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Dash.com, developer of a mobile shopping portal based on client-side software, said it has received $12.1 million in funding from AT&T Ventures, JP Morgan Investment Corp., Wasserstein Perella Ventures Inc. and Affinity Partners International. AT&T Ventures is the lead venture firm in the Series A Preferred Financing. Prior to this investment, Dash.com’s development had been […]

Vicinity Corp. said its Internet-based Maps and Business Finder services are now available in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Vicinity signed partnerships with Berlin-based Aperto Multimedia, a multimedia agency that supplies Internet solutions for internal and external corporate communications; the pan-European Icon MediaLab, a provider of digital communications solutions; and Kataweb, the […]

Music download site Liquid Audio went public Friday and investors interested in the new music distribution system sent its stock soaring, while indices were mixed at midday. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index slipped 4.02 at midday to 565.11, the Nasdaq Composite was down 2.72 to 2769.14 and the Dow Jones industrial average rose 21.21 to 11148.1. […]

The Reader’s Digest Association Inc. selected MessageMedia Inc. to provide services for its e-mail communications with customers and potential customers and its e-commerce database marketing. MessageMedia is a provider of e-mail-based customer relationship management and direct marketing services. MessageMedia will be responsible for supporting the management of Reader’s Digest’s e-mail list, providing technical services for […]

Hahn Automotive Warehouse Inc. launched iAutoparts.com, an online automotive parts store powered by the CCI/Triad e-commerce solution that features the ePartExpert electronic catalog. iAutoparts.com guides users through a logical search to ensure accurate automotive part selection. ePartExpert provides technical tips, parts specifications and suggestions for related parts. The site offers more than two million nationally […]

Yahoo! Germany is very much on the move again this week, with two mobile Internet service announcements in the last 24 hours. First, Yahoo! Germany and Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH (D2), Germany’s largest mobile communications service provider, teamed up to offer Internet services to D2 users. The deal marks the first Yahoo! Europe local venture in […]

A new study by the NEC Research Institute said that current search engines are accessing less than one quarter of the information on the Web. The study, published in this week’s Nature magazine, said that no search engine indexes more than 16 percent of the Web, and as more sites pop up, those numbers will […]

It’s a big day for search engine Direct Hit, which Thursday punched out search result deals with Microsoft Network (MSN), Lycos and Scandinavia Online (SOL). Direct Hit, which list results according to popularity rankings, will now be available to more than 30 million Netizens. The rankings are created by analyzing millions of previous Web searches. […]

Excite@Home and GO Network Wednesday both announced calendar services though the two companies’ respective Web sites in a play to the appeal of both personalization and practicality. Excite@Home Wednesday rolled out the Excite Planner, a free Internet-based organizer that can store and synchronize important calendar events, contacts, tasks and memos. “Excite Planner lets users keep […]

Stumpworld Systems Inc., which markets its Online Merchant software that enables small businesses to set-up shop online, signed a partnership deal with E-Commerce Exchange. The latter is a nationwide credit card processing company that provides transaction solutions for Internet entrepreneurs. The partnership integrates Online Merchant with QuickCommerce, E-Commerce Exchange’s transaction processing gateway and will create […]

A recently released study of 50 leading e-commerce sites points to dramatic but preventable losses suffered by e-tailers because they neglect to follow-up with consumers after a purchase is completed. E-commerce applications provider Rubic Inc. found that just 16 percent of the e-comm sites evaluated sent follow-up marketing offers to customers who purchased from their […]

Internet Security Systems (ISS) Tuesday rolled out an upgraded version of its RealSecure security application. RealSecure 3.1 is designed to automatically detect and respond to unauthorized network and computer systems activity. RealSecure identifies intrusions and responds in real time by recording the activity, sending instantaneous e-mail or pager alarms, reconfiguring network devices such as firewalls, […]