InternetNews Staff

eBay took the top spot as the Internet’s best overall auction site, according to a study released Monday by Gomez Advisors. The company ranked 15 auction sites based on ease of use, customer confidence, on site resources and relationship services. eBay, which Gomez says is the market leader in terms of membership, was ranked first […]

Yahoo! Inc. Monday signed a distribution agreement with Verity, Inc. to add personalization features to corporate intranets. Under the agreement, Verity will provide a link to My Yahoo! as part of Verity’s Corporate Portal Guide. The agreement is designed to provide users with features such as updated national news, sports and financial information and local […]

As senators prepare for a hearing Tuesday on the state of broadband Internet access, an industry group is urging legislators to do all they can to preserve competition in the market. The openNET Coalition Monday delivered a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee calling on the group to take steps to ensure that […]

Leveraging off its market share of payment solutions in India, NCR Corp. has introduced its ChequeMark solution and services in India. ChequeMark, designed to enhance check clearing efficiencies, will function on 7780 reader sorter and NT based server with value added modules like image statements, CD-ROM statements and remittance processes. Commenting on NCR’s operations in […]

Multimedia entertainment provider Creative Technology Ltd. Monday unveiled its Creative NOMAD line of portable digital audio players and also launched the new Web site. Making its debut at the Spring Internet World ’99 trade show in Los Angeles, the Creative NOMAD portable players are aimed at consumers who want to download, transport and playback digital […]

India’s Internet policy has thrown open the doors to private Internet service providers (ISPs) and has given them the freedom to fix tariffs. It allows a maximum 49 percent foreign equity stake and waives licenses for the first five years of the ten-year validity of the license. But at a recent ISP conference in Bombay, […]

Users who access the Web from work spent 35 percent more time online than home users during the month of February, according to Internet traffic analyst Media Metrix. In a recent report, the firm found office users logged an average of 417.4 minutes a month compared to 310.3 minutes per month from home. In addition, […]

Megaportal Yahoo! Inc is looking to enter India with Web properties and resources, according to informed sources in the industry. Sources indicated that Yahoo! might spin an exclusive Indian Web site and weave a net of partnerships here. The portal giant might go in for localized versions, if business potentials are right and the market […]

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly in discussions to acquire Jump Networks Inc., an Ithaca, NY-based Web calendar service. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the talks, reported the two companies are in closed-door negotiations. Web calendaring appears to be the latest buzzword in the Internet industry. Jump’s main rival, When.com, Inc. was acquired by […]

Culver City, CA-based Precision Entertainment, a provider of end-to-end e-commerce services for entertainment, sports and lifestyle companies, said it has received $5 million in a first round of equity financing. The funding was led by institutional investors Dawntreader LP, a New York venture capital fund founded by Robert Lessin of Wit Capital, and Comcast Communications. […]

Vermont-based GreenMountain.com signed a marketing agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to sell its “cleaner electricity” as Yahoo!’s premier consumer energy merchant. Green Mountain will run banner advertisements throughout the Yahoo! network, allowing consumers in certain states to purchase electricity made from energy blends featuring renewable energy sources, such as wind, small-scale hydro, biomass and/or geothermal. The […]

A California man this week filed suit against Microsoft Corp., claiming the software giant is using his patented technology on its Seattle Sidewalk site. Thomas D. Peterson of Sonoma, Calif., filed the suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Oakland. He contends he was awarded a 1996 patent for computerized method he developed that finds […]