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China plans to tax sales over the Internet rather than give a tax advantage to e-commerce businesses, according to statements made Sunday by the country's top taxman.

To some e-commerce watchers, Bertelsmann AG has not been maintaining an appropriate demeanor for the fourth largest media company in the world, of late. As it voraciously scoops up book and magazine publishers all over the world, the German media giant is looking more and more like a spoiled kid try...

Under increasing fire from critics, the Group of Eight nations said it will appoint a special task force to make recommendations on how to help poor nations bridge the growing global divide in Information Technology (IT).

Garden.com was launched in September 1995 by Cliff and Lisa Sharples, Jamie O'Neill and Andy Martin with an eye toward creating a virtual store offering a "garden of products, plants, gifts, and services that could grow and bloom on the Internet." The company had its initial public offering in Septe...

Online banking is growing in popularity, with nearly 23 million Americans expected to pay their bills and access their financial accounts online by 2004, according to research firm IDC.

Amid the controversy over the sharing of digital music online, music downloading site EMusic.com, Inc. has launched a new subscription service that will give users unlimited access to its musical library for a monthly fee of $9.99 (US$).

Fending off challenges from technology rivals, software giant Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced Monday that it has been selected to provide technology and hosting services to AeroXchange, a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for a consortium of global airlines.

Sega of America has taken action to shut down more than 60 Web sites and 125 auction sites that the company accuses of selling pirated versions of Dreamcast video games.

Software giant Microsoft is about to release new features for its Web browser that will allow surfers to delete "cookies," the computer implants used by Web companies to track personal information. The features will be part of Internet Explorer 5.5 (IE) and will provide more selective user alerts wh...

No one will admit to liking spam -- the canned pseudo-meat or the unsolicited e-mail that bears its name. But despite the current efforts of governments in North America and Europe to get it back into the can, spam is destined to be, and should be, a fact of Internet life -- just like junk mail is i...

Easily exceeding Wall Street's expectations, America Online, Inc. announced Thursday that an upsurge in e-commerce and advertising income helped double its fourth quarter revenues.

Further fueling the bitter conflict between record labels and such file-swapping operations as Napster, Jupiter Communications, Inc. has released a report showing that people who use the file-sharing networks spend more money on music.

Just two years ago, analysts, venture capitalists and the media were feverish with excitement over the prospects of the infant business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce industry. Dazzling projections spurred unrestrained funding followed by giddy news coverage as one dot-com after another joined the IPO...

Members of the U.S. Congress are attempting to make it illegal for employers to electronically snoop on their employees without first telling them about it.

Despite widespread concerns over potential price-fixing and other antitrust issues, controversial travel Web site Orbitz.com received its first U.S. goverment endorsement Thursday from a Department of Transportation (DOT) official.