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While the rest of the world works on expanding the number of top level domains (TLDs) available, adding dot-travel and dot-sex to dot-com and dot-org, a couple of big-name companies are demanding absolute control of the Web in their own way.

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).

Further fueling the ongoing business-to-business (B2B) frenzy, Citigroup (NYSE: C) and several financial and technology companies announced a joint e-commerce venture Monday that they say will consolidate online payments and simplify e-commerce banking.

The family of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix has prevailed in a legal proceeding brought against the holder of the Internet address Jimihendrix.com, UN arbitrators announced Monday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will head up this year's World E-Commerce Forum, at which global Internet security will be an issue for the first time, it was announced Friday.

Mafiaboy, the 16 year-old Montreal teenager who Canadian police say unleashed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on major Web sites earlier this year, was back in court Thursday to face 64 new charges related to his alleged cyber mischief.

As part of its ongoing effort to expand the scope of the property transactions it hosts on the Internet, eBay, Inc. announced Thursday that it has joined efforts with Berkeley, California-based zipRealty.com to sell real estate online.

Remember the Y2K bug? You know, the one that cost billions of dollars (US$) to fix? Wasn't it strange that the countries that did not prepare for technological disaster had exactly the same experience as the countries that did? Right -- nothing happened.

Ailing online pharmacy PlanetRx.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX) took another hit Thursday when William J. Razzouk resigned to become a venture partner at Paradigm Capital Partners LLC of Memphis, Tennessee.

High-speed Internet access for Americans jumped dramatically last year, according a government report released Thursday.

While online auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) continues to outpace competitors in the United States, QXL.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: QXLC) has edged ahead in the latest round of the European online auction version of "King of the Hill."

Toysrus.com violated its own privacy policy by providing marketers access to its customer data, according to a charge leveled against the online toy seller in a class action suit filed July 28th in a San Francisco federal court.

Although a sharp rise in ownership of personal computers (PCs) worldwide is translating into widespread Internet usage, the digital divide is not closing at the same rate, according to a new study from Roper Research.

At an emergency hearing in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Robertson declared moot a public advocacy group's petition calling for public disclosure of the FBI's e-mail surveillance system because, the court said, the FBI had already agreed to handle the request shortly before t...

British e-commerce is being hampered by consumer fears about Internet security, according to a report released Wednesday by the United Kingdom's National Consumer Council.