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![]() eBay opens curtains on Great Collections eBay launched a high-end site called Great Collections, one of the first fruits of buying venerable auction house Butterfield & Butterfield but yet another expansionary move. Amazon.com, which announced a ten-year deal with Butterfield rival Sotheby's in June, is expected to launch its own premium auction site in coordination with Sotheby's later this year.(News.com) |
| Trading Online Site to allow fixed-dollar stock buys Netstock Direct Wednesday will announce an online trading site that lets investors buy a fixed-dollar sum of stock on a weekly or monthly schedule for only $2 a trade. The ShareBuilder.com site, scheduled to open next month, also will let investors buy fractions of shares if the dollar amount they're investing isn't enough to cover a full share.(USA Today) UK warning on day trading Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, said 70% of day traders in the United States lost money and it was important that people were aware of the risks and understood the expenses needed to stand any chance of making a profit. (BBC) |
| Media Dow Jones, Hearst to invest $30M in Smartmoney.Com SmartMoney magazine owners Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and Hearst Corp. said Tuesday they will invest a total of $30 million to expand the Internet edition of the personal finance monthly. (SiliconValley.com) |
| Italy Free Internet powers Italy mini-boom Italian Internet leader Telecom Italia gave a glimpse of strapping cyberspace growth in Italy Tuesday when it forecast users doubling by year-end, powered by the success of free Internet access. (SiliconValley.com) |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica Joins the Internet Age The Encyclopaedia Britannica, afraid of becoming just a dusty relic of the precomputer age, announced it was making its 32-volume set available free on the Internet. (NY Times) |
| Religion Filters for Religious Groups Evangelical Christian groups were quick to embrace filtered Internet service providers, which block access troublesome online material for their subscribers. Now two companies are launching filtered ISPs aimed at Roman Catholics. Catholic Online and Catholic Families Network . (NY Times) |
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