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Hewlett Packard’s Shopping Village subidiary debuted Wednesday and announced that it entered into a two-year co-marketing agreement with online software retailer Beyond.com. HP Shopping Village is Hewlett Packard’s new e-commerce area, which offers customers HP computer hardware and with Wedenesday’s agreement, software from Beyond.com. Beyond.com’s software inventory features an estimated 48,000 titles. Under terms of […]

CyberCash Inc. said it will offer its InstaBuy one-click shopping service to thousands of existing customers as an integral part of its CashRegister service. The company recently released an updated merchant connectivity kit that allows merchants to use both services. The CashRegister service allows merchants to accept secure payments from the Internet, fax or telephone […]

Excite@Home Wednesday inked a deal with electronics retailer Circuit City to bring Excite@Home’s high-speed cable Internet service to consumers. Circuit City will soon begin to sell the @Home Cable Internet Pre-Installation Kit in an initial group of its retail stores, and will bring the product to additional stores in the next year. The retailer will […]

ebates.com has launched as a shopping portal that offers consumers cash rebates of up to 25 percent on their purchases. The company says shoppers can receive rebates on purchases from well-known sites such as Amazon.com, CDnow, Reel.com, Dell Computer, Beyond.com and eToys. ebates.com takes advantage of e-commerce affiliate programs to earn cash rebates, which are […]

Fry Multimedia, which creates and hosts e-commerce sites for such clients as 1-800-Flowers.com, Crate & Barrel, Eddie Bauer and Staples, said it has received venture capital funding from Boston-based Summit Partners. Under the terms of the agreement, Summit acquires a minority stake in Fry Multimedia and one seat on the company’s board of directors. Although […]

OfficeMax Inc. has launched international Web sites in Japan and Mexico, and plans to launch a third site for Brazil in the coming year. All the sites are in native languages. Michael Feuer, OfficeMax’s chairman and chief executive officer said: “These international Web site launches exemplify OfficeMax and its joint venture partners’ dedication to becoming […]

Affinia launched an e-commerce service that lets operators of small targeted content sites, personal homepages and online communities set up a “storefront” filled with products their site visitors are most interested in buying. The service, called the Affinia Commerce Network, allows small site operators to select relevant items from a database of products drawn from […]

One out of every four dollars spent on U.S. company Web initiatives in 1998 was spent on intranets, amounting to $10.9 billion, according to a new study by International Data Corp. The study, entitled, “The IDC Intranet Fact Book: First Half 1999,” said more than half of larger U.S. organizations had intranets in place by […]

Bright Light Technologies Monday claimed to have created the one thing we all want — anti-spam in our e-mail accounts — and now plans to bring the service to the masses. The e-mail services company Monday rolled out its free Bright Mail service to consumers, offering a means of eliminating spam from inboxes. The service […]

iCanBuy.com signed agreements to provide e-commerce services to three sites oriented toward kids and teens: Headbone.com, Teens.Coolshopping.com and Teen.com. “Before iCanBuy.com, the Internet was like getting dropped off at the mall without any cash,” said R. Paul Herman, CEO and co-founder of iCanBuy.com. “We’re thrilled to enable teens and kids to access safe, online shopping […]

Leisureplanet Holdings Ltd. and Leisureplanet, an Internet travel services provider that is 81 percent-owned by Leisureplanet Holdings, signed a joint venture agreement with Intercommerce Trading LLC of New York, to create Hotelsupplygroup.com, an online B-to-B hotel supply company. The joint venture has entered into a three-year agreement with Leisureplanet for access to its online hotel […]

yourPharmacy.com Inc., a new online pharmacy and consumer drug and healthcare information operation, signed a sponsor deal with Time Inc. New Media. yourPharmacy.com will be the exclusive online pharmacy sponsor for Time Inc. New Media health sites including “Ask Dr. Weil”, “Bernie Siegel, MD”, “Dr. Ruth Westheimer” and other as yet unannounced health-oriented sites. Financial […]