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Auction fraud has the dubious honor of being the No. 1 online scam, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday.

Hoping to crack the lucrative Asian e-commerce market, Amazon.com launched a Japanese-language site Wednesday focused on its core business of selling books.

Mortgage.com (Nasdaq: MDCM), a provider of e-commerce services to online mortgage lenders, announced Tuesday that it has laid off 518 of its 618 employees and is beginning "the orderly wind-down" of its operations.

Why they held it back so long is a mystery, but finally, Barnesandnoble.com and Barnes & Noble, Inc. have brought out the secret artillery they've had since this whole Internet thing began.

The typical Internet user might not be as young as one might think, according to a report released Monday by Gartner Group.

Even though more Americans than ever before will be buying online this holiday season, a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that many U.S. e-tailers will experience million dollar losses.

eToys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETYS) blew past analysts' estimates for the second quarter ended September 30th, and said it expects losses to begin narrowing in future quarters as it aims to break even in fiscal 2002.

The marketing ploy for those new wireless location tracking devices we've heard so much about might go something like this: "Say, Mr. Consumer, let's say you're walking down the street in a strange part of the city and you happen to pass by Ray's Pizzeria, one of many such fine eating establishment...

Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) met analysts' expectations for earnings on Monday and said recent investments have positioned the online bookseller for a record-breaking holiday season.

Online superstore Buy.com and eBay-owned Half.com announced Monday the creation of a joint marketplace that will sell used CDs, videos and DVDs from both companies.

While a report released Monday by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) predicts that revenue from business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces will approach $9 billion (US$) in 2005, the research firm suggests that the greatest benefits of B2B exchanges lie in increased productivity, not in the revenues t...

Internet superstore Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Fox Television are partnering to create a two-hour television special, "The Ultimate Auction," for broadcast in December. The auction will be managed by Amazon's live auction site LiveBid.

AltaVista won its bid to have an international cybersquatter evicted from 43 domain names Monday after a United Nations panel ruled in favor of the embattled Web portal.

Primedia, Inc. (NYSE: PRM), the New York City-based publisher of such magazines as "Seventeen" and "Modern Bride," has announced it will buy Internet portal About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT) for approximately $690 million (US$) in stock.

Religion may rival sex and politics as a taboo subject for dinner table conversations, but mentioning money and religion in the same breath can cause even more squirming. Nevertheless, the relationship between church and cash is an inescapable issue for both the tiny house of worship that survives o...