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According to BizRate.com's second quarter Consumer Online Report, computers and related accessories continue to lead the charge of consumer buying on the Internet.

According to a new study by Mercer Management Consulting, e-tailers will crash and burn this holiday season if they fail to improve their service.

Internet service provider EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) has bolstered its new Home Office service by making E-Stamp its online postage supplier. E-Stamp and messaging services from MessageClick are now featured on the EarthLink Personal Start Page.

Citing the extreme volatility and fast pace of today's stock market, Stocksystem.com, Inc. is now offering online investors a software program that will help them avoid critical mistakes. The program, called the Position Cost Averaging 2000 stock investing system, utilizes built-in mechanisms that p...

Gay.com announced today that it has partnered with GAYBC Radio Network to co-develop and distribute both live and on-demand radio programs for its users.

Trend Micro, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC), a provider of virus protection and security services, has debuted a new online virus scanning service that is intended to enhance Internet Service Provider (ISP) offerings and increase its strength in the antivirus solution market.

OnHealth Network Company (Nasdaq: (ONHN), a Seattle, Washington-based healthcare site, announced Monday that it paid nearly $5 million (US$) in stock to acquire BabyData.com, a site aimed at pregnant couples and those trying to conceive.

Flooz.com announced Monday that it is the recipient of $16.5 million (US$) in first-round capital financing from a group of well-known Internet venture capital firms. Flooz has been described as the first service to provide online gift-giving currency.

Three Internet veterans with experience at Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer Inc., Pointcast and American Digital Network are hoping to revolutionize personal Internet use with the launch of iDirections.com, a combination of free services, electronic commerce, content and community features.

Seeing Prodigy Communications Corp. back in the news again brought back fond memories.

Seeking to bolster its position in the online video sales market, e-commerce giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is featuring footage not used in either the box office or home video version of The Blair Witch Project, a low budget production that has improbably become the most profitable film ever produ...

A couple of weeks ago, online bookseller Fatbrain.com introduced a new model for selling books, magazine articles and other documents that it says will radically change the publishing world.

iWeb, a developer of technology that allows Internet service providers to subsidize free Internet access with e-commerce services and advertising, announced Thursday that it has secured a $3 million second round of financing. The round was led by marketing and communications firm Young & Rubicam...

E-commerce solution provider Unify Corp. (Nasdaq: UNFY), announced this week that two of its forthcoming Internet software releases will be certified to run on the Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) distribution of the Linux operating system (OS).

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Friday that it is teaming with StarMedia Network (Nasdaq: STRM), the largest Spanish-language and Portuguese-language online service in the world, to help merchants put their wares online.