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eMarketplace, announced that it completed the acquisition of iMark.com Inc. including assets of
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The monthly directory, which is hundreds of pages long, has been referred to as "the bible of the used and surplus capital equipment industry". Postings were included online in the 1980s and online auctions started in 1999. A year later, in April 2000, FreeMarkets Inc. (Nasdaq: FMKT), a leading B2B
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