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The battle for the European online auction market intensified Tuesday, as Britain's QXL (Nasdaq: QXLC) announced that it will acquire Germany's Ricardo.de AG in a stock deal valued at $1 billion (US$).

One has to wonder if America Online CEO Steve Case and Time Warner Chairman Gerald Levin were both asleep at the switch earlier this month when Time Warner decided to yank Disney-owned ABC's programming because of a contract dispute.

Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch (TMCS) continued its aggressive move into electronic commerce Monday with the unveiling of a service that will allow users to purchase tickets using such mobile communication devices as telephones, personal digital assistants and pagers.

A survey of trial lawyers and judges by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that few companies are prepared to comply with a subpoena demanding production of their digital files for use in litigation, even though most companies store up to 70 percent of their records in electronic form.

According to a new study by the Strategis Group, nearly 33 percent of cell phone users who responded said they would pay an additional $13 (US$) per month or more to surf the Internet on their phones.

Following examples set by the computer, steel, automotive and airline industries, 14 of the world's largest mining companies say they will form an online business-to-business (B2B) exchange to cut procurement costs.

Wit SoundView, the online investment banking subsidiary of the Wit Capital Group (Nasdaq: WITC), has agreed to buy online investment firm E*Offering in a stock deal valued at $328 million (US$).

America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE: AN) announced plans Monday to form what the companies claim will be the world's largest virtual car dealership.

The National Trade Union Corporation (NTUC) of Singapore has agreed to provide 300,000 low-cost PCs to its members through a partnership with PeoplePC.

As Philippine government efforts to solve the Love Bug virus mystery progress at a snail's pace, representatives of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations are meeting in Paris today to discuss coordinated efforts to fight cybercrime.

With the holiday season dust long settled and several prominent e-tailers fighting for survival, this year's Mother's Day may well prove to be a turning point for e-commerce.

The Walt Disney Company asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) late Thursday to place "meaningful and enforceable conditions" on the proposed merger between America Online and Time Warner.

Every computer maker great and small seems to have contemplated the same holy grail: To make an inexpensive machine that will connect users to the Internet and allow them to send and receive e-mail. That's it. No complex, breakdown-prone hard drives, no bundled software to choose. Just a machine for...

In an effort to broaden its sales beyond microprocessors, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced plans Thursday to build a $200 million (US$) streaming media business that will allow customers to broadcast anything from financial briefings to feature films over the Web.

A new study by scientists from IBM Research, Compaq Corporate Research Laboratories and AltaVista presents a comprehensive "map" of the World Wide Web, and uncovers inadequate linking between regions of the Internet that can make navigation difficult -- or in some cases, impossible.