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Online mall operator iChargeit Inc. said it will soon launch iBarterit.com, an e-commerce bartering system for business-to-business transactions. iBarterit.com will enable businesses to barter goods and/or services on the iChargeit.com site in exchange for selected products available in the iChargeit Cybermall or other items available from iBarterit.com. The “seller” will possess the option, at the […]

Davox Corp. a developer of customer-contact solutions, and eGain Communications Corp., provider of customer service infrastructure for e-commerce, signed a joint marketing and product integration pact. The companies agreed to jointly market, sell and integrate eGain’s real-time Web collaboration and e-mail management solutions with Davox’s customer contact telephony capabilities. The alliance will enable customer contact […]

Rare Medium Inc., a subsidiary of Internet solutions firm Rare Medium Group Inc., signed a definitive merger agreement with Detroit-based GlobalLink New Media. Financial terms were not disclosed. Suresh V. Mathews, president, and chief operating officer of Rare Medium Inc., said that “the addition of GlobalLink New Media, a leading Internet business solutions company, not […]

ITPARADE Inc. launched a business-to-business online auction featuring high-end, previously-owned and refurbished computer equipment. The company said that more than 100,000 items, ranging from mainframes and midranges to PCs will be available to the IT community from the 250+ members of the ITPARADE dealer network. Product listings in the auction are valued in excess of […]

Singapore will set up an e-commerce institute as early as the first quarter next year to train more manpower to meet future industry demand, a member of parliament said this week. The institute will be run by non-profit organization CommerceNet Singapore Ltd. The move is part of the findings of a new study, carried out […]

An upcoming interactive survey of online shoppers signals disappointing news for e-tailers: 40 percent of shoppers could not name an online retailer in 12 out of 13 e-tail categories. The poll results will be published Tuesday in a Harris Interactive report, ecommercePulse. The study of business-to-consumer purchasing trends is based on interviews with 103,127 e-consumers […]

internet.com Corp., publisher of InternetNews.com, Thursday announced that its initial public offering of 3.4 million shares of common stock has been priced at an offering price of $14 per share. Underwriters are U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., William Blair & Co. and DLJdirect Inc. The price was raised from its initial range of $10-$12 per […]

Direct response retailer HotSocket Inc. named US Interactive founder and former CEO Larry Smith to its board of advisers. HotSocket offers products directly to consumers in dedicated online direct response campaigns, and tracks performance for each product that it sells. The company says its proprietary technology platform allows it to learn from every consumer interaction, […]

Dollardays.com has launched with the intention of offering wholesale retail goods to independent retailers, flea market vendors, home-based businesses and small businesses. The site offers free membership and claims to stock more than 100,000 products. Dollardays.com said it offers an independent retailer the ability to not only order as little as one case of a […]

MyWeb Inc.com Thursday launched its bundled Internet service in China, bringing set-top box Internet access linked to the company’s Chinese-language portal, MyWeb Online China. The move follows a recent deal with Beijing Post and Telegraph to bring 200,000 MyWeb set-top box sets into the Beijing market this year. The company expects MyWeb to succeed in […]

A San Franciso Public Utilities Committee may take steps to require AT&T Corp. open access to its Tele-Communications Inc. cable network in the Bay Area. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal by city staff that would have granted AT&T a monopoly in the major metropolitan market. The committee did not accept AT&T’s promise […]

In a play targeting individual investors, online investment research firm Multex.com, Inc. Wednesday bought finance content provider Market Guide Inc. in a stock deal worth $162.4 million Market Guide shareholders will receive one Multex.com share for each outstanding share of Market Guide, or about 5.6 million million shares. Market Guide expects to list Multex.com’s investment […]