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Byline: VICKI M. YOUNG Vente-Privée USA Latest to Enter Flash Sale Market NEW YORK The American flash sale market just got a little more crowded. Vente-Privée USA, the joint venture [...]

Open Business Solutions, an IT solutions provider has formed a new partnership with X-TANT, a UK-based subsidiary of international network specialist NTL to launch an integrated solution called CALIDUS-e. This [...]

Httprint (San Francisco), a provider of e-commerce solutions that automate print procurement and management, and the Envelope Div. of paper producer Westvaco Corp. (New York City) have formed an alliance [...]

WWRE INKS ALLIANCE: The WorldWide Retail Exchange (WWRE) has entered into a strategic alliance with UDEX, a company specializing in standardized product descriptions for electronic commerce. 'This alliance will allow [...]

Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) says it has formed a joint venture with online exchange PetroCosm to create a procurement exchange for the Brazilian oil and gas industry. The companies say [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Optio(R) Software Inc., a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software that enables organizations to communicate with 100 percent of their trading partners and systems, and Providence's daly.commerce, a [...]

LEWISVILLE -- TradeMC, a new e-commerce joint venture between industry giants IBM and Fluor Corp., plans to establish its headquarters in Lewisville. TradeMC, which launched about a month ago, will [...]

The joint venture hopes to tap into a market with a $100 million-plus potential. Peco Energy Co.'s venture capital arm and a unit of insurance giant Ace Ltd. have launched [...]

Cushman & Wakefield and Zeborg announced that they have jointly formed FacilitiesWork. Operating as a subsidiary of Zeborg, FacilitiesWork will create an e-commerce marketplace designed to deliver product savings and [...]

Online grocer LMS headhunts new head of marketing to develop home-shopping joint venture web project Online grocer Last Mile Solutions has begun work on developing a new e-brand for its [...]

Six leading derivatives players have announced plans to form a network and standard protocols to allow interest rate derivatives to be traded electronically thereby producing significant improvement in efficiencies. Six [...]

Europe's first Internet only bank, First-e, and Singapore's Overseas Union Bank (OUB) have announced a 50/50 joint venture to establish the first standalone Internet bank in the Asia Pacific region. [...]

E-COMMERCE COMPANY Chapters Online will join forces with Canada's public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., to promote Canadian literature. Under the new marketing agreement, visitors to Chapters.ca's site will be [...]

Domino's Pizza has been approached by more than 60 e-tailers interested in using its fleet of mopeds to deliver online purchases to customers. The retailer is in preliminary talks with [...]

Chase Manhattan Corp.'s global custody unit said Tuesday that it has formed a $20 million joint venture with Investia, a London-based e-commerce company, to create mutual fund supermarkets for European [...]

E. I. DUPONT de Nemours & Co. and Chemdex Corporation have formed Industria Solutions, a new business-to-business e-commerce company intended to streamline the procurement of materials for the $75 billion [...]

UtiliSave, LLC, an industry leader in utility bill auditing and cost recovery services for commercial, multi-family residential and institutional properties, announces an alliance with the clients of Klik.com, LLC, the [...]

Econex LLC, a new electronic commerce venture involving KeyCorp and NOVA Corp., was scheduled to go live Oct. 5 with about 50 companies. The Independence, Ohio, venture was formed earlier [...]

SEATTLE--XyPoint Corp. and Wireless Services Corp. said they have formed a technology alliance to develop a secure technology platform called Web Wireless, which will enable consumers to conduct transactions through [...]

A mobile commerce system that combines smart cards with the GSM telephone standard won a Financial Times 1998 Global Telecommunications Award for most innovative mobile product. The system was jointly [...]

The Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, or LISTA, and the Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce, or HISCEC, have joined forces in an effort to promote adoption of more technology [...]

IBM and Navision have announced a new global alliance to' deliver affordable, integrated e-business solutions to growing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The agreement will combine IBM's eServer products with [...]

Cartel Marketing and Turbocoverage Inc., two dealer point-of-sale auto insurance marketers, formed a new company to provide online insurance to car buyers in dealerships. The new company, Expresslink Inc., combines [...]

Tesco-backed iVillage.co.uk and Sports.com have linked with online shopping-mall provider Altura International to develop their e-commerce offerings. Altura International builds and manages customised shopping channels for third parties with around [...]

Georgina Curran and Petra Vester founded Lbdtogo.com in 1999 selling little black dresses. They wish to increase turnover by forming partnerships with other electronic retailers and are seeking advice on the best way of doing this.

Six major sporting goods and sports apparel retailers have partnered with Global Sports to form Global Sports Interactive (GSI), which will manage the electronic commerce operations of these chains. These are Sport Chalet, The Sports Authority, MC Sports, The Athletes Foot, Sports and Recreation and a still unnamed retailer. Under the deal, the chains' existing Websites will be redesigned by GSI without any required investments from the six retailers. Moreover, GSI will handle all e-commerce aspects to the sites, including warehousing, ordering and distribution for each site., NEW YORK - Last month when five major sports retailers announced they will outsource their e-commerce operations to footwear marketer Global Sports, more questions seemed to have been downloaded than [...]

Berkeley design firm Addis Group has inked an alliance with e-business consulting firm Scient in a major expansion of its high-tech branding business. The non-exclusive partnership will focus on building [...]

Expanding its electronic commerce portfolio, Banctec Inc. last week announced it will do systems integration for the electronic bill presentment and payment services of MSFDC, the joint venture of First [...]

Ticketmaster and online music retailer N2K have entered a two-year music retailing and marketing partnership worth about $12 million. Under the deal, Ticketmaster and N2K's Music Boulevard online division will [...]

Europay International said it will work with Barclays Bank of London to process Internet transactions using smart cards that meet the EMV standard. EMV, based on an agreement among Europay, [...]

Some of Chase Manhattan Corp.'s interests in corporate payment services and on-line commerce converge in a joint venture called Intelisys Electronic Commerce. Chase has a 50% stake in the company, [...]

CyberCash, Inc., based in Reston, VA, has established a beachhead in Japan, forming a joint venture called CyberCash K.K. with a group of Japanese banks and corporations, including Softbank Corp., [...]

SAP America, Philadelphia, and Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., have announced a joint venture to assist retailers in processing orders and manag- ing inventory for on-line electronic commerce. At a [...]