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Name-your-price pioneer Priceline.com announced Monday that it cut its second-quarter loss to a bare penny per share, excluding special items, as revenues topped $352 million (US$). The Norwalk, Connecticut-based retailer of airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, gasoline, telephone long distanc...

E-tail powerhouse Amazon.com has been selected by novelist Stephen King to provide a secure payment system for monthly downloads of "The Plant," the latest electronic book to be made available over the Internet by the best-selling author.

Easily exceeding Wall Street's expectations, America Online, Inc. announced Thursday that an upsurge in e-commerce and advertising income helped double its fourth quarter revenues.

Further fueling the bitter conflict between record labels and such file-swapping operations as Napster, Jupiter Communications, Inc. has released a report showing that people who use the file-sharing networks spend more money on music.

Just two years ago, analysts, venture capitalists and the media were feverish with excitement over the prospects of the infant business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce industry. Dazzling projections spurred unrestrained funding followed by giddy news coverage as one dot-com after another joined the IPO...

Members of the U.S. Congress are attempting to make it illegal for employers to electronically snoop on their employees without first telling them about it.

Despite widespread concerns over potential price-fixing and other antitrust issues, controversial travel Web site Orbitz.com received its first U.S. goverment endorsement Thursday from a Department of Transportation (DOT) official.

Sega of America has taken action to shut down more than 60 Web sites and 125 auction sites that the company accuses of selling pirated versions of Dreamcast video games.

Software giant Microsoft is about to release new features for its Web browser that will allow surfers to delete "cookies," the computer implants used by Web companies to track personal information. The features will be part of Internet Explorer 5.5 (IE) and will provide more selective user alerts wh...

No one will admit to liking spam -- the canned pseudo-meat or the unsolicited e-mail that bears its name. But despite the current efforts of governments in North America and Europe to get it back into the can, spam is destined to be, and should be, a fact of Internet life -- just like junk mail is i...

In an attempt to extend its dominance of the video rental market to cyberspace, Blockbuster, Inc. has inked a deal with utility firm Enron to offer videos for rent over the Internet.

We are on the edge of a new epoch. The moment that will usher in this brave new world will not be as dramatic as, say, dinosaurs disappearing in a great, cataclysmic convulsion as fireballs pelt the earth. It will be slightly more mundane: Microsoft will overtake Coke as the world's most valuable br...

Just four months after former General Motors executive Roy Roberts unveiled M-Xchange.com, a business-to-business (B2B) trade exchange focusing on minority businesses, the venture has shut down.

Barnes & Noble.com announced the launch of its online video store, which the company says will feature tens of thousands of movies in both DVD and VHS format.

Barnes & Noble.com announced the launch of its online video store, which the company says will feature tens of thousands of movies in both DVD and VHS format.