E-Commerce

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...

Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday. Revenue reached $226.4 million, while the number of subscribers rose to 7.1 mil...

Web analytics usage has reached mainstream status, with 82 percent adoption among companies surveyed recently by Aberdeen. However, a vast range of maturity exists regarding analytics process, data analysis and corporate understanding of Web metrics. A fundamental impediment precluding many companie...

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible. A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to scre...

Ask anyone what comes to mind when they think of TJX Companies, and they'll almost certainly mention the infamous data breach earlier this year that exposed more than 45 million customer credit and debit cards to hackers. That's the kind of publicity most companies can do without, but it's also the ...

Microsoft announced plans to acquire online advertising exchange AdECN -- its latest move in an aggressive strategy to build out its advertising platform. Although the financial terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, "all of the shareholders are extremely, extremely happy with the deal and acquis...

For startup e-commerce companies, protecting customer data doesn't always come naturally. Small matters such as getting a business idea out of the starting gates and into the race -- not to mention winning those very first customers -- tend to overshadow the many liabilities associated with collecti...

XM Satellite Radio posted second-quarter results that showed it managed to stem the flow of red ink that has dogged the company, thanks in part to strong gains in sales of new cars equipped with the technology. XM lost $175.7 million, or 57 cents a share, in the quarter that ended in June, compared ...

Web content aggregator Digg and Microsoft announced a deal in which Microsoft will be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on the Digg site. The three-year agreement will allow Digg to focus less on advertising infrastructure and more on innovating the field, said Digg CEO Ja...

Electronic Arts, going wide and deep with in-game advertising, announced Wednesday that it will use Microsoft's Massive in-game advertising division to put ads in its sports titles. The titles include the Xbox 360 and/or PC versions of the biggest sports video games coming in the fall, including "Ma...

Amazon.com blew by Wall Street expectations Tuesday when it reported its second-quarter sales for 2007 were up 35 percent year-over-year. Media sales grew 27 percent, no doubt boosted by 1.5-plus million Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows prerelease orders made by the quarter ending June 30. Howev...

XM Satellite Radio's cofounder and longtime Chief Executive Officer Hugh Panero will vacate the CEO post in August. XM did not immediately name a full-time replacement, instead saying it would use its second quarter earnings conference call scheduled for Thursday morning to outline its plans for the...

Revenues from advertising at sports sites on the Web will catapult in the next five years to more than $1 billion, according to a report from a New York marketing research firm. The report from eMarketer predicts sports sites will rake in $1.1 billion in ad revenues in 2011, up from $400 million in ...

AOL has reached a deal to buy Tacoda, an online advertising firm that specializes in behaviorally targeted marketing. AOL will integrate Tacoda into its Advertising.com division, where the six-year-old firm's behavioral science marketing will be used to help AOL produce more targeted and effective o...

TiVo will introduce a new DVR device in mid-August that will retail for $299, about $500 less than its higher-end Series 3 released last fall. In addition to being more affordable than its predecessor, the device, TiVo HD, will have the capability to replace the box through which users currently acc...