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Network Appliance (Nasdaq: NTAP) dipped US$1.33 to $21.20 in morning trading Wednesday, after the company reported that fiscal fourth-quarter profit plummeted 98 percent. Network Appliance said economic weakness has continued to spread to corporate investment in the computer data-storage storage...

Media conglomerate DirectGroup Bertelsmann announced Tuesday that it is integrating its online bookstore, BOL.com, into its multichannel book club division and closing some of BOL.com's international operations. According to published reports, Bertelsmann club division chief Klaus Eierhoff predi...

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will sign the "Safe Harbor" privacy protection agreement between the United States and the European Union. Multinational companies that do not sign the agreement -- which details the EU's minimum standards for data protection -- by June 30th will be prohib...

Consumers spent US$4.3 billion online in April -- a 22.1 percent spike from the $3.5 billion racked up in Internet sales in March -- according to data released Tuesday by Forrester Research and Greenfield Online. "With temperatures soaring in the Northeast in April, people came out of the winter ...

It was a disappointing Mother's Day for those who went online to send flowers, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen//NetRatings and Keynote Systems. The Internet performance firms reported that 25 percent of Mother's Day orders placed at three popular flower sites -- 1-800Flowers.com, F...

Three months after being called out of the game with the sale of its assets, sports e-tail site MVP.com began a comeback bid with its relaunch Tuesday by CBS SportsLine.com. SportsLine said it plans to tightly integrate the MVP.com store into its content-based sports site, with links to items fo...

Use of the XML mark-up language as a global standard for e-commerce transactions took an important step forward Monday when the UN Centre for Trade Facilitation (UN/CEFACT) and OASIS, a consortium of high tech giants, including IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, approved a standardized...

For those who have faithfully followed the e-commerce and high-tech headlines, one of last year's hot topics was the emergence of wireless services. As far back as a year ago, the question on everybody's mind was, "What's taking wireless so long?" Today, with technology constantly evolving and wi...

The two fastest growing online age groups during the past year were people over 55 and 18- to 24-year-olds, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. "These rapidly increasing age groups, which often have more leisure time than other demographic segments, are driving fund...

AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) picked up 17 U.S. cents to $51.77 in morning trading Tuesday, following news of a deal to provide America Online services over Sony PlayStation 2 entertainment consoles. AOL said it will work with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to develop "a new class of Internet-enabled entertainme...

Motient (Nasdaq: MTNT) gained 38 U.S. cents to $1.80 in morning trading Tuesday, following news that it plans to buy Internet consulting and services company Rare Medium (Nasdaq: RRRR). The companies said that the combined company will own and operate the largest wireless data network in the Un...

Few things are more annoying than opening your inbox and finding dozens of solicitations for credit cards, weight loss products and other goods and services. Unfortunately, no national law exists outlawing or regulating spam. Instead, spam is regulated by "a patchwork of state laws of varying ...

Handheld computer makers Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) and Handspring (Nasdaq: HAND) fell in morning trading Monday following reports that Lehman Brothers slashed its price targets for the stocks. At midmorning, Palm was down 61 U.S. cents at $7.12, while Handspring was down 69 cents at $10.26.

Although many sports Web sites in the United Kingdom are adding gambling services in an effort to boost income levels, the country's saturated online sports marketplace will face a squeeze in the coming years with a number of companies falling out of the game, according to a report released Monda...

FreeMarkets (Nasdaq: FMKT) picked up 22 U.S. cents to $11.36 in morning trading Monday following news that drugmaker Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP) has signed on to continue using the company's online marketplace to buy and sell goods and services. FreeMarkets said Schering-Plough executed a new tw...