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Transaction services company CyberSource Corp. has partnered with Heartland Payment Systems (HPS), a subsidiary of Heartland Bank in St. Louis, MO, to provide Web merchants with a one-stop credit card acceptance solution. The solution offers quick and easy merchant account setup combined with secure real-time processing of credit card payments, the companies said. Financial arrangements […]

Minneapolis-based Select Comfort Corp. opened an online store to market its air beds and sleep accessories. “Since we already sell our products through direct marketing, adding e-commerce as a distribution channel was a natural transition,” said Dan McAthie, president and CEO. Select Comfort also operates more than 275 company-owned stores nationwide. Consumers can learn about […]

San Francisco-based Digital Island, a global application hosting and content distribution company, said that Internet services firm iXL Inc. will become a beta customer of its TraceWare geographic intelligence technology. TraceWare gives multinational corporations the ability to determine the country of origin for transparently delivering localized content, Digital Island said. iXL’s TraceWare beta program will […]

National Computer Systems Pte Ltd. (NCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Singapore Telecom Group, Friday launched the ePartner Priority Club for Web merchants on its Consumer Connect program, and announced a partnership with Netlife Singapore Pte Ltd. to provide Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) and cross border transaction capabilities. “The ePartner Priority Club objective is […]

Two Virginia Congressmen this week introduced a bill designed to eliminate exclusive service agreements now being forged by cable Internet providers. The Internet Growth and Development Act of 1999, introduced Thursday by Reps. Rick Boucher and Bob Goodlatte, attacks cable companies that bundle Internet access with cable television offerings. The Congressmen argue telephone companies that […]

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen has failed to follow through on his plans to buy a majority stake in Internet directory Go2Net Inc. Although Allen was not able to secure a majority stake in the company, he is expected to wind up owning 34 percent of Go2Net’s outstanding shares, according to published reports. On March […]

Mountain View, CA-based VeriSign Inc. expanded its global network of Affiliate Service Providers to include KPN, a telecommunications company in the Netherlands, and Certisur in Argentina. The new affiliates join others across the U.S., Britain, France, Japan, South Africa and Taiwan, leveraging VeriSign’s global infrastructure for delivering digital certificate solutions to businesses wishing to engage […]

Kent, CT-based online computer products retailer Cyberian Outpost Inc. said it has begun a search for a president and chief executive officer to replace Darryl Peck, who will become chairman of the board. “As the founder of Cyberian Outpost, I am very proud of all that we’ve accomplished since the company began operations in 1995,” […]

The Boston-based Goldhirsh Group, which publishes Inc. magazine, said it will establish a separate corporation to launch inc.com, a site for small businesses on the Web. Chairman Bernard Goldhirsh said the move will be “a very significant investment in the expansion of the inc. franchise.” The goal of inc.com “is to be the primary destination […]

Andhra Pradesh, run by technology savvy chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, has set the deadline of September 1999 for making the state the first in the country to have electronic governance. The next few months will witness a flurry of activity and fast-paced changes in this direction. According to a senior official in information technology, […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday announced it will take a $5 billion stake in AT&T Corp. and said the two companies will work together on a number of next-generation broadband and Internet services projects. The non-exclusive agreements also call for AT&T to increase its use of Microsoft’s TV software platform in advanced set-top devices. Both companies said […]

The National Internet Advisory Committee (NIAC) chairman Thursday said that Singapore ISP SingNet has not approached the NIAC to certify that the ISP’s security scan of its 200,000 subscribers’ computers was not intrusive, and that NIAC is not in the position to make such a pronouncement. This reiterates the point that SingNet is appealing to […]