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For all your questions on how to put your business online, drive traffic to your site or how to improve your overall business performance, let us offer you a solution for all your business needs in one of the areas to the right.

ICANN to Tax You?
Tax and government watchdog groups are arguing that Congress should investigate fees ICANN plans to charge anyone with a dot com domain name (Wired)

Internet Power Shifts Toward Individuals
There's a potential -- and in some cases actual -- radical shift in power, as individuals use technology to wrest control over information and resources (New York Times -- Requires free Registration)

Thousands of small businesses hit by Web site 'cramming' scam
Thousands of small business owners have lost millions of dollars in the past two years after responding to a phone call from firms offering to design a Web site for them for free (Tech Server)

Williams-Sonoma to Sell Wares on Epicurious Site
The kitchen furnishings retailer signed a multiyear agreement to sell cookware over CondeNet's Epicurious Web site, a leading online food site (SF Gate)

Web Food Sites Put Service Where Your Mouth Is
Online food delivery services have come to the rescue of those tired of scavenging through their junk drawer for old menus (SF Gate)

European Ecommerce to Top USD8.6 Billion
The Western European consumer online shopping market will be worth USD775 million by the end of this year, increasing to a total value of USD8.6 billion by 2003 (NUA)

Repeat Web Business Registers
Once considered merely a tool in collecting audience demographics, registration is coming to be a metric gauging how deep loyalty runs for specific Web brands (ZDNet)

Mixing Teen Cool With E-commerce Savvy
A new breed of Web businesses like CTI, MXG and Alloy Online are talking teenspeak (Industry Standard)

No Place Like the Home Page for the Holidays
Last holiday season saw some surprising and staggering numbers for online shopping and small business e-marketers better get ready for more to come (Ecommerce Times)

Net, Furniture Sellers Not Such Strange Bedfellows
With the imminent entry of a second major online furniture store, this once-unlikely category for Internet retailing is heating up (CNet)

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