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Digital Island (Nasdaq: ISLD) climbed US$1.32 to $3.32 in morning trading Thursday, after the company said it won a contract from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to deliver more than 860 million ads per day over the MSN network. San Francisco, California-based Digital Island, which provides Internet in...

Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) rose 22 U.S. cents to $19.35 in morning trading Thursday, following news of an expanded agreement with AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL). AOL was up 78 cents at $52.78. The companies said the deal allows AOL Time Warner to double the capacity and coverage of its AOL Transit Data ...

A familiar brand name is the most important factor being considered by corporate buyers on the Internet -- even more important than price -- according to a study released Thursday by e-business consulting firm Accenture. The study found that 80 percent of corporate buyers believe that brand and c...

The Internet sector in four chief Asia-Pacific economies is undergoing a "major reformation," according to a report released Wednesday by the Yankee Group. In its latest regional review of the e-business market in India, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, Yankee found that a host of Asian regul...

Priceline seemed to be back on course, steering delicately toward profitability for the first time. The recent news from the Norwalk, Connecticut-based e-tailer was, for a change, mostly good. The days of the class action suits and massive layoffs and failed expansion ideas were fading in the r...

Online brokerage E*Trade announced Tuesday it has launched E*Trade Israel, a Hebrew and English language Web site that will allow Israelis to trade online in the U.S. stock market. Menlo Park, California-based E*Trade said it believes that its entry into the Israeli online finance sector will "gr...

Apparently, it is an e-tailer's prerogative to change its mind -- or at least be flexible. Computer and electronics e-tailer Outpost.com said Tuesday that it will bring back free shipping on some items, a partial reversal of an earlier decision to abandon free delivery and the company's third shi...

WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) reversed an early morning gain to trade down 68 U.S. cents at $8.37 Wednesday, after reporting a narrower loss for the first quarter and announcing a partnership with AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL). The company, which provides health information and services over the Internet, ...

In a bid to further expand its e-commerce offerings, the Netscape Netbusiness Marketplace announced Tuesday that it has struck a deal with Travelocity.com to sell airline tickets, hotel bookings and car rental reservations. The Netbusiness Marketplace, which is a joint venture by AOL Time Warner an...

Exodus Communications (Nasdaq: EXDS) fell 75 U.S. cents to $9.37 in morning trading Wednesday, after the Web hosting company said it will cut about 15 percent of its 4,500 employees as part of a plan to reduce costs. The plan will result in a charge of "less than $10 million" to results for the ...

While there might be more hand-wringing over dot-com layoffs than is truly warranted, e-commerce watchers have as much right to be concerned about recent job-cut trends as anyone in other segments of the high-tech sector. According to John Challenger, chief executive officer of job placement firm C...

The potential for price fixing in business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces was one of the many thorny issues addressed Monday and Tuesday in Washington D.C. at a seminar sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Lawyers, economists, researchers and business leaders attending the two...

Deep into the second quarter of the year and after months spent struggling to survive, e-tailers are finally shifting their focus back to the basics, including, of course, consumer privacy. With the economy finally showing signs of stabilizing, Web merchants are confronting the issue of who sh...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) lost 80 U.S. cents to $16.12 in morning trading Tuesday, after Prudential Securities repeated a sell rating on the e-tailer's shares, saying they are a "high-risk" investment, and put a price target of $9 on the stock. Amazon's base of more than 32 million customers, consi...

Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) rose 82 U.S. cents to $20.07 in morning trading Tuesday, after Morgan Stanley Dean Witter raised its rating on the router maker's stock ahead of the company's quarterly financial report, due out after the day's close of trading. Morgan analyst Christopher Stix upgrad...