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eMachines (Nasdaq: EEEE) jumped 25 U.S. cents to 49 cents in morning trading Tuesday -- an increase of 104.2 percent -- after the company, which makes low-cost personal computers, said it hired an adviser to help it consider "strategic alternatives," including a possible sale. "As a result of our ...

Online grocer Peapod said Tuesday it will hand over its pack-and-ship service to Netgrocer.com, in order to focus on local markets. Chicago, Illinois-based Peapod said Netgrocer's services will replace "Peapod Packages," which enabled customers to purchase certain non-perishable items that were t...

Priceline.com announced late Monday that it is replacing president and chief executive officer Daniel Schulman. The e-tailer said chairman Richard Braddock will retake the reins as CEO, a position he held from July 1998 to May 2000. Chief operating officer Jeffery H. Boyd will assume the role ...

Looking to tap the digital music subscription market, personalized software maker MusicMatch announced Monday that it is starting a fee-driven online radio service that will serve as a springboard for the launch of song-selling initiatives in the coming months. The San Diego, California-based compa...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) slipped 66 U.S. cents to $16.90 in morning trading Monday, after a published report said the e-tail giant has scaled back its mobile commerce efforts in the face of a weak U.S. market for wireless shopping. The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the effort,"...

Microsoft announced Monday that it was partnering with Unisys Corporation and Baltimore Technologies to design, develop, and market a Windows 2000-based software package that incorporates Identrus, an electronic identity verification system. The new product will allow loan officers at financial in...

Proxicom climbed US$1.64 to $7.30 in morning trading Monday, after the Internet consulting company said it received a buyout offer from Dimension Data of the United Kingdom, topping an earlier bid from Compaq (NYSE: CPQ). Proxicom said Dimension Data offered to buy the company for $7.50 per share i...

Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) picked up 70 U.S. cents to $20.34 in morning trading Monday, following news of an agreement with China Telecom. Cisco said it will provide more than 500 high-speed Internet routers to the Chinese telecommunications company to help it build an "information highway stre...

Leading Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) on Monday rolled out a new version of its instant messaging (IM) service, one that will enable users to place international phone calls through their personal computers. The feature comes amid an upgrade of Yahoo's IM service and is the latest in a s...

What's in a name? Plenty, when it's an online name. At least that's been the conventional wisdom. But with many of the best-known e-commerce brand names -- from Pets.com to eToys and Furniture.com -- now resting in peace, and without the piles of money needed to fuel the type of name-building ...

The controversy continues for travel mega-site Orbitz. Southwest Airlines sued the airline-backed travel giant Thursday for providing "false and misleading" information to its customers regarding Southwest flight schedules, rates and fares. Southwest also alleged that Orbitz is using Southwest's p...

What if there's a second Internet bubble and no one wants to get inside? It could happen. In fact, the number of people who wince, shudder or burst into tears when someone mentions the idea of going to work for a pure-play Web company is growing dramatically. Not so long ago, lots of people though...

Word of mouth is one of the strongest marketing mediums available -- so strong that some struggling dot-coms, desperate to save advertising dollars, are begging their customers to help spread the word about their products and services. "Word of mouth is very powerful in terms of buying power," F...

Consumers like to be in the driver's seat, and just because we have introduced a new genre of shopping does not mean we can take that away. The message to e-tailers is that in the battle over who should dictate customization -- the shopper or the seller -- everyone wins if shoppers are given the...

Looking to extend its reach to a new audience of potential customers, eBay announced Friday that it has launched a new service to allow newspaper readers to search their local print edition for items posted on the Internet auction heavyweight's site. As part of the program, sellers who have placed...