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Portals are increasingly leading their massive audiences to the e-commerce watering hole, according to June ratings just released by Nielsen//NetRatings.

Novelist Stephen King, already a trailblazer in electronic publishing, will begin a revolutionary online experiment Monday when he sells the first installment of his new novel using the "honor system."

With a nod to the far-reaching power of the Internet, Texas Governor George W. Bush Wednesday made a full-day event out of relaunching his presidential campaign Web site.

After meeting in Brussels with European Commission officials on Wednesday, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Robert LaRussa said that e-commerce issues related to Internet taxation and data protection should be the subject of ongoing international dialogue.

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...

The high-tech economy spawned a new breed of the super-wealthy by appealing to the gambling lust of some very smart and extremely ambitious people. They made their fortunes not through blood, sweat and tears, but through stock options. Some of the billionaires thus created are worth a few billion do...

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is scrambling to keep users from being affected by the latest security flaw in its software, an opening that could allow malicious users to take over other computers.

Online media company CNET Networks, Inc., which provides information on tech products, news, and television programming, has agreed to acquire Ziff-Davis' tech news site ZDNet for $1.6 billion (US$) in stock.

With an eye toward becoming one of the first online travel services to show a profit, Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) reported a stronger-than-expected second quarter Wednesday and declared that it expects to turn a profit by the end of 2001.

Women's online network iVillage, Inc. (Nasdaq: IVIL) announced plans Wednesday to create a 50/50 joint venture with Tesco PLC, Britain's largest retailer and the operator of Tesco.com, to serve the women's online market in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

E*Trade Group, the third-largest online brokerage in the United States, said Wednesday it squeaked out a razor-thin fiscal third-quarter profit on revenues that fell sharply as trading volumes withered. Analysts had expected a loss of one cent per share, but the Menlo Park, California-based company ...

The Holy Grail of the baseball memorabilia world, a near-mint condition card depicting Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop John Peter "Honus" Wagner, has been auctioned off by eBay for $1.265 million (US$).

Even the checkout line tabloids would have trouble making this news sound surprising: A company that pays people to surf the Web is laying off workers. On the surface, it seems that if anything is shocking about this revelation, it's that it did not come sooner.

America Online and Citigroup Inc. have announced a new multi-year alliance that will enable AOL's 23 million subscribers to pay their bills online.