E-Commerce

NBC and News Corp. plan to take on Google's YouTube by forming their own Web-based video outlet to gain exposure for their deep wells of content and partnering with a host of Google competitors to make it happen. The two media giants say their site will instantly be the largest Internet video distri...

It's no secret that e-commerce search and online merchandising have a magnetic attraction. These applications morphed into the e-commerce lexicon as "searchandising," enabling merchants who integrate search and merchandising to realize higher levels of customer satisfaction and returns. Seventy perc...

Google announced Tuesday that it plans to enhance its successful online advertising service by offering clients an alternate business model -- if an ad does not get results, advertisers do not have to pay for it. Now, instead of paying per click, advertisers will be able to experiment with paying ea...

In its latest move to promote its plan to merge with XM Satellite Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio says it will offer lower-priced packages to consumers if the companies are allowed to join. The goal, Sirius noted in a federal filing, would be to offer customers fewer channels at a price less than the ...

Search-driven online marketing is increasingly leveling the playing field for smaller companies to compete against the big boys when it comes to reaching new customers and markets online. B2B search provides a way for small, local advertisers to find the customers and other businesses that are actua...

Blockbuster on Tuesday said it had settled its long-simmering pay dispute with Chairman and CEO John Antioco, striking a deal that calls for him to step down later this year with a reduced pay and bonus package. Under the deal, the company will pay Antioco a bonus of $3.05 million for calendar year ...

Several radio broadcasters and online media companies are challenging a ruling this week that sets a higher royalty fee structure for music played over the Internet. The Copyright Royalty Board, a body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes in the music industry, has decided on a higher fee ...

There is an ever-increasing number of people that are utilizing the Web to support or altogether run their businesses. However, setting up your online storefront is not the last hurdle an e-business owner faces. Once an online presence is established, there is still the matter of marketing your busi...

Internet auction fraud accounts for close to half of all the complaints made to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, according to a report released Friday. Of the 207,492 complaint submissions made to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2006, Internet auction fraud accounted for 45 percent,...

Ending months of speculation, Google confirmed that it has acquired in-game advertising firm Adscape Media. The move could help make Google a player in a market already being heavily targeted by Microsoft and other rivals. Google confirmed the purchase on its official blog through a posting by Berni...

As it grows, a successful Web site or application generates more and more traffic. Unless infrastructure can be scaled to match, its increasingly slow performance will discourage users from coming back, and a promising application will have failed. Raising the ante is the fact that many new applicat...

CBS on Thursday announced a deal with YouTube to form a new Web channel featuring clips and highlights from the annual NCAA basketball tournament known as "March Madness." The deal comes just days after CBS' former sister company, Viacom, filed suit against YouTube -- and its owner, Google -- seekin...

If I've learned one thing in my career in retailing and the Internet, it is that people love the opportunity to save money. They hate it when somebody else is getting a bargain when they aren't. This is actually how I got started in the online couponing business. I noticed when I was "checking out" ...

Taking direct aim at Microsoft, Cisco plans to acquire WebEx Communications for $3.2 billion. Under the agreement, Cisco will purchase all of the outstanding shares of WebEx for $57 per share. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007. The deal dramatical...

I'm an early adopter. I don't just analyze technology from the safety of my own cubicle; I bring it into my home and live with it. I find that by doing so, I gain a perspective that would otherwise be lost. About a year ago, I disconnected my traditional landline phone and signed up for VoIP service...