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Within the next few weeks, the U.S. Department of Commerce, in partnership with IBM (NYSE: IBM), is scheduled to launch a new business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplace to help U.S. sellers hook up with foreign buyers. Dubbed BuyUSA.com, the new marketplace will particularly help small and mid-si...

Two of the world's largest media industries have not figured out what to do with each other. Movies and the Internet, arguably the two most popular entertainment and commerce vehicles, somehow can't seem to find a way to shake hands. Though it's difficult to say which medium needs the other more, ...

Bertelsmann AG announced another addition to its online music empire Wednesday, saying it has acquired Internet music collection service MyPlay.com. Bertelsmann said MyPlay's digital locker and music subscription technologies will be integrated into the company's new digital technology division,...

UK brick-and-click retailer Tesco this week launched an online service that will allow blind people to shop over the Internet without using special equipment. The system uses technology that converts text to speech, describing products on the company's Tesco Direct Web site and guiding consumer...

Job search Web site Monster.com said Wednesday that it is buying competitor FlipDog.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of privately held FlipDog will combine two of the Web's top career sites in terms of the number of job postings and the volume of Internet traffic. It also continues ...

Job search Web site Monster.com said Wednesday that it is buying competitor FlipDog.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of privately held FlipDog will combine two of the Web's top career sites in terms of the number of job postings and the volume of Internet traffic. It also continues ...

Job search Web site Monster.com said Wednesday that it is buying competitor FlipDog.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of privately held FlipDog will combine two of the Web's top career sites in terms of the number of job postings and the volume of Internet traffic. It also continues ...

After a lengthy investigation into the privacy policies of Web information provider Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has declined to take action against the company, Alexa said Tuesday. The FTC launched its investigation of Alexa in March 2000 to determin...

No one has ever accused Amazon.com of being an e-tail slacker. Something's always brewing in Seattle, Washington, with Amazon forever busy striking alliances and announcing new products. But the best business decision that Amazon has made in a while is the one to pull back the reins on Amazon Any...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that it has approved a settlement agreement with two adult Web sites that had been charged with running deceptive "free trial" offers and placing unauthorized charges on consumer credit cards. According to the settlement documents, the VMI si...

After setting a record in April, the number of dot-com job cuts fell by 24 percent in May, according to a report released Tuesday by Chicago, Illinois-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of CGC, told the E-Commerce Times ...

The U.S. government sold more than US$3.6 billion via e-commerce in 2000, topping the $2.8 billion in online sales seen by e-tail giant Amazon, according to a study released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Federal Computer Week. "It is a natural evolution for the gov...

Not content to rest on its laurels as one of the true e-commerce success stories, auction giant eBay plans to launch a storefronts program in coming months, chief executive officer Meg Whitman told investors Friday. Whitman also told shareholders at eBay's annual meeting in San Jose, California...

Fast-food giant McDonald's is expanding its use of an electronic system that lets customers pay for their orders using a cash-free keytag system originally developed for Mobil gas stations, a company spokesperson said Monday. Operators of more than 400 Chicago-area McDonald's restaurants recentl...

The opening night showing of "Startup.com" in Los Angeles was full of dot-com workers who were probably looking for a chance to laugh in the mirror. Instead, they got socked with raw footage of incompetent people mistreating one another while wasting a lot of investor money. "Startup.com" tell...