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This election season's flock of presidential hopefuls could learn a lot by watching how CEOs of high-tech companies spin bad news into sunshine.

Fighting back against cyber-squatters who they say have fraudulently appropriated versions of sports franchise names to rake in money, a group representing Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League have filed a lawsuit ag...

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Server appliance developer Cobalt Networks (Nasdaq: COBT) announced this week that it will tap the services of RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS) to enable secure e-commerce applications on its servers.

U.S. Congressman Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), who has spent years battling cable operators over rising rates and anti-competitive programming contracts, has teamed with former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and the openNET Coalition of Internet service providers to support a state ballot initia...

In yet another addition to its "AOL Anywhere" strategy, America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it will acquire online map provider MapQuest.com (Nasdaq: MQST) in a $1.1 billion (US$) stock deal.

A new study released this week by The Boston Consulting Group shows that 25 percent of all business-to-business purchases will be made online by 2003.

According to a new study by Andersen Consulting, a staggering 27 percent of attempted online sales failed because Web sites couldn't handle the crush of holiday orders.

You know the price wars that occasionally break out between gas station owners on opposite corners of an intersection? Well, the same type of price wars may break out on the Internet because of product comparison Web sites and attendant shopping "bots" that purport to give consumers the lowest price...

In what the company claims is the largest Web transaction ever recorded, aircraft manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (NYSE: GAC) has sold a jet to a Yahoo! executive for $40 million.

Last week, when Time magazine named Amazon.com chief executive and founder Jeffrey Bezos its "Person of the Year," I greeted the announcement with a measure of ambivalence.

As e-commerce works to establish itself as a mainstream phenomenon, many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have taken a wait-and-see attitude toward expanding their enterprises online.

William F. Buckley, Jr., the conservative moderator of the long-running Firing Line television series, engaged his colleagues in a lively two-hour debate over the Internet taxation issue Friday night before turning his set dark for the last time.

Digital media company Encoding.com, which helps technology companies, music companies and e-commerce sites optimize their digital audio and video content, announced today that it has raised $48 million in a round of funding led by Wasserstein Adelson Ventures.

Last week, two scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sued popular search engine Ask Jeeves, alleging that the company violated two U.S. patents that were issued to them in 1994 and 1995.