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Speaking before the American Antitrust Institute Conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Robert Pitofsky said that government enforcement of antitrust laws in the high-tech sector is critical to continued economic growth.

Latin American electronic commerce is poised to skyrocket to $15 billion (US$) by 2003, according to a new study by New York-based research firm eMarketer.

As federal regulators scrutinize its proposed merger with entertainment powerhouse Time Warner, Internet giant America Online (NYSE: AOL) is moving forward with plans to integrate the Web with non-PC technologies.

The disparity in Internet use among different ethnic groups in the United States is likely to "close significantly" within five years, according to a new study by New York-based research firm Jupiter Communications (Nasdaq: JPTR).

A group of 12 major Hollywood studios is asking a federal court to stop RecordTV.com from transmitting movies and TV shows over the Internet without acquiring distribution rights.

Viewed from any angle, immigration is a divisive issue. Unfortunately, politicians on both sides of the fence now have the power to sap considerable energy from the United States' high-tech fueled economy -- making immigration policies everyone's problem.

America Online, Inc. took its first step toward allowing open access to its popular instant messaging (IM) system with the submission on Thursday of an 18-page proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an industry panel that will eventually approve a standard for adoption.

A consortium of 49 consumer product companies announced Wednesday the formation of Transora.com, a business-to-business (B2B) online marketplace to be launched this fall.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday that would make most electronic signatures over the Internet as legal and binding as written signatures on paper.

In what is being labeled as the largest securities fraud crackdown ever undertaken, U.S. federal authorities have charged members of organized crime families and others in a wide-ranging scheme that included fraudulently promoting stocks on Web sites and falsely touting companies as "dot-coms."

Spurred on by the acquisition of Lycos by Terra Networks SA, Yahoo! will take an "aggressive and opportunistic" approach to moving into the European market this year, according to co-founder Jerry Yang.

A recent report from the Pew Research Center rattled cages in the offices of TV news programs with the headline-making revelation that a third of Americans get news from the Internet every week. But the survey should serve as a wake-up call for e-commerce companies as well.

Further fueling the Asia-Pacific region's high-tech boom, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) announced separate partnerships with major Japanese companies Thursday.

An anti-spam bill that could have a wide-reaching effect on online marketing is one step closer to becoming law following the U.S. House Commerce Committee's vote Wednesday.

BET.com announced Wednesday that it has forged an alliance with mortgage loan financier Fannie Mae and lenders Cendant Mortgage and HomeSide Lending, Inc. to offer an online service for African-American homebuyers.