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Joining forces to challenge e-commerce Goliath Amazon.com, dueling music e-tailers CDnow and N2K Wednesday finalized their $522 million merger. The new entity will be known as CDnow/N2K. The companies first announced the deal last October. N2K shareholders will get 0.83 shares of common stock for every N2K share held and CDnow shareholders will receive one […]

Linux, the license-free UNIX-like operating system, which has been the fancy of the educational community for long, is now being increasingly seen as a viable alternative to Windows NT and Netware by many corporate houses in India. The flagship of the open-source software (OSS) movement that’s challenging the proprietary paradigms of commercial software development, Linux […]

Inktomi Corp. Tuesday debuted its Professional Services unit aimed at ISPs building global large-scale Internet services. In addition, Inktomi also announced a variety of Internet companies have adopted Inktomi Shopping Engine, its online shopping platform . The company said 15 portals and more than 300 e-tailers have signed with Inktomi to employ the commerce service. […]

The American Group, Inc. has begun to expand the marketing efforts of Plants Express Inc. and entered a strategic marketing alliance with Interactive Multimedia Network Inc. IMNI launched Shop-the-Net.com almost five years ago and during that time created a strong retail presence for its family shopping village. IMNI will promote Plants Express via its Shop-the-Net.com […]

Netscape Communications Corp. has added The Business Ethics Bureau’s Safe Search to its Netscape Netcenter Net Search Page. EthicsBureau.com is an online information resource, and a full function Search Engine Portal that is published by the Business Ethics Bureau (BEBI). BEBI is a consumer awareness agency that produces online reliability reports, profiles of companies and […]

Business Week launched “Business Week e.biz,” a quarterly report on electronic business, in its March 22 issue. For the debut issue, the staff interviewed more than 275 experts on the front lines of e-business and produced a list of Top 10 Must-dos for any CEO — or CEO wannabe — who wants to thrive in […]

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To get a bigger slice of the Internet Service Provider market in Singapore this year, SingNet and Pacific Internet are prepared to suffer loss in profits through the introduction of their respective toll free and toll plus schemes. Beginning this year, SingNet has announced that it will absorb all its subscribers’ Internet phone charges, passing […]

Cap Gemini, one of the world’s largest information technology consultants, Monday chose Dataware Technologies Inc.’s Knowledge Query Server to manage information residing on its worldwide intranet systems. The Dataware II Knowledge Query Server is a browser-based search tool that give users a single point of entry to multiple enterprise information sources. Companies can tailor the […]

Online brokerage Ameritrade Holding Corp. and Cortal, a European discount broker Monday announced plans to join in offering cross-border trading, enabling the companies’ users to trade stocks over the Internet in the U.S. and France. Through the agreement, Ameritrade’s U.S. customers can purchase stocks listed on the Paris Bourse through Cortal, and Cortal customers will […]

PlayMedia Systems Inc., an MP3 music technology firm, Monday sued Nullsoft Inc., makers of the popular WinAmp MP3 player. PlayMedia alleges that technology in Nullsoft’s WinAmp was taken from PlayMedia’s AMP Audio MPEG Player. The company said Nullsoft attempted to obtain a license to use the technology in its software early last year, although an […]

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen Monday invested $300 million for a controlling interest in Go2Net Inc. Go2Net is a network of Web sites focusing on personal finance, search, commerce and games. The company also develops Web-related software. Properties include Go2Net Personal, Silicon Investor, StockSite and the MetaCrawler search engine. The investment consists of the sale […]