InternetNews Staff

Online software firm Hypernix this week released Gooey, an online chat tool designed to allow surfers to communicate with others who are browsing the same site that they are. The company said that chat sessions can begin from within any site on the Web, and are not confined to predefined chat rooms. “It will change […]

Free Forum Network, a network of 17 free-offer sites published by VentureDirect Worldwide, will become the exclusive free offer store on Senior.com, an online community for people 50 and older. Under the agreement, offers from the Free Forum will be posted on Senior.com for its members. In addition, Free Forum will drive traffic to its […]

Furniture Brands International Inc. has decided to just say no to online marketing. The largest U.S. home furniture maker said it would not sell its products on the Internet and wouldn’t even do business with any company that doesn’t have a real showroom. The maker of Broyhill, Lane and Thomasville furniture said online retailers aren’t […]

America Online Inc. Tuesday acquired total ownership of Digital Marketing Services, Inc. (DMS), a marketing company in which it previously held a majority stake. DMS is a market research firm co-founded by AOL and the M/A/R/C Group, Inc. and serves as the exclusive provider of the AOL Rewards program, as well as online research brand […]

In line with its new Internet strategy, Informix International plans to launch two Web-enabled database solutions in the Indian subcontinent by the end of the next quarter. The launch of these two products marks Informix’s entry into the Indian Internet market. Revenue coming from the new Internet solutions is expected to contribute 15 percent to […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and NetObjects Inc. Monday teamed up to bring NetObjects’ intranet tool to the Solaris operating environment. The two companies aim to provide a high performance, scalable and reliable environment to create intranet portals and corporate Web sites. NetObjects will integrate its Authoring Server Suite into Solaris 7 operating system. The suite is […]

Pets.com Monday announced it has raised $50 million from e-tailer Amazon.com and venture capital firms Bowman Capital and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. This second round of financing will be used for marketing and branding efforts, infrastructure building, and company growth. “We are running hard and fast to make Pets.com the best possible customer experience, from […]

Health site drkoop.com Monday established an e-commerce relationship with Drug Emporium, an online drugstore. The agreement will allow drkoop.com users access to more than 20,000 discounted drug and healthcare products via DrugEmporium.com, while simultaneously affording DrugEmporium.com visitors access to drkoop.com’s content and tools. drkoop.com is chaired by Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General […]

Singapore-based e-commerce software and services provider SR Singapore Pte Ltd has indicated plans to expand through development and acquisitions and seek a listing on the NASDAQ Small Cap market in July. SR Singapore projects a combined revenue of US$60 million for the next three years from products and services it is developing and offering as […]

Amazon.com leased a mechanized distribution facility near the Atlanta airport that will allow the company to reduce standard shipping times to customers in key markets in the Southeast. The Georgia facility is the fifth new Amazon.com distribution center to be announced this year and means that by the 1999 holiday shopping season, Amazon.com will have […]

Go2Net Inc. signed Mercata Inc. for the creation of a category in online shopping called group buying. Available via the Go2Net Network’s Shopping Channel, Go2Net’s Group Buying shopping link is the first site of its kind to feature Mercata’s patent-pending “We-Commerce” technology. At the site, consumers can collectively harness their buying power in Mercata’s group […]

TradeOut.com launched an independent, business-to-business Internet marketplace to facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers of extra inventory, idle assets and last year’s products. TradeOut.com said its business model is similar to that of auction site eBay. On TradeOut.com, executives can buy and sell items in over 50 product categories in an auction-based, sealed-bid or fixed-price […]