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A U.S. court has stopped the state of Virginia from enforcing a 1999 law that criminalizes use of the Internet to sell or otherwise provide sexually explicit material that is "harmful to minors."

For the first time in the Internet's history, there are more women than men online in the United States, according to a study released Wednesday.

Continuing what has seemed like an endless cycle of reversals and revivals, e-tail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), faced more disheartening news Wednesday when an analyst's underperform rating sent its shares plummeting nearly seven percent to $30.75 (US$).

UK-based online auctioneer QXL (Nasdaq: QXLC) cast serious doubt Thursday over whether its proposed $942 million (US$) merger with German online auction house Ricardo.de will go forward as planned.

There may soon come a time when both small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses will be rooting for the U.S. government to stick its nose directly into the broadband industry, just as it did when the country was being wired for telephone service, and again when it broke up Ma Bell.

A new poll by Harris Interactive reports that the number of Americans looking to the Internet for health care information has doubled to 98 million since 1998.

E-tailers, even the most popular ones, are universally failing to provide high-quality online customer service, according to a new survey from GartnerGroup, Inc.

Hundreds of would-be satellite TV thieves who logged onto the Web to buy counterfeit satellite access cards instead bought themselves a whole lot of trouble, because the site was operated by the U.S. Customs Service as part of a sting operation.

Welcome back to reality, dot-coms. Word has it that you have stopped spending like it was going out of style. You are clinging to the remnants of your venture capital and the windfall you reaped from your IPO. Good thing. Just one question: Don't you think it's a bit late?

Despite the ongoing dot-com shakeout, the field of e-commerce education in the United States continues to develop. Over the past several years, graduate business schools have attempted a variety of strategies on how to inculcate e-commerce concepts into traditional business school courses.

In an effort to expand its e-commerce presence away from home, U.S.-based retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has partnered with AOL Europe and UK-based comparison shopping site ShopSmart.com.

The Balkans, April 1999. More than 500,000 Kosovars have fled for other countries in response to ethnic strife.

Citing privacy concerns, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) and online auction giant eBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) have halted auctions offering a mailing list of 200,000 U.S. investors to the highest bidder, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

The Internet will be a driving force in both the new and used vehicle market over the next five years, according to a study released Monday by New York-based research firm Jupiter Communications.

U.S. government authorities said Monday they have charged four people and a pharmaceutical supply company with conspiring to sell drugs over the Internet to people without valid prescriptions.