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Content delivery company Sandpiper Networks, Inc. Monday announced an agreement with America Online to offer Sandpiper’s Footprint service to AOL users. Footprint delivers Web content from a globally distributed network of ISP and major backbone servers. It is designed to avoid Internet congestion points, and ensures that content is served closer to end-users. Under its […]

The second business-to-business application on SingaporeONE has emerged with the launch of i-ERP yesterday. Pivotpoint Software Inc., US-based service provider of customer-oriented enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, is offering i-ERP over the SingaporeONE broadband network to local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who wish to outsource their ERP implementations. i-ERP is a service which consists […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. Monday announced plans to invest $35 million over the next three-and-a-half years in BroadVision Inc., in an e-commerce and knowledge-management solutions alliance. The partnership, part of HP’s e-services initiative, is aimed at offering enterprise customers the ability to deploy a series of advanced, personalized business-portal solutions. The offerings will include integrated commerce, marketing […]

Inktomi Corp. Monday unveiled the latest version of its carrier-class network cache platform, Traffic Server 3.0. In addition, the company said it has teamed with six new software providers, who announced support for the platform. Inktomi Traffic Server 3.0, slated for availability later this quarter, is designed to deliver both the scalability with the industry’s […]

PC Quote Inc., a provider of real-time financial information on the Internet, announced Monday it was changing its name to HyperFeed Technologies Inc. and is planning an initial public offering. The name change is being made to align the company with HyperFeed 2000, the name of one of its most popular financial data feed products. […]

In a bid to offer more upscale offerings, online auctioneer eBay Monday acquired global appraisal and auction house Butterfield & Butterfield for approximately $260 million. In a related announcement, San Francisco-based Butterfield & Butterfield said it is canceling its proposed initial public offering announced in February for 1.5 million shares of common stock. The acquisition […]

Miami-based online fragrance retailer Perfumania.com Inc. a subsidiary of Perfumania Inc., a national perfumery chain, said it plans to make an initial public offering of its common stock. The company said it intends to raise $15 million to $20 million and anticipates offering shares representing approximately 33 percent of the company. The company said it […]

Auction site uBid Inc. signed a partnership deal with electronic software delivery firm Digital River. uBid said it will be the first online auction site to provide downloadable software to its customers, allowing them the opportunity to bid on and have immediate access to Digital River’s list of software titles. uBid’s popular business-to-consumer auction site […]

Internet software store Beyond.com has been awarded a three-year, $6.1 million contract to deliver software upgrades and updates of Microsoft products to the Patent and Trademark Office. Under terms of the contract, Beyond.com will deliver Microsoft products, including Windows NT, Office Pro, BackOffice, Visual Studio, FrontPage and Project for distribution throughout the government agency. The […]

CyberShop International, Inc. will become a featured merchant on GO Network’s GO Shop shopping service, the companies announced Friday. The agreement calls for Cybershop to prominently display items from its main Web site on the GO Shop homepage, and also on the Apparel & Jewelry department page and on related search results pages. Financial terms […]

Intranet firm Focus Internet has signed distribution agreements with a number of Internet services companies in recent weeks to bundle its Merlin intranet utility in Internet access servers, and is currently searching for an active channel to market. Merlin is made to provide system security, user administration and profiling, KnowledgeBase for storage and retrieval of […]

San Antonio, TX-based billserv.com Inc. launched a preview version of bills.com, an Internet portal where consumers will be able to pay all their bills online at no charge. When launched later this year, bills.com also will enable billers to present electronic bills for payment for little or no cost, unlike other bill presentment sites, the […]