Archive

Executives at HomeStore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) are probably shaking their head in agreement with Charles Dickens' famous "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," opening to "A Tale of Two Cities." Friday, the day after the company saw its share price soar as much as 36 percent in its initi...

The era of after-hours stock trading is nearly upon us, and online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC) is aiming to capitalize on this growing market. On Thursday, Wit Capital announced a deal that will make it a founding partner and the first company to provide information for America Online...

A bill to make electronic signatures an official way to bind an online transaction may now make its way to President Clinton's desk before Congress adjourns for the year. The House Commerce Committee paved the way Thursday by passing H.R. 1714, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commer...

In response to a recent firestorm of criticism regarding the security of its products, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) left a Web server with a beta version of Windows 2000 and the embattled Internet Information server (IIS) outside its firewall this week.

Unknown to many of us here on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Scandinavians have been out in the forefront of many Internet-related matters. Today's Norwegian, Swede, Finn or Danish software engineer is the modern-day version of Eric the Red and his Viking cohorts, leading the rest of Euro...

So far this week, four highly touted Internet initial public offerings have come out of the box flat. Some think their less than spectacular performance could be a signal that finally the supply of new IPOs has caught up with -- or exceeded -- Wall Street's demand.

Starbucks' new Internet strategy does little more than sugarcoat its weak earnings, so says a report released last week by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research, Inc. Furthermore, the report is highly critical of the Seattle, Washington specialty coffee retailer's "nebulous plan" to laun...

Cyberian Outpost, Inc., an online e-marketeer of computer products, and chain store Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, Inc. announced Monday that they have joined forces to sell consumer electronics via the Internet.

Since some people still insist on going to stores and other public places to take care of their shopping needs, rather than looking online, one of the nation's largest portal companies is taking its services where the people are. America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL) unveiled a strategic partnership Tuesd...

Does time spent shopping on the Internet count as billable hours? Attorneys across the country now have a new dilemma to wrestle with as Attorneys Online Inc. debuts its new shopping site, America's Legal Super Store. Attorneys Online, a subsidiary of The Publishing Company of North America Inc. (Na...

The UK's Gameplay.com, an online computer game portal, hopes to raise 31 million pounds ($51 million US$) today, by selling 23 million shares in an initial public offering on London's Alternative Investment Market.

In an attempt to raise millions of dollars to fund their mounting expenses in an e-commerce "War of the Roses," FTD.com and 1-800-Flowers.com -- two rival online florists -- are slated to make their debuts on Wall Street this week.

Leading Internet investment bank BancBoston Robertson Stephens is banking on drawing a crowd as it unveils its 1999 Investing in Innovations Conference today in San Francisco.

In an announcement equivalent to kicking sand at the beach or raining on the parade, Internet marketing research company Greenfield Online said that online shopping decreased three percent this past quarter, the first e-commerce decrease the company's surveys have revealed in the past year.

As traditional retailers worry over the question of whether to put their wares online or try to duke it out with online stores the old-fashioned way, ShoppingList.com is urging them to use the Internet at least as a marketing tool. ShoppingList.com launched Monday as a resource for people getting re...