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Enterprise software company SAP AG Monday unveiled version 4.0 of its Knowledge Warehouse suite, previously known as InfoDB. Knowledge Warehouse 4.0 is made to provide companies with a Web-enabled information-gathering environment, rich content and powerful tools to create an intranet system for transferring knowledge and enhancing employee performance, the company said. It is highly scalable, […]

Realizing that brick and mortar are not enough to hold its megastores, Virgin Entertainment Group Monday launched Virgin Megastore Online, an e-commerce and music source to complement its worldwide chain of stores. Subsidiary Virgin E-Commerce will run the site, which features music, video and entertainment-related books and merchandise. The site also offers real-time Internet radio, […]

RadioShack, the electronics retailing arm of Tandy Corp. said Monday it is launching a new e-commerce unit, Radioshack.com, which will feature a comprehensive offering of products and services. The e-commerce site will include an electronic catalog of more than 30,000 products, ten times the inventory normally found in a RadioShack bricks and mortar store. In […]

Nearly 21 years after the Federal Communications Commission ruled against broadcasting the seven filthy words played in a George Carlin radio monologue, the courts again have been asked to intervene, this time in ruling whether those words can be used in domain names. Recent lawuits filed in California and New Hampshire target the policy of […]

A S$9 million (US$5.3 million) project transforms the way people in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore study with the introduction of a 24-hour integrated digital library system that has access to an international federation, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). With this 24-hour digital library system, called Gateway to Electronic Media […]

The Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company (AMC) Limited has unveiled ‘e-commerce’ for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), offering them the convenience of on-line investment in its open-ended scheme. This has become India’s first mutual fund company to launch e-commerce for NRIs. “The e-commerce offered by us gives an NRI investor the convenience of an on-line application for […]

Miami-based Spanish Broadcasting System Inc. (SBS)–the nation’s largest Hispanic-owned radio company–has acquired a majority interest in LaMusica.com, a Latin Internet music site. The deal will give SBS 80 percent ownership of LaMusica.com, which generates over three million hits per month, making it the most-visited Latino music Internet site. Financial terms were not disclosed. SBS said […]

San Francisco-based Andromedia Inc., a provider of e-marketing software, and the Sun-Netscape Alliance, a provider of e-commerce solutions, agreed to develop interoperability interfaces for Netscape SellerXpert and Andromedia’s ARIA and LikeMinds product lines. ARIA analyzes high-value data in real-time and reports on customer information. LikeMinds Personalization Server personalizes each and every customer interaction, providing real-time […]

San Jose, CA-based sporting goods retailer Fogdog Sports closed its second round of venture funding to the tune of nearly $20 million with additional investments from Intel Corp., Marquette Venture Partners and Sprout Group. The round included earlier participation from Venrock Associates and Vertex Management, and from Fogdogs original investors, J. H. Whitney & Co., […]

Worcester, MA-based online furniture store Furniture.com said it is now offering real-time, proactive, customer assistance to online shoppers “at the moment they need it most.” “At Furniture.com, we’ve created an entirely new consumer shopping experience based on personalization, service and total satisfaction,” said Furniture.com President and CEO Andrew L. Brooks. “By offering shoppers access to […]

Dell Computer Corp. beefed up its Latin American Web site sales operation,offering product information, service and support from the site, and the ability to custom-build a computer system and pay for it over the Web. Dell said it expects the number of online purchases in the region to accelerate as more buyers move online and […]

ActivMEDIA Research and Kalorama Information LLC released findings from a new study that shows that “Premium Specialty Goods” e-commerce sites expect to have average sales for 1999 that are 10 times those of 1998. Merchants are somewhat more cautious in revenue projections for 2000, anticipating a quadrupling of revenues over the current year. The category […]