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It's official: E-tailers had a stellar holiday weekend, with brisk sales and vigorous activity fueled by savvy shoppers who have been doing their homework. The consumer is now well-equipped to sidestep inefficient or rigid e-tailers and carve out the best online deals with a maximum of convenience. ...

By all accounts, e-tailers are poised to experience the first of many monster holiday seasons and sell more goods and services online than anyone would have ever thought possible

UK-based entertainment and shopping guide Virgin Net announced today that it has selected upstart search engine Google to provide search services for its Web site.

According to a new study by Benchmarking Partners, a majority of leaders of consumer and industrial market companies believe that e-commerce is critical to their ongoing success but do not have funded strategies or a decision maker in place.

E-commerce infrastructure companies are the stars of Wall Street right now, with stocks that most people have never heard of rising to hard-to-believe heights.

According to a new study by research firm Jupiter Communications, Inc., more consumers than ever plan to shop online this holiday season, but poor customer service could turn those eager spenders off.

Originally a division of Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada, Entrust Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) spun off as a separate international provider of electronic security solutions in December of 1996.

Riding a wave of optimism after China's recent agreement with U.S. officials to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO), China.com (Nasdaq: CHINA) announced today that it has entered into a joint venture and acquired majority stakes in three companies.

Online brokers are the focal point of a 95-page report that was just issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

America Online announced today that Buenos Aires-based financial services Web site LatinStocks.com has signed an agreement to provide the giant online service provider with content and online stock trading.

In an effort to outduel Bill Gates-owned competitor Corbis, online image provider Getty Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: GETY) announced today that it has completed a $183 million (US$) acquisition of Eastman Kodak subsidiary The Image Bank.

Internet content service provider Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), fresh off of one of the most successful initial public offerings in U.S. stock market history, announced yesterday that it has signed more than 100 customers since the introduction of its high-speed service in April.

New online mall SingleShop.com will debut the day after Thanksgiving with a feature that allows shoppers to use the same shopping cart to store products from multiple merchants and pay for everything at once.

In an effort to bolster consumer confidence in e-commerce for the holiday season, TransNet Security, Inc. has launched a program to guarantee the security practices of Web sites across the Internet.

While the results of International Data Corporation's (IDC) Project Atlas, a worldwide survey of Internet usage, confirm that the Internet and e-commerce are now truly a global phenomenon, conventional views about different countries' usage are often surprisingly off the mark.