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Art Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARTG) rose 11/16 to 48 11/16 Thursday after the company shelved a plan to sell 4 million common shares in a secondary offering. Shareholders had been planning to sell another 725,000 shares in the offering, which the e-commerce software company said it canceled b...

Audiohighway.com (Nasdaq: AHWY) dropped 3/32 to 3/8 Thursday after the company said it laid of 21 of its 30 employees. The online entertainment and information company said the move is aimed at cutting expenses as it continues to seek partners and funding sources. ...

While a relatively small portion of Chile's population livesbelow the poverty line, "the costs of buying a computer or renting atelephone line remain unreachable for a large segment of the population,"according to research firm eMarketer. Though Chile has a "largely unrestricted" economy, a relative...

The headlines are daunting. Every day seems to bring at least one dot-com failure to the fore. But for all the wisdom of trying to see the big picture, we need to zoom in and consider what this shakeout means for customers.

The amount of money that American consumers are losing to fraudulent Internet schemes is growing, according to a report released Thursday by the National Consumers League. The average loss per person rose from US$310 in 1999 to $412 during the first nine months of 2000, the study found.

One-third of the 131 dot-coms that have folded this year have done so in the past seven weeks, according to a study issued Thursday by Webmergers, a San Francisco, California-based mergers and acquisitions tracking company. The firm, which drew its research from more than 50 information sources, a...

The escalating industry-wide penetration of business-to-business (B2B) exchanges will eventually give rise to a batch of legal uncertainties that businesses and regulators will be forced to address, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research.

BMG Entertainment, a division of Bertelsmann AG, announced Thursday it has partnered with content delivery service provider Akamai Technologies, Inc. and Virage, Inc. to offer music videos for online syndication through streaming media.

Cosmetics and beauty supply e-tailer Beautyjungle.com announced Wednesday that it is shutting down operations after failing to secure adequate financing.

Garden.com (Nasdaq: GDEN) became the latest addition to the ongoing dot-com casualty list Wednesday when the company announced a phased shutdown of its e-tail operations.

Concerns over e-commerce, free trade, and the still-undecided U.S. presidential election highlighted the first day of the annual two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which began Wednesday in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. Although the economies of the 21 APEC nations -- ranging fro...

Despite a slow start to this year's online holiday season, a pair of new reports suggeststhat online sales could top last year's level by 100 percent. E-tailers "have reason to be hopeful," according to consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, which predicts fourth-quarter e-commerce will reach US$10...

Representing yet another setback for the Internet's largest e-tailer, Forrester Research announced Wednesday that Express.com, formerly DVDExpress, has edged out Amazon.com for the title of top online movie seller.

A new report released Tuesday by PC Data Online shows that traditional and catalog retailers are beginning to flex considerable muscle in today's super-competitive e-tail space.

Further fortifying its holiday e-tail offerings, America Online (NYSE: AOL) unveiled a luxury shopping section of Shop@AOL Wednesday.