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Shop One Inc. this week launched Shoplasvegas1.com, one of several big city themed e-commerce sites that it plans to designed and maintain. Powered by Buildpage.com shopping cart technology (a product of Alsoft MicroSolutions, also of Las Vegas), the Shoplasvegas1.com mall site features original graphics, secure ordering capabilities and products from local merchants in Las Vegas […]

Auto retailer AutoNation Inc. launched AutoNationDirect.com, a virtual dealership offering one-price, no-haggle pricing. AutoNationDirect.com will combine America’s most extensive inventory of new and used vehicles with the Internet’s most comprehensive package of automotive shopping tools. Every vehicle on AutoNationDirect.com will be sold in a one-low-price, no-haggle atmosphere. The company said the site will offer a […]

Excite@Home Wednesday launched Excite Assistant, an application which appears as a small window on the desktop and automatically updates personalized content without relying on a Web browser. The Excite Assistant automically recognizes the user when the application is launched. If a user opts for personalized content, it appears automatically in the desktop application. “With Excite […]

Metromedia Fiber Network Inc., which is building fiber optic networks in many of the nation’s largest markets, Wednesday purchased business Internet provider AboveNet Communications Inc. in a stock deal worth almost $1.65 billion. The deal, which has been approved by both companies boards of directors, will give AboveNet shareholders 1.175 shares of Metromedia Class A […]

In a play to the booming online prescription market, pharmacy chain store Rite Aid Corp. and vitamin retailer General Nutrition Centers, Inc., (GNC), Tuesday partnered with drugstore.com to offer prescription delivery and various health and wellness products. The three companies signed 10-year agreements which outline plans to offer customers online prescription drug order services, with […]

Montreal-based Webfin.com, a financial and investment portal, has agreed to be acquired by Planet411.com an electronic business service provider and virtual city creator. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move “will provide our introductory virtual city of Montreal with an immediate sticky audience, advertising revenues and high-quality content,” said Stephane Chouinard, founder of Planet411.com. Webfin.com […]

Softshare delivered ecSuite, a suite of e-commerce products that provide a range of solutions addressing the needs of organizations from the small, home-based business to the large enterprise. Softshare’s ecSuite provides a total Internet e-commerce environment and, when combined with the Softshare Network, a traditional EDI solution, the company said. The entry-level product for the […]

ChinaMallUSA.com Inc., an e-commerce company that facilitates trade between the United States and China, formed an alliance with China’s People’s Daily Online Edition to promote the development of e-commerce in China. People’s Daily Online was launched in January 1997 by the People’s Daily, the largest circulation newspaper in China. The People’s Daily Online Edition, which […]

Ryan Jacob, portfolio manager of the Internet Fund, which has risen 272 percent over the past year, may be leaving now that a deal to sell the fund has fallen through. One of the fund’s founders, Peter Doyle, told TheStreet.com late Monday Jacob wants to take some time to decide what his future role will […]

Transparent Language Inc. Monday launched FreeTranslation.com, a free Web site which offers translation services from English to Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, as well as to English from Spanish, French and German. Users can obtain content summaries of text or Web pages within seconds, according to the company. FreeTranslation.com delivers the service using the […]

Following two lawsuits against online stamp service rivals, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division has launched an inquiry into anticompetitive conduct by postage meter company Pitney Bowes. Pitney and Stamps.com late last week were served a civil investigative demand for documentation in several areas, regarding possible “exclusionary conduct by a monopolist aimed at interfering with […]

As a result of last week’s hiring of Inktomi Corp. to provide its search functions, America Online, Inc. is testing a new search engine that may replace keyword searches with more comprehensive functions throughout AOL and its properties. According to published reports, the two firms are working together to update AOL’s search after the portal […]