and Latin America. With the deal, Brience expands […]

Internet access facilitator 1stUp.com Corp. Tuesday made its free dial-up service Macintosh-compatible and is available for downloading from its AltaVista Inc. and Lycos Inc. Web portal partners. The service offering marks one of the largest distribution efforts to date of free Macintosh Internet access in the U.S. The CMGI Inc. subsidiary is capable of serving […]

As pay-for-ad-viewing player AllAdvantage.com prepares to go public, it’s raising the ire of members in the US, by reducing the maximum amount of money it will pay to users per month. Rather than the 50 cents per hour, with a maximum of 25 hours a month, that the company formerly paid, AllAdvantage.com is reducing the […]