Paul Nicholls

Affiliated Networks, Inc. announced today that it entered into an affinity marketing agreement with GTE Internetworking, an ISP division of telecommunications firm GTE Corp. Under terms of the agreement, Affiliated will market its e-commerce products, MAREX, and MEDx to an audience of 300,000 independent marine, medical, and dental businesses, which reportedly generate combined annual purchases […]

The Electronic Newsstand Inc. in Washington, DC said it has received a $20 million investment from Chicago’s Madison Dearborn Partners Inc. Brian Hecht, president and CEO of The Electronic Newsstand, said the investment “will keep growth on a fast track for a company that has been the early leader in online magazine sales.” The company […]

Internet software superstore Software.net Corp. changed its name to “Beyond.com,” enhanced its Web site and launched a national advertising campaign to promote its new brand. The initiatives are aimed at making Beyond.com the brand of choice for people who buy software, the company said. The new Nasdaq ticker symbol will be BYND. “Beyond.com promises that […]

Atomic Software, publisher of the Authorizer for Windows payment package, delivered a new version–Multiple Merchants–designed for ISPs and Web designers that supports up to 10,000 separate merchant accounts. “Web site order forms are becoming Internet cash registers, with credit cards the payment of choice for merchants,” said Walter Murphy, Atomic’s vice president of business development. […]

@plan in Stamford, CT, a provider of research about consumer behavior on the Web, said its latest figures show that 22% of active adult (18+) Web users have shopped online for airline tickets or reservations during the past six months. Next to software, travel is the single largest “shopped” e-commerce category, the company said. “The […]

NETdelivery Corp., a provider of electronic bill presentment and payment solutions, said it received a patent from the U.S. Patent office for its Electronic Delivery Management technology. The company developed and patented its EDM technology to enable the delivery of personalized electronic content including bills, invoices, statements, catalogs and other high-value data. NETdelivery’s initial deployment […]

The mainstream continues to go online. Now comes the H. J. Heinz Co. with a new corporate Web site that will “give users ready access to vital and timely information about the global food processor’s brands, management and performance.” The creation of a corporate Web site is Heinz’s most recent effort to centralize and coordinate […]

Research firm ActivMedia Inc. said almost half (46%) of Web sites selling business-to-business products will adopt Internet conferencing tools this year. These tools–such as Internet telephone, videoconferencing, and workgroup products–are seen as crucial to B-to-B’s core mission of building better customer relationships, the company said in a report entitled “Selling to B-to-B Website Managers.” Whether […]

Streaming media company Broadcast.com and National Media Corp., a direct response television company, today announced an alliance to create a 24-hour per day live and on-demand streaming video shopping channels on the Internet. Under terms of the agreement, broadcast.com will provide exclusive, complete Internet broadcasting services for National Media’s direct response programming. Additionally, broadcast.com and […]

Digital River signed a distribution partnership agreement with Value America, consumer shopping site on the Internet, for the sale of products from Digital River’s software inventory through Value America’s online store. Value America is adding software to its consumer product offering by accessing Digital River’s online inventory of more than 120,000 software products. Financial terms […]

N2K’s online music store Music Boulevard has revised its Affiliates Program. The program now allows individual sites on the Internet to create a co-branded version of Music Boulevard to earn commissions for every purchase that originates from the link on the affiliate’s site. Affiliates now may sign-up multiple sites in order to combine sales totals […]

Software BuyLine, formerly TestDrive Corp., launched the company’s flagship Internet software store, Software BuyLine.com. The store was created to offer utilities, games, Web tools and productivity titles. The company also said that it has secured an additional $5 million in financing led by New York-based venture capital firm Roberts & Green, bringing total funding for […]