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Take one of the largest mergers in history and you might get a good day on Wall Street. That is what happened today as America Online and Time Warner merged in an all-stock combination valued at $350 billion. The value of the proposed deal and prospect for continued consolidation sent Internet issues considerably higher. internet.com’s […]

Heeding rumblings from clients about the clumsiness of multiple directory services, Nortel Networks and the Sun-Netscape Alliance Monday introduced a new directory solution for service providers. Designed to help Internet service providers and application service providers create new service bundles and manage them more efficiently, the solution is expected to provide a standards-based framework for […]

Online software and services provider Primus Monday acquired electronic sales solutions company 2order.com Inc. in a stock deal valued at $90 million. The strategic merger will enable Primus (PKSI) to deliver a complete e-service software solution — including sales, marketing and support — for the exploding business-to-business marketplace. Primus plans to add to its e-service […]

White Pine Software is shipping a new version of the MeetingPoint conference server with support for Red Hat Linux version 6.1. Version 4.0.2 of MeetingPoint increases the number of ports that can be supported per server, increasing the overall scalability for large-scale deployments. MeetingPoint provides a scalable solution for Internet service providers, applications service providers […]

Internet investors continued buying up shares late Friday and helped the tech-heavy ISDEX and Nasdaq recover from a three day plunge. Among the leading sectors were business-to-business and infrastructure. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index rose 52.41, or 6.67 percent, to 827.88, the Nasdaq Composite jumped 155.49 to 3882.62 and the Dow Jones industrial average gained 269.30 […]

Niku Corp. Friday delivered its eNiku 3.0 enterprise suite for Microsoft‘s SQL Server 7.0. The suite will allow the Microsoft (MSFT) server to help professional services organizations automate core business processes and connect to partners, customers and suppliers via a common Internet platform. Niku solutions target the needs of professional services organizations, including the following […]

Teradyne Inc.’s Web application testing software provider RSW Software and Art Technology Group Inc., developers of e-commerce and online personalization applications, signed a technology partnership. The said they will work together to develop and promote an automated testing and monitoring solution optimized for ATG’s Dynamo applications. The joint effort will enable ATG customers and partners […]

Sonicbox, Inc. has announced the acquisition of StreamQuest, developer of stand-alone streaming audio devices, which holds intellectual property and patent filings pertaining to Internet radio. The company also announced that StreamQuest’s founder, Jonathan Sass, has joined the Sonicbox team as vice president of Business Development. No other terms of the deal were disclosed. Some of […]

iMedium delivered two new products built upon its See!Commerce technology platform., which allows Internet viewers or customers to shop by clicking on an image. The new products are See!Catalog and See!Mail. Both are direct response applications that allow merchants and retailers to offer their customers an interactive shopping experience based upon scenes, photos or pictures […]

Forget $20 a month to surf the Internet. Now, in a battle for eyeballs, an increasing number of players are offering free Internet access. NetZero (NZRO), a free access provider, signed up more than 1 million “subscribers” (users might be the word here) in only about eight months. A leading Web portal, AltaVista, recently began […]

Germany’s biggest retailer, Metro AG, purchased a 51 percent controlling interest in Primus Online from a unit of its Swiss parent company and said it plans to expand its e- commerce business. Financial details were not disclosed. The stake was purchased from Switzerland’s BHS AG. Primus, according to Bloomberg News. Primus Online expects 1999 sales […]

Español.com, an online retailer for Spanish-speakers, released a survey that found high levels of language “indifference” or bilingualism among Hispanics. In fact, most survey respondents chose English over Spanish. Forty-one percent said they prefer English Web sites; only 8 percent of those surveyed said they prefer Spanish. However, 51 percent also indicated they are “indifferent” […]