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Cendant Corporation's move.com relocation, real estate, and home-related services portal has joined forces with AltaVista to create a co-branded real estate channel on AltaVista's Live! personalized portal service. The new channel will offer move.com's services, leveraging Cendant's relocation, real estate,
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RR Donnelley & Sons Co. and Noosh Inc. have formed an alliance to co-develop Internet portals for Donnelley customers, while Coleman Powermate Inc. and Ballard Power Systems are collaborating to develop portable and standby power products using fuel cells. EFC Bancorp Inc. plans to repurchase up to 5% of its
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Companies like Ask Jeeves, Inc. and Cybex Computer Products Corporation have decided to broadcast their quarterly earnings conferences over the internet, a first for the industry at the time. This move allows investors to access and participate in these vital corporate events from the comfort of their own homes. The
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IBM and ADP have announced the launch of myautogarage.com, a web-based service that connects millions of motorists with auto dealers and manufacturers to simplify vehicle maintenance and management. This first-of-its-kind service enables users to schedule service appointments, access binding price quotes, and view service histories for their vehicles, all
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Four of the world's leading business executives, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Chris Gent of Vodafone AirTouch, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Keiji Tachikawa of NTT DoCoMo, will take center stage at the CTIA's WIRELESS 2000 convention and expo. The event, which will be held from
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As the year 2000 begins, Hong Kong is on the cusp of an e-commerce revolution, driven by advancements in technology and a supportive government framework. Recent seminars on e-commerce have shifted from discussing the benefits to concentrating on implementation, the latest technologies, and business models. The establishment of local certification
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Microsoft Corporation has teamed up with retail giant barnesandnoble.com to make thousands of e-book titles available for use with Microsoft's proprietary "Reader" software. By this summer, customers of barnesandnoble.com will be able to select from a variety of book titles for use on desktop
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Artistsdirect Inc., a leading online music company, announced that it has received $97.5 million in equity investments from six major music and media companies. Universal Music Group, BMG Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Cisneros Television Group, and Yahoo! Inc. have taken stakes in the company, expanding the
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Microsoft Corporation and Internet Gold, an Israeli Internet service provider, are collaborating on the launch of a Hebrew-language version of the MSN Web portal, known as MSN Israel. The partnership, announced in October, has resulted in a significant spike in Internet Gold's stock price, with shares increasing by
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Hewlett-Packard China's (CHP) recent launch of its e-commerce sites, including www.e-sme.com.cn, is a significant step towards capturing the attention of the Chinese market. In cooperation with INT'L.com Asia's ChinaConnect Web authoring team, CHP aimed to create a platform that would
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AlphaTrade's subsidiary, NetStream Inc., has developed a product solution enabling all Internet networks to upgrade from the antiquated IPv4 standard to the new IPv6 standard. This upgrade is crucial as IPv4 is running out of IP addresses, causing problems for E-Commerce expansion and internet accessibility. NetStreamV6 solves this
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The partnership between Net2Phone and Switchboard aims to revolutionize the way people communicate over the internet. The collaboration will enable Switchboard's users to make phone calls anywhere in the world over the Internet, saving up to 95 percent on traditional long distance calls. The technology, known as Click2Talk,
