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You have DotComGuy. You also have the e-Cavemen, the MSN Project Four and -- better nicknames welcome -- Internet Strategist on a Boat.

E-commerce analysts keep a closer watch on the key players in the dot-com industry than the tabloids do of Elizabeth Taylor's marriages. But what about the "oldest e-profession" of them all -- porn?

Funding for e-commerce sites declined amid an overall increase in venture capital funding for the quarter ended June 30th, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree survey released Monday.

Those cheers that erupted in Silicon Valley and all the other technology hotbeds last week were not over a stock market spike or stellar earnings reports. The roar of approval came from tech executives who were elated over Vice President Al Gore's bold choice of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut)...

Value America, Inc. (Nasdaq: VUSA), one of e-tailing's early high fliers, said Friday it has discontinued its retail operations, let go 185 employees and filed for bankruptcy protection so it can develop a business to help other companies sell products online.

A French court has asked a panel of Internet security experts to find a way to bar Internet users in France from accessing Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) auctions of Nazi memorabilia.

American Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) ran into yet another international dispute this weekend when authorities in the religiously conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia closed down one of its sites, clubs.yahoo.com.

E-commerce sales in Canada accounted for only 0.2 percent of total private sector sales last year, a report issued Thursday by Statistics Canada found.

In July of 1999, online pharmacy Drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM) went public with an IPO price of $18 (US$). The stock rose to 67 1/2 before beginning a long decline that would take it to a low of 4 11/16. Shares are now hovering around 6, and Drugstore.com is among the high profile e-commerce firms la...

Large brick-and-mortar chain retailers are showing the strongest sales in a slow summer for online shopping, with women doing the bulk of the buying, according to statistics released Thursday by PC Data Online.

Well, it's official. The numbers finally prove what even the staunchest resister must have recognized all along: The Internet is no longer the last remaining bastion of maleness.

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the process of selecting a panel of scientists and experts from a major university to scrutinize "Carnivore," the FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance system. The DOJ plans to make the panel's report on the ...

A federal court in New York has sentenced the first person to stand trial for operating an offshore gambling business that unlawfully accepts bets from Americans over the Internet.

Marking its second major e-commerce deal in just under a week, e-business applications provider Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN) announced an alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) Thursday to jointly sell, market and engineer e-commerce hardware and software products.

E-tail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Toysrus.com, the online division of venerable toy store chain Toys "R" Us (NYSE: TOY), announced a partnership Thursday to sell toys and video games.