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According to an IAB-PricehouseCoopers study, France’s online advertising during the first half of this year is more than twice the total amount for 1998. Internet advertising brought FF 170 million ($27 million) in the six month period, divided by FF 65 million in the first quarter and FF 105 in the second. According to the […]

Ericsson Australia has teamed with Web search directory LookSmart to explore providing mobile Internet access to the Australian market. The agreement will see the companies collaborate to produce a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) category based directory. This strategy is aimed at bringing LookSmart’s directory of more than one million Web sites to the WAP environment. […]

China Merchandise Bank is partnering with Legend Corp., Netease.com, Newsina.com.cn, Sohu.com, and 8848.net to launch the first-time campaign on network life in China. Named “fly into new century and experience the excellent network life”, the campaign is designed to promote the process of e-commerce in China and improve peoples knowledge in what Internet will bring […]

Global telco player Cable & Wireless Monday agreed to sell its holdings in former Israeli telecom monopoly Bezeq for $630 million. Cable & Wireless will sell 4.9 percent of its interest in Bezeq to Zeevi Communications Holdings Ltd. The company has also agreed to grant the option for an additional purchase of 14.6 percent, pending […]

Industry heavyweight America Online Inc. Monday achieved a new milestone in its quest to bring the Internet to the masses. AOL’s worldwide membership base has exceeded 19 million, and AOL stated that it has added more than 5 million members in the past year. The Internet player credited increased acceptance of e-commerce and impact of […]

Gobbling up another country site in its quest to trade on a global arena, E*TRADE Group Inc. Monday bought its own licensee for the Nordic region. The company then turned around to launch two joint ventures for E*TRADE services in Norway and Denmark. The online brokerage will hold a majority interest in both new ventures […]

PurchasingCenter.com launched as a business-to-business portal focusing on what it calls “the highly fragmented, $187 billion industrial supplies market.” PurchasingCenter.com said it will provide maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) buyers in small and mid-sized companies with a source of content and commerce tools that will allow them to find suppliers and buy products more efficiently. […]

Catalog marketers expect to generate five percent of their sales on the Internet this year — more than double their online sales in 1998, according to a study released by the Direct Marketing Association (The DMA). The DMA State of the Catalog Industry Report: 1999 said that in 1998, the Internet accounted for just two […]

E-Commerce solutions company Art Technology Group Inc. (ATG) filed a statement with the SEC for a proposed public offering of 4.5 million shares of common stock. At the same time, the company reported revenues for the third quarter of 1999 increased to $8.1 million, up from $3.5 million in the comparable period in 1998. The […]

French business group Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) has created subsidiary PPR Interactive to propel the company into the e-commerce market. The new company has two missions in the e-business area: to develop cooperation between the different members of the group and to create new online offerings. PPR Interactive’s entire strategy will be placed online at its Noel […]

Office Depot Inc. entered into a strategic e-business relationship with PurchasePro.com and said it made an equity investment in the company. Under terms of the agreement, PurchasePro.com will be the recommended Web based business-to-business e-commerce solution to be mass marketed to Office Depot customers and clients. Office Depot will be featured as the exclusive preferred […]

Visual WebTools 3 from Pacific Web Works, Inc. is a collection of Web based tools designed to allow users to create and maintain a Web presence on the Internet. The tools are available on a subscription basis from the vendor, and once the user has established a Login ID and password they can use the […]