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Consumer product information and shopping resource Productopia entered a strategic alliance with home and real estate network Homestore.com Inc. to provide data to Homestore.com’s portal sites. Productopia’s ‘Picks and Buying Tips’ in more than 500 product categories – as well as links to editorial content on hundreds of other home-related items – will be accessible […]

FutureLink Corp. was all the buzz yesterday at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas, making a handful of announcements regarding its various reseller partnerships, its ASP offerings and its channel partner programs. FutureLink Corp (FTRL) announced yesterday it signed a letter of intent with Merisel, Inc (MSEL) to provide U.S. resellers with an ASP offering through Merisel’s […]

B2B collaborative solutions provider Intraspect Software, Inc. today announced it secured $26 million in mezzanine funding. Leading the round was Bay Partners. Additional funding came from corporate investors LabMorgan, the e-finance unit of J.P. Morgan, WPP Group, KPMG, Europe-based Protigi and existing investors that include AVI Capital, Telos Venture Capital, RWI Group, Sand Hill Financial, […]

Intranets.com surpassed 200,000 registered sites this week, reaching the milestone less than nine months since launching its free, online business applications. The Web desktop for small businesses and organizations doubled its user base less than three months since recording 100,000 registered sites, which lends creedence to studies that claim the intranet sector is exploding. Thus […]

Internet media company Click2Asia Inc., and Centerseat Inc., a vertically integrated digital media firm, Tuesday announced the launch of a co-branded entertainment Web site for the Asian market. The Click2Asia Webcast will offer Click2Asia.com members the opportunity to view programs selected from Centerseat’s menu of entertainment content and commerce options. In addition to providing original […]

Level 3 Communications Inc. Tuesday introduced a laser-based global wavelength service designed to reduce networks costs and accelerate time to market for Internet service providers and telecommunications carriers. Level 3’s wavelength service offers bandwidth capacity on a per dollar basis to improve provisioning times, so service providers can provide clients enhanced delivery data, video and […]

Start-up company Redband Broadcasting Tuesday secured $17 million in first-round funding from Sony Music Entertainment and VantagePoint Venture Partners. The company will invest the capital in marketing, talent and partnerships. The company is spin-off of LookSmart, a provider of Internet search infrastructure, which will retain an equity stake in the company. Redband produces, aggregates and […]

B2B mobile Internet company AvantoGo, Inc. yesterday announced an extension in its proven AvantGo Enterprise solutions. As the first hosted, Internet-based service for mobilizing applications and content, AvantGo Enterprise Online is a proven, enterprise-class solution for mobile-engaging complex applications rather than something that delivers simple Web site pages to WAP devices. AvantGo also announced that […]

Odigo Inc., Prodigy Communications Corp. Tuesday launched an all new instant messaging service available to Prodigy members and non-members alike, dubbed PIM. With radar-like search for other users the Prodigy Web interface looks for users seeking to create and instant PIM community. Based on software developed by Odigo, users may build real-time IM groups on […]

International data and telecommunications company Telia and developer of Games-on-Demand (AoD) software for telecom and broadband service providers Exent Technologies yesterday announced a partnership to deliver Telia’s Games on Demand service. This partnership allows Telia to take advantage of Exent’s technology and offer its customers secure delivery of any Windows based applications and games as […]

Internet marketer Engage Inc. and Akamai Technologies Inc., a streaming media provider, Monday announced they will unite to deliver on-line content, starting with advertisements and marketing campaigns. Under the agreement, Engage will purchase Akamai content delivery services built upon the EdgeAdvantage platform and use them to deliver rich media ads for Engage’s on-line media network […]

Spinway Inc. Monday reported that its co-branded free Internet services topped 2 million registered subscribers. In the four and a half months since it first launched services, Spinway rapidly established advertising network partnerships with offline brand leaders to co-brand their free Internet services. Spinway co-brands advertising supported free Internet access for partners, which include Kmart’s […]