Reuters have jointly announced the launch of online news reports for corporate Web sites. Trials will be held in northeast England, allowing the buying and selling of small items online.
Internet auctions are successful businesses in the U.S. and are beginning to take off in Britain.
Newsquest will use software from Auction Universe, an American company, to conduct the auctions. All the search engines, and even the family-oriented sites Parents. Com, are inaccessible to Chinese Internet users. Excite already has alliances with Itochu in Japan, Liberty One in Australia and is in the advanced stages of a venture with Telecom Italia. Excite said it had 13 million global registered users, achieved 50 million page views per day, and had 34 million unique user profiles.