E-Commerce

Not content to sell everything from video downloads to cosmetics to furniture, Amazon.com quietly rolled out a new service Wednesday called "AmazonFresh," a grocery store and home delivery site. Currently stating availability only in the Seattle area, the grocery service appears to offer similar ser...

Microsoft is launching a pilot program to test a free, advertising-funded version of Microsoft Works, the company confirmed Friday. Dubbed "Microsoft Works SE 9," the ad-supported version of the entry-level software will be distributed preinstalled on computers manufactured by a select group of part...

A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted 18 people involved in an Internet pharmacy that took in $126 million from the illegal sale of prescription drugs, Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen Hewitt ann...

It's no wonder that industry analysts predict the mobile advertising market will reach $10 billion in just a few short years. The scenario is a marketer's dream: an always on, always with you, two-way device that provides an unprecedented level of user information for the delivery of a device-specif...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a c...

Time Warner's profits for the second quarter were up about 5.2 percent, thanks largely to the strength of its cable division, the company reported Wednesday. Net profit for the quarter was $1.067 billion, or 28 cents per share, up from $1.014 billion, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier, the compa...

Online video watching is growing rapidly, and where the eyeballs go, you can expect advertisers to follow. Sixty-five percent of U.S. broadband users watch video online at least occasionally -- a substantial increase over last year, when that number was 44 percent, according to a report released las...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...