E-Commerce

Facebook came under fire again on Monday as a privacy advocate called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the social network's relationship with data marketer Datalogix. This wasn't just another instance of what have become typical privacy concerns with Facebook. The latest call came fro...

The launch of smartphones with the capacity for e-commerce created a new channel for Internet merchants to address, mobile commerce. M-commerce revenues are expected to grow to $31 billion by 2016, according to Forrester Research. The number of mobile devices available for making purchases on the ...

Trulia, an online real estate listing company, hit it out of the park Thursday in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock priced at $17 per share and then opened at $22.10. It rose an eye-popping 48 percent to reach $25.20 per share at one point before settling in at $24 p...

Walmart is reportedly giving Amazon the boot and will no longer allow the online retailer to sell its Kindle e-readers and tablets -- beyond the inventory it already holds in stock -- in the stores that make up its brick-and-mortar empire. Target made a similar move earlier this year. Now, with Walm...

Groupon is entering the mobile payments space with its own offering, Groupon Payments. The service, which facilitates credit card transactions, is available to any small business in the U.S.; however, it's offered to Groupon merchants at cheaper rates. Groupon is positioning the service as easier an...

Google is poised to climb past Facebook and be this year's top earner in display ad revenue, according to new research from eMarketer. Google is expected to earn $2.31 billion in display ad revenue this year, a 38.5 percent jump from last year, just ahead of Facebook's expected $2.16 billion in earn...

Three public interest groups, Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, have taken the first formal step in lodging a complaint against a carrier with the Federal Communications Commission. They have served notice to AT&T that in 10 days, they inte...

Three public interest groups, Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, have taken the first formal step in lodging a complaint against a carrier with the Federal Communications Commission. They have served notice to AT&T that in 10 days, they inte...

A new chapter is beginning in the antipiracy wars: A so-called six-strike warning scheme will be put into action by the end of this year, said Jill Lesser of the Center for Copyright Information. The CCI was born as a result of widespread revulsion over the ham-handed tactics deployed in the 2000s b...

It's been a long time since the video game faithful lined up for the midnight release of Nintendo's Wii video game console, which arrived back in November of 2006. Now Nintendo no doubt hopes its next-generation console will enjoy the same level of anticipation as its game-changing Wii. The system w...

Cablevision recently invested in upgrading its cable television network to improve the quality of service. Now it is launching a curious marketing and advertising campaign to let customers know about it. It wants to shine up its Optimum brand. Good idea, but the funny part is, it is poking fun at it...

Seeing is believing, the old saying goes, but anyone who has attended a press conference typically knows that seeing isn't always enough to inspire belief. Nokia underscored this fact with last week's unveiling of its new Lumia 920 smartphone. As it turns out, the impressive image-stabilized video t...

Pandora Media's stock dropped precipitously on news that Apple might be entering the online streaming-radio space with a competing product. The news is not official: It has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, based on information leaked by unnamed sources. Still, the ser...

New questions are being asked about how much accountability the crowd-funding website Kickstarter should have when things go sour. The site, launched in 2009, is a crowdsourced lending site designed to help amateur inventors, artists, innovators or organizations receive funding for their ideas. Dona...

Nokia on Tuesday introduced a new music app that provides U.S. Lumia handset owners access to its free streaming music service. "Nokia Music," as it is called, offers more than 150 different playlists, which are reportedly compiled by a team of music experts. In addition to the range of genres provi...