Today’s Deals: Via Net.Works Expands to France

  
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  NEW YORK, Oct. 11–Muriel F. Siebert, chairman and chief executive
  officer of Siebert Financial, announced the
  creation of a women’s financial Web site and the purchase of two women’s
  Web sites, W
• FN.com and HerDollar.com, that will serve as the
  foundation for the new site. WFN, or
  Women’s Financial Network, incorporates trading-either online, phone or in
  person-including buying and selling of stocks, bonds and mutual funds, as
  well as free checking, online bill-paying and the ability to aggregate all
  their accounts on one site, while HerDollar.com was created to educate
  women about investing, estate planning, insurance, loans, banking,
  retirement planning and other critical financial topics. The company did
  not disclose the purchase terms. For more analysis, see Kelly Black’s
  
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  RESTON, Va., Oct. 11–VIA NET.WORKS, an
  international single-source provider of Internet access and services
  focusing on businesses in Europe, Latin America and the United States,
  announces the acquisition of Symphonie S.A., which does business
  under the trade name M.Net. Founded in 1995, M.Net provides a full
  complement of business-focused Internet services from its base in
  Montpellier, France. The acquisition of M.Net will allow VIA NET.WORKS to exp
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  presence in France.
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  NEW YORK, Oct. 11–Internet Financial Network and
  EntryPoint announced that they have agreed to merge their existing
  business operations into a newly created entity, Infogate. The flagship product for the
  new company, Infogate 4.0, will combine the best features from the
  pre-existing companies’ products and is expected to launch with an
  installed base of more than one million users later this month. Terms of
  the transaction were not disclosed.
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  PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 11–CyberSight, an Internet professional
  services firm, announced that it has acquired Nine Dots, an Irvine,
  Calif.-based interactive marketing and consulting firm that provides
  integrated brand development services to the high technology, automotive
  and healthcare industries and Global 1000 businesses. The companies’
  combined resources will provide marketers an enhanced suite of tools and
  services to help them build relevant relationships with their customers.
  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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  RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 11– Shoedini.com announced that it has
  acquired the inventory of MyFavoriteShoe.com, which includes
  inventory of more than 5,000 pairs of well-known, brand-name shoes like
  Bruno Magli, Mezlan, Florsheim, Dexter, and Clarks. The purchase of MyFavoriteShoe.com’s inventory is
  expected to help Shoedini.com to
  achieve its vision of becoming the category killer of branded footwear in
  the realm of e-commerce. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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  LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11–YellowOnline.com, an Internet yellow
  pages, announced that it has acquired the Yellow Pages operations of
  Novavision, a leading print Yellow Pages publisher in French Polynesia
  (Tahiti) and in French-speaking West Africa, in a stock transaction. During
  the first quarter of 2001, YellowOnline.com plans to begin online
  publication of the French Polynesian and West African yellow pages
  directories and expects a positive revenue stream from both the print and
  the online publications in these markets. Terms of the transaction were not
  disclosed.
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  WASHINGTON, Oct. 11–Away.com, an online destination for
  extraordinary travel, announced the acquisition of Burlington,
  Vermont-based Adventuroustraveler.com, a supplier of travel
  merchandise including books, videos, CD-Roms and maps for the experiential
  traveler. Adventuroustraveler.com will
  function as the gear-merchandising division of Away.com; further terms of the all-stock
  deal were not disclosed. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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  WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Oct. 11–Need2Buy, an online
  marketplace for the electronic components industry, announced that it has
  acquired Unimate Electronics GmbH, a component trading and
  fulfillment company, based in Munich, Germany. This strategic acquisition
  provides Need2Buy with the operations
  infrastructure, region-specific expertise and extensive customer
  relationships to further drive the company’s expansion in the European
  market. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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  ANDOVER, Oct. 11–CMGion, an emerging Internet operating
  network designed to enhance the performance and functionality of
  application and content delivery over the Internet, and a majority-owned
  operating company of CMGI, announced that it has
  acquired AdForce, an online provider of centralized, outsourced ad
  management and delivery services. CMGion will license and deploy key
  components of AdForce’s technology
  within its emerging network platform, furthering CMGion’s core business
  focus to enhance the speed, performance and functionality of the Internet
  by enabling a global platform that allows content transformation,
  applications and profiling to be executed at “the edge.”
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  LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 11–Active.com, an online registration
  company for participatory sports and recreational activities, has signed a
  definitive agreement to merge with Sierra Digital, developer of RecWare, a recreation management software
  product used by more than 1,000 park and recreation agencies, college and
  university sports departments and military installations nationwide. The
  merger will significantly broaden Active.com’s customer base, enabling the
  company to offer online registration capabilities to SDI’s existing RecWare
  customers.
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