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EDS Friday entered a 10-year, $800 million deal with Telecom New Zealand to supply IT services. The company also signed a deal with Microsoft to develop and deliver electronic business solutions. The contract represents the largest technology services ever signed in New Zealand. Under terms of the deal, Telecom New Zealand will take a stake […]

Andromedia Inc. delivered LikeMinds Personalization Server 3.0, an update to its e-commerce optimization app. The company said the new version “makes the most of every click” by utilizing virtually any source of consumer behavior data — online or off-line, implicit or explicit, real-time or historical, transactional or navigational — to personalize every interaction from the […]

The Chase Manhattan Bank said it plans to launch an Internet shopping site in conjunction with ShopNow.com Inc., an Internet shopping network. As part of the agreement, Chase will be a preferred provider of financial services for ShopNow.com, offering co-branded ShopNow.com and Chase credit cards, merchant services and consumer services. ShopNow.com will develop an exclusive […]

Joining the growing interest in wireless communication, e-mail provider USA.NET Friday plans to deliver its e-mail service to wireless phone users via the Phone.com UP.Browser microbrowser. Users can access, screen and respond e-mail messages from a wireless, with folder, filter and multimedia attachment features also included in the offering. “Customers want access to all types […]

CBS Corp. is reportedly planning a new Web strategy that could launch by the fall. According to published reports, the initiative dubbed “Project Bulldog” will be home to the growing line of Web properties in which the network has stakes. They include SportsLine and Medscape.com. The company also operates the CBS MarketWatch site. The company […]

Adding another wheel to the ISP’s pursuit of regional growth plans, Egyptian conglomerate Orascom Telecom is to take a 51 percent stake in Link Egypt. Link Egypt is an ISP and a developer and integrator of Internet solutions with operations in Egypt and Dubai, UAE. The company has delivered corporate Internet solutions to Citibank and […]

CyberBills announced a co-branding agreement with XOOM.com. Inc. to make its StatusFactory.com Internet-based bill management service available to XOOM.com’s nearly nine million members. XOOM.com is the first community site to offer its members access to CyberBills’ StatusFactory.com, an online bill presentment and payment service that allows consumers to have a complete bill management process without […]

Startup epinions.com said it has raised $8 million in first round funding from August Capital and Benchmark Capital to build a broad-based shopping guide powered by consumer opinions. Led by a team of Internet veterans from @Home, Netscape and Yahoo!, epinions.com is expected to launch in August. The concept is based on the power of […]

LibertyOne Thursday acquired the exclusive right to bring American auctioneer uBid into the Australia and New Zealand markets, as well as the option to establish uBid-powered auction sites in nine other Asian Pacific countries. The Australian version of uBid model will focus on business-to-consumer and business-to-business clients. uBid will not be competing directly with the […]

The month of June saw Amazon.com regain its position as king of the e-commerce jungle, once again ranking number one as most popular shopping site, according to results released this week by Internet market researchers PC Data Inc. Amazon bested No. 2 e-tailer eBay, which unseated the online bookseller back in May, when it grabbed […]

HardwareStreet.com, an online retailer of more than 100,000 brand-name computer products and accessories for business and consumers, completed a private placement for $5.5 million in convertible debentures. The company said it will use the funds to execute a comprehensive strategic business plan and to prepare for an IPO later this year. BlueStone Capital Investment acted […]

AT&T is partnering with the NAACP to create tech centers in 20 cities aimed at providing computer training and Internet seminars for minority group members. The move is intended to help bridge the gap between white people and blacks and Hispanics in technical savvy and access to the Internet. “The technological segregation known as the […]