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General Motors, Suzuki Motors, Fuji Heavy Industries and Isuzu Motors announced they have formed a joint venture company, Japan Auto Web Services. The first item on the new company's agenda, executives said, is the immediate establishment of BuyPower Japan, an online automotive shopping service. ...

In the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks, much of America has come to a stop. From darkened baseball stadiums where pennant races were being played to the world of e-commerce, much of what made up normal daily activity has been put on hold. And experts say it might be a while before things begi...

Online retailers, like their brick-and-mortar counterparts, are collecting donations and helping the Red Cross with its effort to recover and aid victims following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of a hijacked plane in rural Pennsylvania. Ama...

Setting up an e-tail outlet is a natural progression for small offline retailers, according to experts, but in order to succeed, retailers need to plan, plan, plan. For starters, Gartner research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times, retailers need to carefully evaluate whether they ar...

The gaping hole in the New York City skyline is proof that America is forever changed. And that scar is a symbol of what all Americans are feeling. It will be impossible to get back to where we were before September 11, 2001. To try would be foolish. Suddenly, important things that seemed to matt...

Just as every American will forever remember where he or she was on September 11, 2001, the day may also be remembered as the greatest test for technology and the Internet. Did the Internet and telecommunication play a major role in the horrific events that unfolded on Tuesday? Indeed they did, and...

Internet auction leader eBay said late Tuesday it had temporarily halted trading in all items related to the World Trade Center or the Pentagon, the scenes of devastating terrorist attacks earlier in the day. The ban on items relating to the attacked locations is an extra measure that San Jose, ...

Yahoo! will host the Web site for the next two World Cup soccer tournaments under an agreement announced Tuesday with the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Yahoo! said it has exclusive rights to produce, market and host the FIFAworldcup.com site, and will sell, along with...

Let's face it. Pop-up ads are annoying. Spam is illegal. Offline advertising is so, well, non-interactive. In response, major U.S. advertisers are, one by one, discovering a new approach to Internet marketing. If your spellchecker is not already saturated with buzz words coined in the Internet er...

Detailed information and recommendations about products are the most important reasons that customers return to e-tail sites, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. In its report, "Back to Basics: Enhancing User Experience at Low Cost," Jupiter said that 59 percent of tho...

Is the strip-mall travel agent going to go the way of the dinosaur? With the surge of travelers turning to Internet sites to purchase their airline tickets, many are asking about the long-term viability of traditional travel agents, and even predicting their eventual demise. "The agent who can ge...

UK businesses racked up roughly US$82.7 billion in online sales last year, according to data released Monday by the British government's Office of National Statistics (ONS), accounting for 2 percent of total sales in the sectors the agency examined. Although the ratio of transactions conducted ov...

Want to see the future of online advertising? Among other things, it looks just like something you would find on your TV set. "We're already seeing (online) ads look more like TV commercials, and that's only going to continue," Denise Garcia, research director for media at GartnerG2, told the E-...

A few years ago a popular song asked, "How do you keep the music playing?" Owners of music file-sharing services and recording companies are now asking the same question, with a twist. "How do we keep the music playing on the Internet?" is more like it these days. What seemed a highly progress...

A system that allows U.S. businesses and individuals to make estimated tax payments over the Internet is now live, following a pilot program that began last October, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday. The system "provides a convenient and secure method for paying taxes that is consistent...