Juan Carlos Perez

Borland Software Corp. has entered into a cross-marketing agreement with eBay Inc. to promote software development kits (SDKs) from eBay and its PayPal unit among Borland developers, the companies plan to announce Wednesday.

eAccess Ltd., a Tokyo-based broadband wholesale provider, has signed a definitive agreement with AOL Japan Inc. and America Online Inc. to buy AOL Japan's Internet service provider business, eAccess announced Monday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has acquired IT Infrastructure Management LLC in Dallas, which does business as ManageOne, and CEC Europe Service Management Ltd. in London, so that it can strengthen its ability to train clients on how to best manage their IT resources, the company announced Thursday.

Spending on business process outsourcing (BPO) services will continue to increase in coming years, but so will clients' expectations for the quality and breadth of vendors' offerings, according to an IDC study released Wednesday.

PayPal Inc., a provider of online payment services, is providing application programming interfaces (APIs) to let third-party developers and merchants build applications that integrate with the PayPal system, the company announced Monday

Art Technology Group Inc. (ATG) is adding a pair of tools to its Web development suite designed, respectively, to provide online customer service to consumers and to help companies fine-tune their online marketing initiatives.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has entered the business process outsourcing (BPO) market with a bang, expecting to finalize a deal in April to manage The Procter & Gamble Co.'s (P&G's) accounts payable activities worldwide, an HP executive said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp.'s Latin America unit has launched a free, online training program aimed at giving IT professionals a basic-to-intermediate understanding of some Microsoft software.