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  • Pets.com to buy assets of rival Petstore.com
  • Safeway Seals Online Groceries Pact With GroceryWorks
  • Toysrus.com moves to balance seasonal business
  • EBay To Buy Online Trading Site Half.com
  • iVillage Confirms Plans to Sell iBaby Unit
  • Barnesandnoble.com invests in MightyWords
  • WebEx aims to raise $40 million in IPO
  • J.D. Edwards signs e-commerce pacts with IBM, Sun
  • E*Trade in cahoots with Web chat company
  • Ariba to acquire SupplierMarket.com in stock deal
  • Lycos To Wed Matchmaker?
  • AOL To Invest $200 Million in TiVo
  • eCircles Teams with Compaq
  • AOL, Target Announce Alliance
  • Salon Flies with EarthLink
  • PSINet Completes Metamor Acquisition
  • AOL, musicmaker.com end marketing relationship

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Pets.com to buy assets of rival Petstore.com
Pets.com is now the big dog of online pet stores, announcing today that it is buying the assets of rival Petstore.com.

Safeway Seals Online Groceries Pact With GroceryWorks
Safeway Inc., the Fortune 50 food and drug retailing company with 1,663 stores in North America, has finalized a previously-announced $30 million deal with GroceryWorks, a Dallas-based Internet groceries distribution company.

Toysrus.com moves to balance seasonal business
Toysrus.com has inked a deal with Nickelodeon to launch a Nickelodeon boutique channel on its Web site. Toysrus.com will also acquire the inventory of its former rival, Viacom-owned Red Rocket, which shut its virtual doors in May.

EBay To Buy Online Trading Site Half.com
Online auction site eBay said Tuesday it agreed to buy Half.com, another online trading place, where consumers sell used books, CDs, and movies, typically at half off the list price.

iVillage Confirms Plans to Sell iBaby Unit
The online women's network said it is in talks to sell the e-commerce unit to BabyGear.com.

Barnesandnoble.com invests in MightyWords
Online bookseller Barnesandnoble.com has shelled out $20 million for an equity stake in MightyWords, an electronic publisher of short works.

WebEx aims to raise $40 million in IPO
The 5-year-old company intends to sell an 11 percent stake for $12 to $14 per share.

J.D. Edwards signs e-commerce pacts with IBM, Sun
The struggling business-software maker will work with the two computing giants and two other companies to boost its prospects in online trading exchanges.

E*Trade in cahoots with Web chat company
The online brokerage will announce tomorrow that it has signed a deal with Cahoots and has made an equity investment in the instant messaging company.

Ariba to acquire SupplierMarket.com in stock deal
update Ariba agrees to issue about 6.3 million shares of stock to buy the online marketplace in a deal worth about $581 million.

Lycos To Wed Matchmaker?
A website report has the Waltham portal set to announce next week the acquisition of the personal ad site for $45 million.

AOL To Invest $200 Million in TiVo
Companies to develop AOL-branded set-top boxes

eCircles Teams with Compaq
eCircles, the Redwood City-based virtual community site, has partnered with Compaq to provide community building and sharing service to my Presario computer users.

AOL, Target Announce Alliance
Retailer to push AOL as ISP

Salon Flies with EarthLink
Salon.com, announces a content agreement with EarthLink.

PSINet Completes Metamor Acquisition
Shareholders approve all-stock deal

AOL, musicmaker.com end marketing relationship
The hits just keep coming for musicmaker.com, but they're not the sort the custom compilation CD Web site welcomes. Following news of a class action suit and a stock price plunging to the bottom of the charts, its marketing deal with America Online is now history.

 

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