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Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports and Consumer Reports Online, and merchant rating site BizRate.com signed a deal to include the latter’s ratings and research on Consumer Reports Online and in Consumer Reports magazine. The agreement brings together two impartial and independent research organizations to provide online shoppers with e-commerce advice. Financial arrangements were not […]

Visa U.S.A. and CyberSource Corp. Wednesday announced they are co-developing and marketing an e-commerce fraud screening solution. Dubbed the CyberSource Internet Fraud Screen enhanced by Visa, it is based on CyberSource’s existing CyberSource Internet Fraud Screen and will incorporate Visa’s fraud modeling capabilities with CyberSource’s Internet fraud reduction offering and historical transaction database. The companies […]

University Textbooks has launched as another entry in the online campus textbook wars, offering up to 40 percent off and direct delivery to the house/dorm room. UTbooks.com said it offers students multiple ways to pay for their books, including personal or business checks. If the bookstores on their campus will not buy back their old […]

PrintBid.com, an online e-commerce marketplace for print buyers, commercial printers and suppliers to the printing industry, launched PaperDeals.com, a global auction marketplace for the $200 billion paper industry. Leveraging the parent company’s audience of commercial printers, thousands of companies were pre-registered for immediate access, along with many of the top name paper mills, distributors, converters, […]

While the titans of the computer industry are fighting to see who can give away the most instant messaging products for free, a small software developer is actually selling instant messaging software. Abbott Systems said it is banking on the idea that instant messaging has real business applications and that businesses will need, and pay […]

iTurf Inc., a network of Web sites focused on Generation Y, is acquiring college hub OnTap.com in a deal valued at $18 million plus and will operate it as a subsidiary. iTurf will issue 1.6 million shares of its Class A common stock (it closed Friday at $12.625) to the selling shareholders in a tax-free […]

A new survey released Tuesday predicts e-tailers will see stellar results during the upcoming shopping season: the number of online holiday shoppers is expected to grow 25 percent, representing purchases worth $9.5 billion. The ecommercePulse Online Holiday ’99 survey conducted by Net researchers Harris Interactive polled more than 5000 respondents and found that: 77.6 percent […]

Network Solutions, Inc. Monday rolled out an application designed to allow Internet service providers and Web hosting firms to register domain names via its Registrar business. dot com ISP Tools is a customizable software application designed for companies that do not have their own registration systems but would like to register domain names. Designed as […]

The latest media player to support digital downloads debuted this week, this time from audio company Midisoft Corp. Midisoft’s Internet Media Player is a free, stand alone client for Windows based machines that allows users to play multiple Internet audio formats including Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3, and CD audio. The player is designed to […]

Microsoft Corp. worked quickly Monday to close a security hole that allowed anyone with Web access to view the e-mail of Hotmail users. Two Web sites, one in Sweden and the other in the United Kingdom, were allowing anyone who knew someone’s Hotmail user name free access to their e-mail account without knowing that user’s […]

ChinaMallUSA.com Inc., an e-commerce company focused on China, has backed out a 60 percent investment in New York-based SunTech Inc., which provides electronic securities trading facilities and information services for day traders. “We have revisited the investment in SunTech and decided that in order to focus on ChinaMall’s long-term strategy, it is in the company’s […]

Yahoo! users can take now take their musical talents onto the Internet with Yahoo! Open Mic, a collaboration with the Internet Underground Music Archive and Liquid Audio Inc. which gives musicians of all levels the opportunity to self publish and sell their own music online. Yahoo! Open Mic is part of Yahoo! Digital, a multimedia […]