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The Internet can give and the Internet can take away. This e-commerce fact of life should now be crystal clear to top eBay, Inc. executives, in the aftermath of the online auctioneer's 22-hour outage last week.

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...

True, Rome wasn't built in a day -- and neither was Digital City -- but Internet network start-up Akamai Technologies is laying the foundation for a distant-future discovery in an awfully short period of time.

It'll be beginning to feel a lot like Christmas much earlier online this year, as shoppers click their way to gifts sooner than merchants expected, says a new report.

Recognized as one of the Internet's leading automotive sales and service companies, Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) announced Thursday that it is taking its high-flying e-commerce act to car-crazed Japan.

Linux.com, a web portal established and run by VA Linux Systems, reports that it received more than 25 million hits in its first month of operation. Three of those 25 million came during the site's very first day of going live.

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, approximately one third of the small business sector has not yet taken action to address a potential Y2K computer glitch.

The plot thickens as the government antitrust case against Microsoft is revealing through company memos the inner thoughts of its founder Bill Gates.

On Wednesday, the day the Nasdaq gained a record 103.16 points as concerns about inflation abated, software company Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) was the darling of Wall Street. Shares of Oracle, which develops software that powers companies including Amazon.com and Excite, climbed more than 31 percen...

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, approximately one third of the small business sector has not yet taken action to address a potential Y2K computer glitch.

Online marketing suddenly looks like a red-hot industry. One day after online advertising company DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) announced a $1 billion deal to purchase market research firm Abacus Direct, America Online (NYSE: AOL) grabbed a bigger piece of the online marketing pie.

GE Capital, Global Commerce Systems, Inc., Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), and Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS) have set their aim high in announcing Wednesday the formation of a global e-commerce alliance.

What's in a name? For Amazon, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BID) name brought a 7 percent rise in its stock price less than one hour after Wednesday's opening bell in New York. For Sotheby's, Amazon delivered a 10 percent boost. Such is the business of the Internet sales w...

Like many invading armies before it, Tripod -- a Williamstown, Massachusetts-based Web community owned by Lycos -- has set its sights on Europe, and apparently will not be content until its presence stretches from the Mediterranean to the English Channel.

The bad news is Canada is lagging behind the United States in electronic commerce. The good news is Canadians are dying to buy Canadian, if only their local businesses would get online.