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On the heels of China's decision to open its Internet doors with the launch of MeetChina.com last month, a California company is hoping to expand the e-commerce business for the rest of Asia with a series of Internet portals to be launched over the next 18 months. Unlike in China, where all commerce...

For Linux, 1998 was kind of like the year its voice broke. Intensifying media attention propelled Linus Torvalds, its creator, and a host of open-source gurus into the headlines -- alongside the likes of Bill Gates and other industry moguls. Torvalds managed to grab a cover spot on Forbes Magazine, ...

MIT's Sloan School of Management is calling it "a cross between the Oscars and the Internet," which would make their first annual MIT Sloan E-Commerce Awards a true revenge of the nerds.

Flattening, realigning and disintegrating describes what some say the Internet is doing to the recording industry.

Name-your-price online retailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) impressed Wall Street on Wednesday when it released its first earnings report since becoming a public company. The company lost $17.2 million -- or 12 cents a share -- in the first quarter of 1999, but analysts had expected a loss of 13 ce...

As online retailers continue to battle by selling items at or below cost, and by offering free shipping, Shopping.com has again raised the stakes by announcing today the Internet's first 125 percent satisfaction guarantee.

For its first foray into Internet cross-marketing, TV and Internet shopping channel Shop At Home, Inc. is teaming with one of the biggest online search engines. Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Shop At Home (Nasdaq: SATH) announced a one-year agreement to promote each other's Internet sites. It was al...

They don't claim to have struck the mother lode, but MiningCo.com executives (Nasdaq: MINE) were optimistic Wednesday, when they announced that first quarter revenues reached $2.4 million (US$). This represents a 15-fold increase over its 1998 first-quarter figures, and a 10% increase over 1998 four...

In case you've been dreaming of a Window-less Internet2 -- it's time to wake up.

Some 100 spams have hit my client inbox over the last two weeks, a much faster pace than previously. Chances are, your servers have been flooded as well.

When it comes to opening an Internet store, businesses have a big question right out of the gate - should I do it myself, or call in the experts?

In an announcement that is sure to spark the home fires at homebid.com's headquarters, the company announced Tuesday that it has received a $25 million (US$) infusion from three venture capital firms.

Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack could become the first major national electronics retail chain to put its wares online, when it launches an e-commerce business this fall. The largest consumer electronics retailer in the U.S. has formed a new division called radioshack.com, which will focus on selling TVs,...

IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is inviting e-commerce companies to take a field trip this summer to explore ways to improve their online businesses. The theme park for this new e- commerce adventure: a new 10,500 square-foot IBM Design Center under construction in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Knowing how to read a customer's mind, predicting his or her hot buttons and giving them what they want is good business for any e-commerce marketeer. But some say today's powerful customer-tracking tools invade the buyer's privacy, expose them to risk and reduce them to stereotypes.