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Americans are driving online advertising to new heights as a result of their increasing "per-person daily media use," primarily on the Internet, according to investment banking firm Veronis Suhler.

A lawsuit filed by Ford Motor Company against e-commerce startup Model E was dismissed Monday, handing the custom-car ordering site a significant victory. The new company plans to use the recent media exposure to unveil more details about its "subscribe and drive" service.

The Republican Convention 2000 in Philadelphia was supposed to be the first political convention held wholly in the Internet Age, the first to be subject to the scrutiny of 24-hour Web cams and digital wrist cameras, the first to become instant fodder for chat room debates. It was supposed to be thr...

Software giant Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) launched its Microsoft Reader software for PCs Tuesday, significantly expanding the audience for electronic publications.

A French arbitrator has split up Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, the dueling children of parent company Andersen Worldwide.

Many e-tailers are contemplating the next holiday shopping season with a mixture of anticipation and dread. With increasing pressure from investors to show some black ink, companies like Amazon, Macy's, Toys "R" Us and CDNow are hopeful that shoppers will feel expansive about gift giving and will tu...

While the rest of the world works on expanding the number of top level domains (TLDs) available, adding dot-travel and dot-sex to dot-com and dot-org, a couple of big-name companies are demanding absolute control of the Web in their own way.

E-commerce bellwether Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is restructuring some deals with certain partners in its Amazon Commerce Network (ACN), according to a quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Further fueling the ongoing business-to-business (B2B) frenzy, Citigroup (NYSE: C) and several financial and technology companies announced a joint e-commerce venture Monday that they say will consolidate online payments and simplify e-commerce banking.

The family of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix has prevailed in a legal proceeding brought against the holder of the Internet address Jimihendrix.com, UN arbitrators announced Monday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will head up this year's World E-Commerce Forum, at which global Internet security will be an issue for the first time, it was announced Friday.

Mafiaboy, the 16 year-old Montreal teenager who Canadian police say unleashed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on major Web sites earlier this year, was back in court Thursday to face 64 new charges related to his alleged cyber mischief.

As part of its ongoing effort to expand the scope of the property transactions it hosts on the Internet, eBay, Inc. announced Thursday that it has joined efforts with Berkeley, California-based zipRealty.com to sell real estate online.

Ailing online pharmacy PlanetRx.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX) took another hit Thursday when William J. Razzouk resigned to become a venture partner at Paradigm Capital Partners LLC of Memphis, Tennessee.

High-speed Internet access for Americans jumped dramatically last year, according a government report released Thursday.