InternetNews Staff

Stamford, CT-based name-your-price e-commerce operation Priceline.com expanded its hotel room marketplace to include service in more than 1,100 cities, towns and resort destinations in all 50 states. Priceline.com said that 4,250 brand-name hotels have now joined the program–an increase of 283 percent over December 1998. Meanwhile, the total number of cities covered has risen 550 […]

Millionaire.com scheduled grand opening auctions for April 30 at its newest auction facility, the Global Auction Emporium, located in Bluffton on the main artery into Hilton Head, SC. LiveBid, a subsidiary of Yahoo!, will broadcast the auction live over the Internet. Participants may register to bid over the Internet at LiveBid. Millionaire.com, in affiliation with […]

Since the launch of the E-Hub service in January this year, Mediaworks, a division of Pacific Internet (PI) Limited of Singapore, has gained over 30 local customers and is preparing for the launch of its PI Mall in four weeks. Of these 30 over customer companies, some bought startup packages from E-Hub, ranging from S$1,000 […]

theglobe.com network said Thursday it will team with e-commerce provider Wave Systems Corp. to provide a free personal publishing commerce service for digital content distribution on the Web. theglobe.com will offer Wave’s MyPublish community e-commerce service to its members for the promotion and selling of digital content such as personally-created newsletters, subscriptions, images, audio, video, […]

Inktomi Corp. Thursday said it will acquire online merchandising software provider Impulse! Buy Network in a stock swap deal designed to bolster Inktomi’s Shopping Engine product. Terms of the deal call for Inktomi to acquire all outstanding stock and assume all stock options of Impulse! in exchange for 900,000 shares of Inktomi common stock. Based […]

Houston-based Newwatch Co., which calls itself the largest online watch retailer, said it has received a $34 million investment from three leading technology investment firms, Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital and Bowman Capital Management. The company also announced a site name change to Ashford.com. The new capital will be used to fund an expansive marketing campaign […]

India lags behind in e-business use, according to an IDC estimate. E-commerce in India is to touch $ 160 million by 2001 from $ 2.8 million in 1997. IDC says in India, most of the transactions are business-to-consumer rather than business-to-business. India’s 150,000 Internet subscribers are estimated to rise to 1.15 million by 2001 in […]

e.Digital Corp., Lucent Technologies and Texas Instruments said Wednesday they will jointly develop a new handheld device enabling users to listen to downloaded music from the Internet. e.Digital will manufacture the device, which will integrate Lucent’s Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder with e.Digital’s patented MicroOS file management system. The device employs a new class of Digital […]

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers Wednesday named the five companies that will participate in the initial test phase of the new competitive shared registry system for .com, .net and .org domains. That system permits multiple registrars to provide registration services for all the top-level domain names that NSI currently handles. ICANN named […]

Portland, OR-based 800.COM Inc., an online retailer of consumer electronics and home entertainment products, secured $16 million in private funding in a second round of financing. Trinity Ventures of Menlo Park, CA, which led the round, was joined by other principal investors Asia Pacific Ventures of Menlo Park; Vulcan Ventures of Bellevue, WA; and Stanford […]

The challenge of leveraging e-business to enhance customer relationships, while protecting consumers’ privacy, will be the focus for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Summit ’99, to be held at the New York Supper Club on June 29. Forbes Magazine will debut this year as the Summit ’99 media sponsor. The program features a series of discussions on recent developments […]

Weehawken, NJ-based Hanover Direct Inc. an e-commerce and catalog marketer, and RS Software India Ltd., a provider of quality software services from India, signed a joint venture agreement. The two companies will work to develop software, systems and programming for Internet based electronic commerce applications in the direct marketing and retail areas. The initial effort […]