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CyberCash (Nasdaq: CYCH), today announced that it received US$10 million in capital funding to support the launch of its new InstaBuysm e-commerce service. The new service is an addition to the CyberCash online payment system, which allows online stores to process credit card payments from online sh...

Equifax (NYSE: EFX), best known for its consumer credit reporting services, will begin offering e-commerce security technology for Internet transactions. The suite of new services, known as Equifax Secure E-Commerce Solutions, is based on IBM Vault Registry technology and provides protection against...

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) has introduced a number of new e-commerce services to help companies reduce the risk of doing business over the Internet. Such services will be essential to the continued growth of electronic commerce, since fraud and security concerns still plague merchants, as well as consumers...

SkyMall Inc. (Nasdaq:SKYM) launched skymall.com, a wholly owned subsidiary that will focus on e-commerce, direct online sales, and distribution of its consumer products to online resellers. By late morning Thursday, the company's stock soared 30% on this news.

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) unveiled a new e-commerce Web hosting and design business this week with the debut of Complete Commerce, a packaged e-commerce solution aimed at medium-sized to large enterprise businesses. Complete Commerce includes the hardware, software, service and training compone...

CyberShop International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYSP), whose online stores include Egift.com, saw its fourth quarter revenues skyrocket to $3.4 million, four times 1997's fourth quarter sales of $847,000. What drove this revenue increase? None other than Furby.

Wrapping up a banner year, where total Internet sales grew by as much as 300%, CyberSource Corporation saw its volume of e-commerce transactions balloon more than 937%, outpacing the growth of overall Internet sales. Completed transactions shot up to 8,330,743 for 1998 from 888,000 in 1997.

The E-Commerce Times has entered into a news content and revenue-sharing agreement with Internet Wire, Inc. Under the agreement, the E-Commerce Times will provide co-branded pages containing daily e-commerce news headlines, to be linked from Internet Wire's main homepage and from Internet Wire's new...

America Online, Inc., the world's leading e-commerce portal, has entered an agreement with CBS Corporation making CBS News the exclusive provider of broadcast news for AOL and CompuServe, and the premier provider of broadcast news on AOL.com.

Today brings more happy holiday news for e-commerce sites. According to part four of a Media Metrix study, toy and apparel sites experienced the most growth in unique visitors during the four-week holiday shopping period from November 27 to December 24, up 86% and 73% respectively. Overall, the numb...

Ecommercesoft is offering merchants the chance to put their businesses online without spending lots of money on Web design services, and new software and hardware. SohoStore SE can be setup in about 30 minutes, free of charge, and Ecommercesoft will provide the Web hosting services for US$39/month (...

Wareforce One, Inc. (OTC BB:WFRC), a provider of computer equipment and services for government, higher education and business, says that Los Angeles County is now ready to buy its products online, using a new web-based procurement system.

America Online saw plenty of holiday cheer this past month, according to sales figures released today. AOL reports that its members spent over $1 billion with AOL retailers during the six weeks of the 1998 holiday shopping season. Over one million AOL members were shopping online for the first time.

Today, Zona Research, in conjunction with IntelliQuest, released results of a study of the buying habits and attitudes of over one thousand Internet users during 1998 holiday buying season.

Audio Book Club, Inc. (AMEX: KLB) expects to more than double its annual revenues through the acquisition of the Columbia House Audiobook Club. This acquisition is an important component of the company's growth as an e-commerce presence, better positioning it to compete with major online booksellers...