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In an effort to expand its e-commerce presence away from home, U.S.-based retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has partnered with AOL Europe and UK-based comparison shopping site ShopSmart.com.

E-tailers, even the most popular ones, are universally failing to provide high-quality online customer service, according to a new survey from GartnerGroup, Inc.

Hundreds of would-be satellite TV thieves who logged onto the Web to buy counterfeit satellite access cards instead bought themselves a whole lot of trouble, because the site was operated by the U.S. Customs Service as part of a sting operation.

Welcome back to reality, dot-coms. Word has it that you have stopped spending like it was going out of style. You are clinging to the remnants of your venture capital and the windfall you reaped from your IPO. Good thing. Just one question: Don't you think it's a bit late?

Despite the ongoing dot-com shakeout, the field of e-commerce education in the United States continues to develop. Over the past several years, graduate business schools have attempted a variety of strategies on how to inculcate e-commerce concepts into traditional business school courses.

The Balkans, April 1999. More than 500,000 Kosovars have fled for other countries in response to ethnic strife.

Citing privacy concerns, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) and online auction giant eBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) have halted auctions offering a mailing list of 200,000 U.S. investors to the highest bidder, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

The Internet will be a driving force in both the new and used vehicle market over the next five years, according to a study released Monday by New York-based research firm Jupiter Communications.

U.S. government authorities said Monday they have charged four people and a pharmaceutical supply company with conspiring to sell drugs over the Internet to people without valid prescriptions.

Americans are driving online advertising to new heights as a result of their increasing "per-person daily media use," primarily on the Internet, according to investment banking firm Veronis Suhler.

A lawsuit filed by Ford Motor Company against e-commerce startup Model E was dismissed Monday, handing the custom-car ordering site a significant victory. The new company plans to use the recent media exposure to unveil more details about its "subscribe and drive" service.

The Republican Convention 2000 in Philadelphia was supposed to be the first political convention held wholly in the Internet Age, the first to be subject to the scrutiny of 24-hour Web cams and digital wrist cameras, the first to become instant fodder for chat room debates. It was supposed to be thr...

Software giant Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) launched its Microsoft Reader software for PCs Tuesday, significantly expanding the audience for electronic publications.

A French arbitrator has split up Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, the dueling children of parent company Andersen Worldwide.

E-commerce bellwether Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is restructuring some deals with certain partners in its Amazon Commerce Network (ACN), according to a quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).