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AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

EBay and PayPal have announced that their antitrust waiting period -- a time during which the U.S. Department of Justice can ask for additional information from either company -- has expired without government regulators making a second request for more information. That so-called "second request...

As competition heated up during the summer, both the travel and computer hardware sectors saw an uptick in online sales, according to the comScore Media Metrix U.S. Top 50 Internet report for July. Overall, online consumer sales increased to $6 billion, a 26 percent jump from a year ago. The 50 s...

With consumer confidence beginning to ebb, brick-and-mortar stores are implementing new strategies designed to lure consumers across their thresholds. But retailers trying to balance an actual store with an online presence must employ an array of tactics to prevent cannibalization. Fortunately, s...

In a move to woo subscribers away from rival Internet service providers, EarthLink has released a new feature that allows Web surfers to block pop-up ads. Each time an ad window is suppressed, according to EarthLink, the blocker will alert the user with an optional sound effect and a brief change...

Travel site Orbitz has created a direct link to the ticket supplies of its major backers, saying that it will help airlines and consumers save money. According to Orbitz, American Airlines will be first to launch its supplier-link technology, and three more airlines, including US Airways, will be...

As consumers seek relief from bleak news about war and the economy, experts say entertainment could spawn the next wave of lucrative niche opportunities on the Web. For example, Yankee Group program manager Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that Hollywood could prove to be an online blockbust...

Dell has announced second-quarter results that fell slightly short of analysts' estimates, but the company said it expects third-quarter earnings and revenue to increase as it continues to steal market share from competitors. The company reversed year-ago losses in the second quarter as revenue r...

Just as a museum helps visitors learn lessons from the past, a monument dedicated to bad e-commerce ideas might offer a similar education to those who sell on the Web. Such a memorial might impart a key truth: While users will flock to sites that make their lives easier, they will not change thei...

The Nasdaq stock exchange has given BarnesandNoble.com just over two months to either boost its stock price or face delisting, an often fatal blow to a public company's fortunes. BN.com, which launched a $420 million IPO in the dot-com heyday of 1999, received the warning notice because its stock ...

AOL Time Warner has admitted that three deals involving payment to its AOL unit from third parties, amounting to $49 million, might have been erroneously declared as advertising revenue. The company called the transactions in question "an insignificant portion" of its revenue, but nevertheless sa...

The high-profile financial crimes at companies like WorldCom and Enron might lead some to wonder whether high-tech companies are magnets for fraud. Andrew Bartels, a Giga Information Group analyst, told the E-Commerce Times that the industry does not have a genetic defect that makes it more prone...

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo that he expects to see Linux use increase 30 percent each year, and he vowed that Sun will support the operating system and the open source community. But Sun's promise has some industry observers wonderin...