E-Commerce

Google is reportedly offering media companies millions of dollars in upfront payments if those outlets allow their content to be shared on the YouTube video sharing site that Google has agreed to buy. Reports say Google CEO Eric Schmidt is leading an effort to convince media companies such as NBC Un...

For decades, Apple Computer has counted on the loyalty of its customers to fuel the company's success, but in one of its most important markets there may be signs that that loyalty is flagging. According to a survey released Wednesday by ABI Research, 58 percent of iPod owners who plan to buy a new ...

Auction site eBay has always considered itself a community, making it an early adopter of some of the aspects of social networking, which is presently red hot. Today, its sellers and buyers are able to reach beyond the virtual walls of eBay to tap into existing social networks, something more e-comm...

Bidding to stake a claim in the converged world of Internet and entertainment, AT&T Wednesday unveiled an expanded Homezone service. The product integrates high-speed Internet service with satellite TV and home networking functionality to create a digital living room where a single device contr...

Bidding to stake a claim in the converged world of Internet and entertainment, AT&T Wednesday unveiled an expanded Homezone service. The product integrates high-speed Internet service with satellite TV and home networking functionality to create a digital living room where a single device contr...

Bidding to stake a claim in the converged world of Internet and entertainment, AT&T Wednesday unveiled an expanded Homezone service. The product integrates high-speed Internet service with satellite TV and home networking functionality to create a digital living room where a single device contr...

Emphasizing its belief in the value of user-created content and online collaboration, search giant Google has acquired JotSpot, a startup that develops online collaboration tools known as "wikis." Wiki tools, which are increasingly being embraced by the corporate world, let users create, modify and...

By all accounts, the e-commerce sector is poised for another blockbuster holiday season, with forecasters calling for another year of double-digit growth and sales of about US$27 billion for the fourth quarter, according to Forrester Research. Most retailers are already well underway with plans to c...

The business-to-business market was the darling of e-commerce pundits way back in the early '90s when companies began to get serious about using the Web to do business. B2B e-commerce was expected to lead the way into a brave new online world of business communications, management and international ...

Today it seems like every owner of a decent size database now calls itself a "specialized vertical search engine." I suppose there is some clever marketing logic in positioning oneself as such given the wholesale adoption of search as a business tool, and of good search results as a very cost-effect...

Fans of online banking can hardly imagine how they lived without the channel. Just as snail-mailed personal correspondence has gone out of fashion in favor of e-mail and text messaging, so have snail-mailed account statements and bills. Consumers use online banking for its convenience and the contr...

Government officials have launched investigations into fraud cases that are costing electronic brokerages millions of dollars. Two of the largest e-brokerages are reporting computer hacking incidents in which criminals apparently manipulated client accounts at TD Ameritrade and E-Trade Financial. TD...

Security-conscious online shoppers have long feared that thieves will snatch their credit card number and other personal information right out from under their fingertips as they nervously click the "buy now" icon on retailers' Web sites. The proof is in the numbers: 80 million consumers who use the...

Online advertising, like many novelties that play on the Internet, at first grabbed a great deal of attention from businesses. Online advertising was the new fad, and many people predicted it would overtake traditional advertising forms. Now that the newness of Internet advertising is wearing off, s...

IBM said Monday it has sued Amazon.com, alleging the e-commerce retail giant has infringed on a number of its patents. IBM is seeking unspecific damages and said the suits were filed only after some four years' worth of attempts to negotiate licensing deals between the two companies. Big Blue filed...