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Cable broadband provider @Home Solutions Friday announced it is teaming with Microsoft Corp. to jointly deploy of broadband Internet services to an estimated 15 million homes and businesses served by small and mid-sized cable operators. For Microsoft, the deal means its Windows NT Server operating system will be deployed across the distributed network serving @Home […]

To attract U.S. Latino Internet users, considered the fastest growing Net population in the country, Bloomberg L.P. Thursday launched a finance portal catering specifically to the Spanish-speaking audience. NegociosBloomberg.com is a bilingual personal finance portal that features Spanish-language radio reports, video feeds, book excerpts, market news, and headlines and customizable tools. The site launch augments […]

E-mail and messaging service USA.NET Thursday rolled out four scalable message outsourcing solutions for businesses, service providers and Web portals. USA.NET hopes to woo companies that want extensive e-mail services, but do not want to operate their own system. “These days, few companies need the hassle and high costs associated with operating an on-premise e-mail […]

Santa Clara, CA-based Manage.Com delivered its FrontLine e.M software to allow enterprises doing business over the Web to securely manage transactions and processes across an extended electronic community. The company said the app ensures “quality of service. . .for suppliers, customers and partners. . .” FrontLine e.M was designed specifically to be “extranet-ready” and manages […]

St. Paul, MN-based St. Paul Software, a provider of Internet-based, business-to-business e-commerce solutions, has been contracted by Cisco Systems to e-commerce enable its supply chain. Cisco said the move will significantly lower its trading partner transaction, inventory and administrative costs. Cisco Systems is utilizing SPS Commerce’s Trading Partner Enablement program to e-commerce enable its trading […]

Mydiscountbroker.com, the online subsidiary of Dallas-based Southwest Securities Group Inc., Thursday added initial public offerings to its lineup. The brokerage’s customers will be able to access IPOs that are underwritten by Wit Capital, the first company to offer IPOs to individual investors over the Internet. Since its founding in 1996, Wit has underwritten dozens of […]

Internet incubator idealab! is teaming with pet supply retailer PETsMART to launch a new electronic commerce venture, PETsMART.com. idealab! has financed a variety of now famous Internet names, including eToys and GoTo.com. Earlier this week, idealab! announced it would buy “push” pioneer PointCast and merge that company with its LaunchPad Technologies unit. PETsMART will each […]

Infoseek Corp. Thursday unveiled a new, improved version of its Infoseek Search on the GO Network. Infoseek said search results on GO have been improved by as much as 30 percent, and the size of the Infoseek search engine has grown 50 percent as well. Additional improvements include term highlighting, which highlights precisely where a […]

Yahoo! Inc. Thursday rolled out its Yahoo! Auctions service to three of its international sites, Yahoo! Australia & New Zealand, Yahoo! Canada and Yahoo! UK & Ireland. Features of the new service include local auction content and access to auctions from other areas in the world, including the U.S. The auctions are free, with no […]

San Ramon, CA-based OnDisplay, a provider of solutions for business portals, said it has been selected by e-commerce vendors Ariba Inc. and Harbinger Corp. to provide content and commerce exchange capabilities to industrial suppliers engaging in e-business. These alliances will enable suppliers to continue leveraging their existing technology and infrastructure investments while taking advantage of […]

Houston-based online shopping mall company Intermallamerica.com, which has more than 130 merchants, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Delaware-based CCNow, a provider of e-commerce solutions for small businesses. As a result of the agreement, more than 800 small to mid-sized businesses currently using CCNow’s online retailing services will have the opportunity to establish storefronts in […]

Swedish mobile Internet technology provider Sendit AB Wednesday recommended that its shareholders accept an offer from Microsoft Corp. for SEC 325 crowns (US$39) per share. The bid values Sendit’s worth at SEC 1.07 billion(US$130 million). Shareholders controlling 42.9 percent of the company have already accepted the offer. Sendit’s board of directors evaluated the bid as […]