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As the investigation into last week's denial-of-service (DoS) hacker attacks narrows its focus today, U.S. President Bill Clinton is expected to propose a new Internet security center at a meeting with high-tech executives.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and National Association of Attorneys General have banded together with other government agencies to aggressively seek out and prosecute perpetrators of online auction fraud.

Encouraging online shopping leads to declining loyalty, fewer referrals and lower profits as users negotiate Web sites that "would give Kafka pause," according to a report conducted by a Canadian research firm.

America Online, Inc. has denied a claim by well-respected San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor that it is backing off its promise to support open access to broadband cable systems.

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. announced a $2.3 billion (US$) initiative Monday that will target electronic commerce and Internet content businesses.

Last Friday, shares of online bookseller Fatbrain.com lost one-third of their value when three brokerage firms downgraded their investment rating on the stock.

Online auto vendor Autobytel (Nasdaq: ABTL) announced today that it is forming a new venture to sell cars in Australia with a variety of well-known auto industry partners.

The Cleo Products Group, an Interface Systems (Nasdaq: INTF) company that provides business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce communications tools, has joined the growing corporate migration to Linux by adding support for the open-source platform to its Cleo 3780Plus product.

According to research firm Nielsen//NetRatings, this year's online Valentine's Day shoppers clearly preferred niche sites to online superstores.

With a marketing slogan that reads "The most trusted name in e-security," RSA Security, Inc. (Nasdaq:RSAS) already suffered some loss of face early Sunday morning when it discovered that one of its servers had been compromised by pranksters whose hobby it is to deface Web pages. Then it happened aga...

Mammoth coffee retailer Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) has launched a conservative foray into e-commerce by announcing a five-year e-commerce agreement with Internet home delivery service Kozmo.com.

According to a study released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers, venture capital funding in the United States increased nearly 150 percent to $35.6 billion (US$) last year, with Internet-related companies drawing 56 percent of that total.

Linux software solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) has expanded its European business apparatus by establishing Red Hat France and Red Hat Italy.

Despite the recent barrage of hacker attacks on high profile e-commerce sites, online shoppers have continued to buy products and services -- albeit more cautiously -- over the Internet.

Online toy giant eToys, Inc. disclosed last week that it has become the subject of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into its business practices.