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Moving even further into the e-business arena, telecommunications giant AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) announced Tuesday that it has inked a $450 million (US$), multi-year Web hosting deal with IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM). IBM will contract for up to several hundred thousand square feet of Internet hosting faci...

Taking direct aim at chief rival Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) on Tuesday rolled out its newest computer chip aimed at lower-cost computer systems, the Duron 750 megahertz processor.

Electronic billing and payment provider CheckFree (Nasdaq: CKFR) announced Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Transpoint LLC in a stock deal valued at around $1 billion (US$).

A new report by Media Metrix (Nasdaq: MMXI) division AdRelevance shows that while traditional companies are beginning to realize the marketing potential of the Internet, online advertising is dominated by dot-coms.

In the 1980s, Irish citizens were leaving the country in droves. The economy was in miserable shape and the country's spirit was sagging. Isolationism and intransigence over bitterly divisive internal issues contributed to a national malaise.

I'll be brief. Time is precious, after all, which is why everything moves so fast in the digital age. Why we moved from snail mail to e-mail to instant messaging. Instant. The word itself conveys an adrenalized fervor. But maybe it's time to give an old aphorism new meaning: speed kills.

GoTo.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOTO) will provide search services for users of America Online (NYSE: AOL) as part of an expanded agreement announced Tuesday by the two firms.

Lawyers for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are drawing up a list of concessions it wants executives from America Online (NYSE: AOL) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW) to agree to before it will approve their proposed $147 billion (US$) merger, according to published reports Tuesday.

Scour, Inc. has laid off all but a fraction of its workforce, saying pending lawsuits have scared away investors lined up to fund the file-sharing network.

An optimistic report released Friday by the U.S. Internet Council (USIC) predicts that the Internet will continue to evolve into an open and global information environment and that those nations, corporations and citizens who can adapt to the Net's constant innovation will thrive.

Consumers spent over $5.5 billion (US$) shopping on the Internet during the second quarter of this year, an increase of 5.3 percent from first quarter online sales of $5.24 billion, according to separate figures released Thursday by Nielsen//NetRatings and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC).

Despite growing consumer fears about online privacy, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) will notify its 23 million customers that it has revised its policy to reflect the fact that customer information may be sold as an asset.

E-tail giant Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) announced late Thursday that it will be moving approximately 20 percent of its staff from Silicon Valley to Vancouver, Washington over the next several months.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 23 year-old California man on Thursday for issuing a phony Internet press release that sent high-tech firm Emulex's stock plummeting by more than 60 percent last Friday.

For a long time, we were told it was coming. Soon we would be gliding across the Internet at warp speed. We'd be downloading crisp video on demand, seamlessly streaming television and radio broadcasts. High-quality teleconferencing would make traveling to business meetings a thing of the past.