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Popular style guides such as Strunk and White's 1918 classic The Elements of Style and the original 1906 Chicago Manual of Style were published before the advent of computers or e-mail. As such, their rules are not always relevant to the exigencies of e-commerce and electronic business communication...

Travelzoo, which came to be on the strength of dot-com promotional blitz that included stock giveaways and more recently became a rising star among e-commerce stocks, today said the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating stock market activity by some employees for possible insider...

Microsoft today said it will not appeal a European Union court order to immediately implement antitrust sanctions. The defeat forces the company to remove its Media Player and video software from its Windows platform in the 25-nation block and to give interoperability information to rivals. Microsof...

Bidding to stoke sales in some of the biggest ticket items on its sprawling auction site, eBay has announced a deal to extend direct financing to buyers of automobiles on eBay Motors through Web-based firm E-Loan. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed, and for the time being, the pac...

Amazon.com is giving Web developers free access to data and technology to help them build applications for the online retailer's customers and sellers on its six global Web sites, the company said today. Andy Jassy, Amazon vice president of Web Services, said: "Some developers already have applicati...

Overstock.com was preparing for its biggest sales day ever. It was just days before the notorious Black Friday, traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the holiday season, and the discount online retailer was all set to break its previous year's sales record. And then it happened -- its in...

Multi-channel retailers were leaders in e-commerce growth in the latest holiday season, but a new study reveals significant opportunity gaps remain for these merchants. The first Evolution of the Multi-Channel Consumer (EMC2) study released yesterday was conducted by Inc., the e-tailing group, Fry a...

After years of sluggish deal-making, early stage venture capital investing appears to have made a comeback in the U.S., with about a third of dollars flowing into seed funding and series A rounds in 2004, according to a report released today by Ernst & Young LLP and VentureOne. The report says U...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell, who oversaw numerous controversial decisions, many of which were aimed at freeing e-commerce and telecommunication firms from regulation, is reportedly resigning his post. The FCC had no official comment, but widespread reports indicat...

Microsoft continues to lose browser market share to open-source competitors, according to market researcher WebSideStory. Firefox, Opera and Apple's Mac-only Safari are vying for second place in a space that Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates. IE's market share dropped 1.5 percent to 90.3...

You probably remember what happened to the tech bubble when it burst in 2000. It was quite a disaster. How could a sector that showed so much promise become so decimated? Exactly what went wrong? And, why does the future now look promising for this once devastated sector? In a previous article, I ta...

In a move to one-up rivals MSN and Yahoo in the online search wars, America Online today announced search innovations designed to let consumers find news, information, audio and video files, and products all in one place. Several new partnerships are also part of AOL's plan to expand its capabilitie...

Normally a Wall Street darling, eBay finds itself in the rare position of disappointing analysts and investors with its fourth quarter earnings report and its forecast for 2005 -- and this at the same time it faces a rare competitive threat. Investors responded by sending eBay shares lower by more t...

One day you are hot, the next you're not. Such is the music business. A day after the International Federation of Phonographic Industries released data demonstrating that the market for digital music is becoming mainstream, another international study reveals consumer dissatisfaction with the channe...

For a technology company, intellectual capital is one of the most important, if not the most important asset. Intellectual capital is more than intellectual property as it is commonly understood in that it also includes a company's trade secrets, know-how, problem-solving methods, customer informati...