E-Commerce

Hollywood's movie studios and major television networks filed a lawsuit this week claiming copyright violations from Cablevision's planned remote-storage digital video recorder service, demanding an injunction to ban the service. Cablevision's plans, announced in March, are to store content aired on...

What's the best way to reduce the risk of ID theft? Though it sounds counter-intuitive, would you believe that using the Internet more often does just that? A new survey by Javelin Research & Strategy indicates that those who pay their bills online have a lower likelihood of having their identit...

eBay and Yahoo announced Thursday they will work together on a range of fronts, including search and paid advertising, striking a deal that leverages each company's strengths and one that will undoubtedly send shockwaves across the Internet industry. After several days of swirling rumors that the tw...

The Internet is still a very dangerous environment for conducting business. Lurking in the cyberspace shadows are criminal masterminds bent on stealing personal information and credit card numbers to further fund their activities. Almost daily, stories involving new worms, phishing scams or large s...

The company that makes the Morpheus peer-to-peer software has filed a $4 billion suit against eBay and its Skype online phone calling unit, saying others are benefiting from technology that belongs to it. StreamCast Network filed a suit that names eBay as one of 21 defendants, including the founder...

Google has taken the wraps off plans to sell video advertising online, an ambitious move that could unlock significant additional growth potential for the search giant. The company said it will use a placement system that is similar to the AdWords platform in place for text and graphics ads, but wil...

It used to be called digital radio before the marketers decided to exploit the high definition craze in broadcasting and recast it as HD Radio, but whatever it's called, it could be just the weapon airwave floggers need to fend off a growing threat for their audience from satellite radio. Satellite ...

From enterprise search to Web search, technology is rapidly advancing the ability of users to find information faster and with more accuracy than ever. While millions of dollars are being made on search, there's a strong case to be made that e-commerce search offers the most direct return on investm...

Google continues to gain market share in the search space, but its high-profile efforts to extend its reach into the portal realm have yet to succeed. Outside of its search site, Google is still drawing relatively few visitors. It hasn't made a dent in Yahoo's lead or MSN's second-place position.

It is both simpler and more complicated, easier and more difficult to make it in the music business these days. Take the Internet radio market, for instance. Digital recording and music broadcasting once required making rather large investments of capital for systems that could only be operated by e...

Despite being a well-established player, Yahoo can outgrow the overall Internet industry in coming years, company executives told analysts and investors this week. Yahoo used its annual media day to paint an upbeat portrait of the company's future and to lay out a broad menu of new features it would...

In the evolution of social networking, the purchase of MySpace.com by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in the summer of 2005 is considered a key turning point. "Murdoch made a huge bet on MySpace and it's been headline-worthy ever since," Chuck Richard, vice president and lead analyst with interactive ma...

XM Satellite Radio has been accused of "massive wholesale infringement" in a suit filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York by the Recording Industry Association of America. RIAA is targeting XM Radio's latest portable music player, Inno, which allows users to download and store hu...

Which mobile marketing technology is most effective? Is it short message service, or instant dialing? Evidence is now emerging that can help advertising agencies -- and brand marketers -- determine which direct marketing technology is best for persuading consumers. It may be too early to tell whethe...

Would you like to ramp up your e-commerce capabilities? Increase the amount of business you're doing over the Internet? Bring new digital channels into your sales and marketing mix? Or perhaps you would like to better tailor your e-commerce platform to match your business needs and order management ...