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Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL), the nation's largest personal property insurance company, announced yesterday that it plans to cut back its call centers and non-sales staffs and replace some of those functions with direct-response call centers and the Internet.

Linux software vendor Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) has expanded its Internet-centric strategic partnership with Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's second largest software company and provider of Linux-based database solutions.

Electronic commerce is shaking up a lot more than consumer buying trends lately, as high salaries and unlimited growth potential are allowing e-businesses to lure the best of the best from the brick-and-mortar business world. Almost daily, accomplished executives in various fields are joining the el...

European online auctioneer QXL.com PLC announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with AOL Germany to become the premium partner of the online service provider.

Former Microsoft executive Karl Jacob has launched a Web site that allows people to hold private conversations via the telephone without having to share their telephone numbers.

Shares of United Parcel Service, Inc. skyrocketed as much as 40 percent in the company's first day of trading today, raising $5.47 billion (US$) in the largest initial stock sale in history.

Leading online retailer Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) has taken a giant step away from its original incarnation as an online bookseller by announcing the launch of home improvement, software, video game and gift idea stores.

British Telecommunications PLC, the United Kingdom's dominant telephone and Internet carrier, announced a deal today with San Francisco, California-based LookSmart,Inc., to launch Internet portal services in Europe and Asia.

Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and a handful of Internet heavyweights have formed the Internet Policy Institute to examine Internet issues and the Web's impact on society.

In the wake of the landmark ruling that branded Microsoft a monopoly, information and developer resource Web sites are moving into the market space for Linux-based solutions.

Just as ancient ships were misguided to a rocky death, the seductive siren song of Internet research can muddy the waters of e-commerce.

Unfazed by impending restrictions to foreign investment, Boston, Massachusetts-based International Data Group (IDG) announced today that it will pour much of a $100 million (US$) risk fund into Internet sites in China.

According to Washington-based research firm The Strategis Group, more than 100 million Americans are using the Internet, and getting smarter and faster as they surf.

Amazon.com continued a frenetic week of activity today by announcing that it will create a co-branded credit card with Internet credit card issuer NextCard that could generate up to $150 million (US$) in fees for the online retail giant.

In a new poll by @plan (NASDAQ: APLN), nearly two-thirds of people using the Internet say that online privacy should be market-regulated, rather than legislated.