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Internet loyalty rewards marketer MyPoints.com Inc. and Hilton HHonors, one of the hospitality industry’s leading frequent guest reward programs, have teamed up to offer e-commerce incentives to consumers. “Our relationship with MyPoints will allow Hilton HHonors members to earn points when shopping for a wide variety of products and services on the Web,” said Jeffrey […]

Tampa, FL-based 800 Travel Systems Inc., operator of lowairfare.com, signed a letter of intent to form an alliance with Cumetrix Data Systems Corp., enabling it to conduct auctions on its travel portal. Cumetrix is a provider of computer-related products, peripherals and configuration services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Through Cumetrix e-commerce partner Online Transaction Technologies […]

Westwood, MA-based ShopLink Inc., a provider of PC-based shopping for groceries and services in the Boston area, made three additions to its board of directors and said that John R. Icke, previously its president and CEO, has been named chairman and CEO. New board members include Michael A. Pruzan, a partner of Soros Private Equity […]

IBM Friday rolled out the ViaVoice Online Companion, a new tool that enables Internet users to talk in chat rooms and dictate e-mails. The product is the companion to IBM’s ViaVoice 98, which lets users perform keyboard and mouse functions through speech. ViaVoice users can dictate directly into PC applications, and issue voice commands to […]

Former Internet high-flyer PointCast Inc., architect of push technology, confirmed it laid off 85 of its 220 employees late Thursday, following the failure to successfully negotiate an Internet pact with regional operating Bell companies. The company’s one-year alliance with Bell South, US West, Bell Canada and Microsoft fell apart, after the RBOCs told PointCast they […]

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) of Singapore has just signed a S$12 million contract with National Computer Systems Pte Ltd. (NCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Singapore Telecom Group, for the provision of a complete Internet, call-center solution for Singapore’s Population Census 2000. In the deal, NCS will provide the Singapore Department […]

Boca Raton, FL-based Audio Book Club Inc. is acquiring Audiobooks Direct, a business of Doubleday Direct Inc. (a subsidiary of Bertelsmann Inc.). Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition establishes Audio Book Club as the world leader in the distribution of audiobooks via the Internet and direct mail, the company said. The companies have entered […]

Naples, FL-based smart card company SmartDisk Corp. said it has integrated its Smarty smart card reader/writer with online gambling applications. Smarty is being distributed by Fischer International Systems Corp., a non- exclusive distributor of SmartDisk products, and Alliance Gaming Corp., the parent company of Bally Gaming & Systems. The Smarty reader/writer is an integral part […]

Network Solutions, Inc. and Centraal Corp.Thursday announced a free 60-day trial of the RealNames Web page addressing service. The RealNames System is a global, standards-based solution which allocates simple names to Web pages, and operates in the URL location bar of browsers. RealNames resolvers contain more than 3 million RealNames. Centraal directs Internet users to […]

Following a week of rumors, Yahoo! Inc. Thursday confirmed it will acquire Internet audio/video provider Broadcast.com Inc. in a deal worth an estimated $5.7 billion. Yahoo! will issue .7722 of a share of Yahoo! common stock for each share of Broadcast.com. All outstanding options of Broadcast.com will also be converted into Yahoo! options. The acquisition […]

Palo Alto, CA-based Replay Networks Inc., which markets technology the ReplayTV set-top device and the Replay Network Service, said that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is the lead investor of a group investing some $8 million in the company. Other investors are Vulcan Ventures Inc., the investment organization of Paul G. Allen, and Tribune Co.

Together with the National Computer Board(NCB) of Singapore, Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) has launched Advanced Interactive Media (AIM) Center to encourage industry partners to develop broadband applications on SingaporeONE using KRDL’s technologies. Gurminder Singh, director of learning lab at KRDL, said that few Singapore companies have the technical know-how to fully exploit the SingaporeONE […]