E-Commerce

Amid a barrage of troublesome economic reports, a study released Tuesday suggests online sales are expected to take a dramatic turn upward in 2008. Purchases made over the Internet will shoot up 17 percent and account for 7 percent of retail sales of items ranging from clothing to televisions and co...

The European Union, as a bloc, may be backing Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld as its preferred mobile TV technology, but whether European consumers embrace that platform remains to be seen. There are other options that could in the not-too-distant future enable consumers to access TV in individu...

Nielsen, based in New York and the Netherlands, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase privately held New York-based IAG Research for $225 million. IAG measures consumer engagement with advertisements and product placements across television and the Internet. The company counts some of the la...

On Monday, Yahoo previewed Amp, its new online ad management platform. The platform will allow advertisers to precisely target audiences within geographic, demographic and interest-based categories across a network that includes Yahoo's inventory and that of more than 600 U.S. newspapers within the ...

Microsoft tried to light a fire under its apparently stagnating bid to acquire Yahoo over the weekend, with CEO Steve Ballmer saying a lower price could be in the offing if Yahoo doesn't act soon. The Web portal was unmoved, however, saying Monday that its board remained open to a deal with the soft...

The financial losses tied to Internet crime reached record levels in 2007, the FBI said Thursday, citing data from its annual Internet Crime Report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 -- which the FBI operates along with the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center -- fielded 206,884 co...

Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them. The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than...

Looking to fill what it says is a gap in the consumer's toolbox, real estate site Zillow.com has launched a marketplace to connect home buyers with mortgages. Seattle-based Zillow -- best known for its home-price comparison offerings -- is hoping to do for mortgages what the Web has already done for...

EMI Music has recruited Google CIO Douglas Merrill to head up its growing digital music business, the company announced Wednesday. As president of EMI Music's digital business, Merrill will head a new global function that brings together for the first time leadership responsibility for all of the co...

There are several steps to follow to ensure top rankings in search engines. Sites that follow these simple steps will likely see their traffic and search engine rankings soar through the roof. The better optimized your site is for the search engines, the better results you can expect. The following ...

Haven't seen "The Karate Kid" in a while? Soon, AT&T customers will be able to catch it on their mobile phones. On Monday, Sony Pictures Television said it is launching Pix, the first movie network for mobile TV in the U.S. The network, making use of Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology, will be avail...

Despite widespread belief it would dig deeper into its pockets if necessary to land Yahoo, Microsoft has no plans to sweeten its offer for the Web portal, according to published reports. Microsoft sees no reason to boost its bid at this time, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed ...

Last year, when Viacom visited YouTube and spotted shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other content producers it owns, it decided to act quickly -- and the only quick reaction a company of Viacom's size is capable of in that sort of situation is to sue. Only after many months did other giant TV netw...

Seeking to tap deeper into a key demographic for advertisers, Yahoo on Monday launched Shine, a Web site meant to become an Internet starting point for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Shine will offer content licensed from publishers such as Conde Nast and Hearst in nine categories, including f...

Radio giant Clear Channel Communications warned Thursday that it cannot estimate when its planned sale to a private equity consortium may be closed. The buyers, which include Bain Capital and other private equity firms, stand ready to close on the $19.5 billion deal at the end of the month as planne...