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Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), along with specialty financing company Medallion Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: TAXI), sent New York's first Internet-enabled taxicabs into the streets of the city Thursday.

Internet advertising companies and Web sites should disclose their placement of "Web bugs" to ease users' concerns that their online moves may be unknowingly tracked, according to a new proposal presented on Wednesday by the Privacy Foundation.

F**kedCompany.com, a three month-old satiric Web site that tracks the demise of dot-coms, has set the online auction world on its ear this week by attracting bids in excess of $3 million (US$) on eBay.

The eBay auction of F**kedCompany.com, a three month-old satiric Web site that tracks the demise of dot-coms, has been canceled after sparking a media frenzy and attracting bids in excess of $3 million (US$).

Nearly two-thirds of Canadian retailers believe they are lagging behind their U.S. counterparts when it comes to e-commerce, according to IDC Canada's "National Online Retail Industry Study."

A study released Wednesday by online research firm Jupiter Communications says that kids and teens will only spend $4.9 billion (US$) online in 2005, but the research they do online will drive an estimated $21.4 billion in offline spending.

America Online (Nasdaq: AOL) said Wednesday it will launch a free portal aimed at helping millions of small businesses get online and use the Web for advertising, selling and gathering information.

Manufacturers and shippers need to shore up weak supply links or risk crumbling under the surging demand of a global e-commerce market that is set to skyrocket to $6.8 trillion (US$) by 2004, warn two new reports from Forrester Research.

In a bid to provide tighter security for e-commerce and other transactions, Visa U.S.A. rolled out its new digital-based "smart card" on Tuesday. The smart card will store customer identification and account information within a microprocessor chip, and only smart card readers will be able to access...

Presenting the biggest change in the Mac operating system in 16 years, Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) released the public test version of its new Macintosh computer operating system Wednesday.

Prediction: It won't be long before marketing consultants start telling startups eager to get into the public eye, "Do something really reckless, really stupid. Stupid enough to get yourselves sued."

Determined hackers could easily break into government computers and access information ranging from Social Security numbers to defense secrets, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO).

Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, announced Monday that he has agreed in principle to invest an additional $50 million (US$) in Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN). The prince's total investment in the online merchant will reach $100 million once the deal closes.

According to a report released Monday by Media Metrix, controversial music file-sharing application Napster climbed from 1.1 million unique users at home in February to 4.9 million unique users in July, a 345 percent increase that makes it one of the fastest growing applications on the Web.

Just days after being slammed with a multi-million dollar (US$) adverse ruling in the copyright case brought by Universal Music Group, Internet music download site MP3.com faces another legal challenge. Zomba Recording Corporation and Zomba Music Publishing, the label and music publisher behind Brit...