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Chicago-based Bank One Corp., a provider of online banking services with 300,000 online customers, said it has fully-integrated online bill delivery through the Integrion Financial Network. The new bill delivery service enables Bank One customers to both receive and pay bills online through the Bank One Web site. The bill delivery service connects the scalability […]

Santa Monica, CA-based Cooking.com said it has secured $16 million in second-round financing from its existing investors and a new group led by Vanguard Venture Partners. Cooking.com also announced a two-year, multimillion-dollar deal with America Online to become a programming partner in the Food & Cooking Web Center on AOL.com. Under the agreement, Cooking.com will […]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently drafted a proposal for brand new reserved top level DNS names. The group wants to issue new domain names for private testing of existing DNS-related code and configuration, as well as some second level domain names. The group cited, as an example, that a site might want to […]

Emily of Emerald Hill, Singapore’s favorite Peranakan play written in 1982, has made its way onto the Internet stage. Sponsored by IBM, the Web site is now the virtual home for Emily of Emerald Hill. “We see the site becoming a hotbed for the sharing of experiences, thoughts, and ideas. Through discussing Emily on the […]

Century Bank announced Friday it will offer online, real-time Internet Banking during the second quarter this year. Century’s Internet Banking expects to enable customers to bank via the Internet 24-hours a day from home or office PCs. Features will include multiple statement viewing and retrieval, funds transfers between accounts, loan payments, viewing and printing of […]

America Online Inc. signed an $17 million agreement with AutoConnect, which bills itself as the largest used car site on the Web. AOL, AOL.com and CompuServe users will have direct access to AutoConnect’s inventory of 750,000 used cars and trucks. Consumers will also have access to automotive reviews, articles and other aftermarket information. AOL and […]

internet.com Thursday filed a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The company did not specify how many shares would be offered or what price range it would seek for the shares. Lead underwriters for the IPO will be U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc. and William Blair & Co., LLC […]

Seattle-based Amazon.com said it has leased a distribution facility in Coffeyville, KS, that will allow the company to reduce shipping times to key markets in the Midwest and Southeast United States. The 460,000-square-foot facility will be expanded to more than 750,000 square feet this year. This will be the largest Amazon.com distribution facility to date […]

Georgia-based CheckFree, a provider of financial electronic commerce services and applications, formed EC Solutions, a new division of the company that will assist CheckFree’s billers, financial institutions, software providers and service bureaus with education and implementation of electronic billing and payment solutions. The new division, set to launch next month, will operate autonomously of other […]

Sam Pitroda believes in the power of technology to fulfil basic human needs almost with religious zeal. As chairman of WorldTel Limited, London, which was created by the International Telecommunications Union specifically to fund telecom in the emerging markets, Pitroda now has the opportunity to practice his faith across the entire developing world. Commenting on […]

Kent, CT-based computer products retailer Cyberian Outpost Inc. launched a free overnight delivery initiative called TruePrice. The company said its Outpost.com store will provide free overnight delivery to customers in the United States, accepting orders until midnight Eastern Time. The company has also announced the expansion of its customer service Contact Center to accept calls […]

Menlo Park, CA-based Homestead Technologies, a provider of ad-backed self-service Web-based publishing for consumers, completed a $17.5 million round of financing from a group led by Silicon Valley based venture firm IVP. In addition to IVP, Global Retail Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson also participated in the round. Homestead is a Web-based publishing platform that […]