E-Commerce

IBM continues to carve out its own stake in the social enterprise app space -- a market forecast by Forrester Research to grow 61 percent each year to reach $6.4 billion by 2016 -- with the beta rollout of the next release of its enterprise social networking platform, IBM Connections. The beta, whic...

The White House delivered a body blow to the Stop Online Piracy Act when it announced Saturday that it opposed major elements in two Congressional bills that were intended to curb copyright violations on the Internet. The reactions were immediate. Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News. Corp., atta...

Thieves have made off with personally identifying data on 24 million customers of online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos. Announcing the hack on Sunday, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said that the thieves broke into the company's system through one of its servers in Kentucky. Although customers' personal d...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers began accepting applications for new generic top-level domains at one minute past midnight on Thursday. This is a major change for the Internet as we know it. The new gTLD program will expand the current selection of top-level domains such as ....

SOPA opponents -- that is, the people and organizations lining up against the Stop Online Piracy Act -- clearly still have their work cut out for them. At the same time, there are signs that the massive protest against the bill is having some effect. The bill's chief sponsor, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has written to the Federal Trade Commission to look into new features in Google's search engine. "We've asked the FTC, as part of its investigation for possible antitrust violations, whether changes in Google search constitute an antitrust violation and ...

It has been a rocky week for the medical news website WebMD, and it appears that the remainder of 2012 may be equally tumultuous. On Tuesday, WebMD CEO Wayne T. Gattinella resigned, and the company announced it was not looking for a buyer after all. It informed shareholders that 2012 revenue could c...

The retail space is changing. Twenty years ago we used to shop and buy in person at retail stores. Ten years ago, the Internet started a change Wave. We could buy online but were not ready yet. So we shopped online, but we still bought in person at stores. Now we have reversed this trend completely....

AT&T on Monday announced a new API platform and app store, called "AppCenter." The online store will be opened later this year and will feature HTML5 software. The store will sell wares for Android phones and iPhones. Unlike the Android Market or Apple's App Store, the platform will be similar t...

AT&T on Monday announced a new API platform and app store, called "AppCenter." The online store will be opened later this year and will feature HTML5 software. The store will sell wares for Android phones and iPhones. Unlike the Android Market or Apple's App Store, the platform will be similar t...

Google is not giving up on its dreams to become a TV star. The company announced Thursday it added LG to its growing list of television partners that will debut hardware running an upgraded version of Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas. The search giant's first run at ...

A recent report has once again stirred up rumors that Google is planning a tablet of its very own, a product line that could be akin to the company's series of Nexus Android smartphones. The tablet could debut sometime in March or April of this year, according to the report, and it will be priced t...

This is a followup to an article that I wrote for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Why Publishers Are Afraid of Amazon." In that article, I mention that Amazon is now facilitating those authors who choose to self-publish. I also mention that The New York Times recently quoted Russell Grandinetti, one ...

Yahoo finally gets a leader. The company announced Wednesday the appointment of Scott Thompson as CEO, effective Jan. 9. Thompson was also appointed to the board of directors. Interim CEO Tim Morse will resume his role as chief financial officer. Yahoo fired former CEO Carol Bartz four months ago fo...

Daily deal industry leader Groupon dropped some 8.9 percent in stock value on Tuesday, following the release of a report from Susquehanna Financial Group and Yipit. The report surveyed some 400 merchants about their experiences with Groupon, LivingSocial and other providers in this space. A healthy ...