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On the eve of a much-anticipated meeting of federal and state government and private sector representatives to discuss the future of Internet taxation, a widely respected consulting firm said the Internet presents no major threat to sales tax revenues.

In a direct blow to Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) auction strategy, leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) unveiled a new program today that is designed to help sellers with large inventories of items manage their auctions more efficiently.

When the latest virus-like worm slithered its way online recently, e-commerce sites such as Beyond.com didn't mistake it for Dennis Rodman. They did, however, see opportunity written all over it.

Through a series of alliances announced Monday, Phoenix Technologies Ltd. hopes to take the first click away from surfing, and shopping, the Web.

As part of a new partnership, a new health section scheduled to launch next month on theglobe.com will feature content from drkoop.com, the Internet health network led by former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop.

While online advertising continues its phenomenal growth, the top 50 Web publishers will reap the overwhelming majority of ad dollars, accounting for 95 percent of revenues for ad-supported sites in the U.S. this year, says a new report.

E-commerce could be turned on its head when broadband Internet connections become common place and consumers are hooked to the Internet all day long.

A recent report issued by Rockbridge Associates, Inc. -- intended to measure consumer acceptance and confidence in various technologies -- has revealed a reluctance among many consumers to embrace e-commerce, based partially on concerns over security issues.

Desks, file cabinets and books that have been gathering dust in Baltimore City Government warehouses for years are now seeing the light of day -- or at least the light of the Internet -- through an alliance with Classified Auctions.com.

Last week, just seven months after AOL bought his company, it was announced that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen will step down from his post as America Online's chief technology officer.

Starbucks' e-commerce plans have been the source of much speculation ever since news of the company's possible e-commerce and portal plans began to circulate last month. Things became a little more clear on Thursday, when the specialty coffee retailer announced a strategic alliance with Oxygen Media...

Shareholders of Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET), a network of technology and community-driven Web Sites, voted Thursday to accept Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's purchase of preferred shares for $133 million (US$), complimenting Allen's purchase in March of $167 million in stock.

"We have been debating how to start out this advisory. How do you explain that 90% or so of the Windows NT web servers on the Internet are open to a hole that lets an attacker execute arbitrary code on the remote Web server?"

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), the nation's second largest cable TV operator and largest multimedia entertainment company is took a step toward a concerted electronic commerce business this week, appointing top bean counter Richard Bressler chairman of the new Time Warner Digital Media company. Bress...

American Greetings (NYSE: AM) plans to sell a minority interest in its electronic marketing division, americangreetings.com, in an initial public stock offering this fall. The company offered no clues as to how many shares it will offer or how much of the company will go public, though it said it wi...