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U.S. Governors Urged To Keep Pace with E-Commerce

A number of software company owners, corporate executives and other key players in the technology landscape strongly encouraged U.S. governors to keep better pace with the new economy and electronic commerce at a weekend meeting of the National Governors' Association (NGA) in Washington, D.C ...

Big Three Automakers Form Joint Internet Venture

Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler stunned the automotive and e-commerce worlds Friday by agreeing to form a single online business-to-business (B2B) trading network ...

Motorola Re-Emerges as Wireless E-Commerce Player

In an effort to solidify its position as a major player in wireless electronic commerce, Motorola, Inc. unveiled plans this week to introduce technology that will make all of its mobile phones Internet ready by the end of this year ...

Baby Bells Jump into B2B Marketplace

Hot on the heels of the acquisition of business-to-business (B2B) software provider Sterling Commerce by telecom giant SBC Communications, two other former "Baby Bells" have jumped into similar waters ...

Internet Tax Panel Chief Denies Backing Compromise

Virginia Governor James Gilmore, the head of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC), said Wednesday afternoon that he is not backing off his opposition to taxation on the Internet as was widely reported ...

Internet Credit Cards Boom While Banking Struggles

By all accounts, the much-ballyhooed concept of online banking is still struggling to assert itself. In fact, according to a recent report by research firm eMarketer, about half of all customers who sign up for online banking cancel the service ...

Antitrust Judge Likens Microsoft to Standard Oil

District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow in its ongoing antitrust trial yesterday by comparing the software company to John D. Rockefeller's 19th century Standard Oil monopoly that was broken up by the U.S. government some 90 years ago ...

Microsoft Trial Enters Closing Arguments

With no predictable resolution in sight, the Microsoft antitrust trial is scheduled to hear closing arguments in Washington, D.C. today ...

Valentine’s Day Online: Heartaches and Delays

Despite claims of readiness for the Valentine's Day shopping rush by many leading e-tailers, Internet performance monitoring firm Keynote, Inc. has found that many of those sites failed to live up to expectations ...

FTC Launches Investigation into DoubleClick

Controversial Internet advertising agency DoubleClick, Inc. disclosed Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an inquiry into its methods of gathering and using information about online consumers ...

U.S. Attorney General Labels Cybercrime a ‘Critical Issue’

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary Wednesday that cracking down on cybercrime is "one of the most critical issues that law enforcement has ever faced." ...

CheckFree Acquires TransPoint for $1B+

With an eye toward making online bill paying the norm rather than the exception, Internet billing and payments provider CheckFree Corp. announced Tuesday that it has forged a deal to buy TransPoint in a stock deal valued at well over $1 billion (US$) ...

U.S. Targets Online Auction Fraud

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and National Association of Attorneys General have banded together with other government agencies to aggressively seek out and prosecute perpetrators of online auction fraud ...

Toshiba Launches $2.3B Internet Business Initiative

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. announced a $2.3 billion (US$) initiative Monday that will target electronic commerce and Internet content businesses ...

Online Shoppers Not Swayed by Hacker Attacks

Despite the recent barrage of hacker attacks on high profile e-commerce sites, online shoppers have continued to buy products and services -- albeit more cautiously -- over the Internet ...

FTC Probe Compounds eToys’ Woes

Online toy giant eToys, Inc. disclosed last week that it has become the subject of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into its business practices ...

Hacker Attacks Will Bring Profits to Insurance and Security Firms

This week's denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on high profile Web sites such as Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon.com have the potential to translate into future profits for companies that offer protective online services such as insurance and security software ...

Business Leaders Seek To Break E-Tax Deadlock

The six electronic commerce business members on the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) tried yesterday to strike a compromise between deadlocked groups by urging the U.S. Congress to extend the current tax moratorium on Internet sales for five more years ...

U.S. Insurance Giants: Declare Net a Free-Trade Zone

At a summit meeting in Washington, D.C. this week, the three largest commercial insurance trade associations in the United States called upon the government to refrain from erecting regulatory barriers to insurance e-commerce and recommended 12 principles to be followed in its regulation of the industry ...

Wireless Credit Cards: How Soon and How Pervasive?

Last week, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) announced plans to make a "virtual credit card" developed by Trintech (Nasdaq:TPPA) available on its lines of mobile phones. By pushing a button or issuing a voice command like "buy" or "pay," mobile users will be able to complete e-commerce transactions in seconds via their virtual cards ...

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