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Listen.com Monday grabbed a $70 million equity investment led by crossover fund Attractor Ventures, European venture capital fund Index Ventures and many of Listen.com’s prior investors. The new investment follows investments made by five major music labels in Listen.com. The equity will be used to fuel three areas key to Listen.com’s continued growth: product development, […]

E-businesses service company BigStep.com last week launched its online resource center with 25 diverse partners. San Francisco, Calif.-based BigStep.com is now linked with companies such as Stamps.com, ADP, NetLedger.com, Keen.com and ineed.com, forming an online resource center to offer its customers and increased array of services including financial, administration, lead generation and purchasing. “The ASP […]

NetLedger, provider of accounting solutions for small businesses, continued its partnership rampage when it teamed up last week with Internet mailing and shipping service provider Stamps.com to secure its role in the online postage and shipping services market. “Our partnership with Stamps.com further links the essential elements involved in the operation of small businesses,” said […]

ereorg.com Inc. formed a partnership with financial services firm Emergent Enterprises to offer global online trading for emerging markets debt. The companies said they will “target the $730 billion market for emerging markets loans and less liquid bonds.” The ereorg system is an online marketplace that enables users to buy and sell debt in the […]

Internet stocks finished higher but retreated from their mid-day levels. Adding momentum to the Net space were Homestore.com, eBay, and Yahoo!. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index was up 16.63, or 1.56 percent, to 1,080.27, the Nasdaq Composite rose 22.42 to 4963.03, and the Dow Jones industrial average slipped 7.14 to 11,112.72. Homestore.com (HOMS) jumped 12-3/16 to […]

Provider of Web-based time sheets, expense and project management softwareShift Technologies Inc. yesterday announced that it can now offer its flagship product, OnlineTimeSheet.com, to mobile consumers through their Palm Pilots. Based on the ASP model, OnlineTimeSheets.com is a rentable service with no implementation or maintenance fees for Palm Pilot users. The service costs $10 per […]

Universal Pictures and America Online Inc. this week struck a deal to promote movies and sell tickets online. AOL’s (AOL) deal is the latest in a series of plays made by the Internet service provider, which recently surpassed 22 million registered members. After spending years working to push the online envelope, the giant has inked […]

Offline it’s nice to have everything in one place when we buy things or do research. Hence, the Wal-Marts and libraries of the world. We like to find our products and resources in one place, rather than spend our time driving all around looking to find those things. The Internet acts as the Wal-Mart of […]

Asynchrony.com Inc. launched the beta version of a new virtual online community that gives software developers the opportunity to collaborate via the Internet and profit from the software they develop. Software developers from around the globe can meet each other, initiate software projects and form teams that will share in the revenues of the products […]

In a move to dampen speculator frenzy that Britain’s biggest ISP – Freeserve – was about to be sold off its majority owner, high street retail giant Dixons, Friday issued a statement flatly denying any such plans. Freeserve was floated on the Stock Market last summer and rumours that it was about to be sold […]

SelfCare.com, a health and wellness e-commerce site for women and their families, raised $80 million in new equity funding (including the value of in-kind services.) This latest round of funding includes cash investments and in-kind services from new investors including: NBC, NBCi, ValueVision, Women.com and MPM Asset Management. also participating are prior investors Brentwood Associates, […]

StarMedia Network Inc., the Internet media company focused on Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences, signed a deal with Ericsson to offer combined mobile Internet solutions to Latin American wireless carriers. The partnership leverages StarMedia Mobile’s wireless Internet products and customized content, and Ericsson’s mobile Internet solutions, applications and devices. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Ericsson is […]