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Automotive e-commerce site Autobytel.com signed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to offer thousands of used vehicles for sale through Yahoo! Autos, a channel for researching, buying, selling and finding information on maintaining new and used cars. The agreement with Yahoo! Autos increases Autobytel.com’s stake in the $370 billion pre-owned vehicle market, which currently includes the […]

Ericsson Friday acquired a 75 percent stake in Danish company Telebit Communications A/S which specializes in developing new generation Internet solutions, for DKK 200 million (US$30 million). The investment will be made over the next two years. Under the terms of the deal, Ericsson will integrate Telebit’s line of solutions into its mobile network offerings. […]

India’s most famous all-market conglomerate Tata group is evaluating the possibility of getting into the ISP business on an all-India basis. The process of evaluating a possible ISP offering is on and when it comes through, “TTL will assist that effort in Andhra Pradesh,” said Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTL) director S. Ramakrishnan. He added that […]

It doesn’t look like a very good weekend for eBay. The online auction site crashed late Thursday night, leaving bidders to swarm to its many competitors and as of Friday, a full recovery is still not in sight. eBay engineers worked through the night to rebuild a corrupted system disk and the company has assured […]

EMI Music Group PLC has taken a 50 percent stake in Musicmaker.com, a site that offers custom disks as well as free digital music downloads. Musicmaker.com also received an exclusive five-year license to EMI’s music catalog. No financial terms of the deal, announced late Thursday, were disclosed. Musicmaker allows consumers to create custom compact disks […]

Tractor Supply Co. launched a Web-based retail operation with the opening of an equine supply and equipment “store” at a new virtual mall that will be expanded over the next several months to include as many as a dozen “tenants.” Blake A. Fohl, vice president of marketing and advertising for Tractor Supply, said the move […]

Rx.com became the latest entrant in the online pharmacy wars, launching an online store featuring more than 3,000 over-the-counter healthcare items, with more than 1,200 new products being added to the site weekly. Rx.com said it will provide online retail prescription medication capabilities to consumers in the coming months. The prescription area will include detailed […]

Imagine handing out a business card to a prospective client…only it’s missing your phone number and e-mail address. Some Internet consumers face a similiar scenario when making purchases on the Web, according to new results of the Federal Trade Commission’s International Web Survey. The FTC studied 200 Web sites in 18 countries that were selectedfrom […]

FollowUp.Net, a provider of Internet database marketing tools, delivered ProfileTrakker, an interactive customer profiling and marketing application for e-commerce merchants. The turnkey, hosted service builds and manages customer relationships, the company said. ProfileTrakker allows the vendor to accumulate specific customer preference information and then uses permission and one-to-one marketing techniques to reach out to shoppers […]

Cary, NC-based Relativity Technologies Inc. a supplier of legacy transformation solutions, released RescueWare 5.0, a legacy to e-business solution. RescueWare 5.0 meets the needs of traditional corporations that are looking to transform themselves into e-businesses, but are trapped by the complexity and expense of “matching” their new business model with their existing legacy applications, the […]

e4L Inc., Buyitnow Inc. and Clear Channel Communications Inc. signed an agreement to jointly form Buyitnow.com LLC, which will operate an eponymous Web shopping plaza. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Clear Channel, which will operate or be affiliated with 625 radio stations, 19 television stations and approximately 302,000 outdoor advertising displays in 26 countries after […]

Shares of software consulting firm Infosys Technologies Ltd., the only Indian company that trades in the United States, saw new highs following the company’s strategic alliance with CyberSource Corp., a provider of e-commerce transaction processing services. Under the agreement, Infosys will deliver scalable solutions using CyberSource services and technologies, with emphasis on speed-to-market and tight […]