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Until recently, men were considered to be the broad target audience for the Internet, but new data from Forrester Research shows that 29 percent of all American women now use the Internet regularly.

In a decision with global implications, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia recently removed a major obstacle to the development of secure electronic commerce.

The Connecticut Attorney General is investigating the sales and billing practices of the nation's eighth-largest credit card issuer Providian Financial Corp., compounding the company's rapidly-mounting legal woes.

In an intensifying battle against specialized search services, eBay, Inc. moved last Friday to deny AuctionWatch.com access to its site.

One week after music software provider Real Networks revealed that it secretly gathered and transmitted consumer information, a coalition of top Internet companies announced launch today of a major privacy awareness campaign.

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.

Technical services provider Linuxcare, Inc. has certified key Linux distributions to run on the Cubix multi-server Density series.

Music giant Universal Music Group said today that it is forming a new record label that will "uniquely harness the strength and reach of the Internet," with America Online (NYSE: AOL) and others serving as key strategic partners.

Just days after Intel chief executive officer Craig Barret reiterated his company's determination to invest in China, the country has drafted rules that would formally ban foreign investment in the Internet.

Concentric Network Corp. announced today that it will begin offering Office 2000 software via the Internet in early 2000.

Prodigy Communications Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy out rival FlashNet Communications for stock valued at about $120 million (US$).

E-tail success usually comes when a company outdoes its adversaries with a hard-hitting mix of product, price and ease-of-use.

Agillion, Inc., a business services company that helps small and mid-sized businesses build and manage personalized customer relationships online, announced today that it has closed a $40 million (US$) first round of funding led by such notable investors as Cisco Systems, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanl...

The debate over online privacy policies is taking shape in Washington today as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce host a day-long workshop on "online profiling," the practice of collecting consumer information based on their online activities and using that data to crea...

The e-commerce boom has turned countless caffeine-addled GenXers into near billionaires. One day, they're running up cash advances on 17 different credit cards while setting up shop in mom and dad's basement, the next day, they're meeting with Benchmark and Sequoia, securing the capital to race down...