E-Commerce

Claria Corp. makes some US$100 million a year selling pop-up advertising on the Internet, but with the launch of its PersonalWeb product this month, it's hoping to hitch a ride on a bigger gravy train. With PersonalWeb, a permission-based vehicle for slotting customized advertising into Web pages, t...

Seeking to lay claim to a technology that could help create a syndication network for advertising that would be distributed the way blogs and other newsfeeds are now, Google has applied for a patent for its RSS advertising feed. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a widely used technology that ena...

Yahoo today announced agreements with both CNN.com and ABC News in which both news organizations will provide daily video news feeds to Yahoo News starting next month. CNN.com will offer extensive video clips daily and ABC News will offer a robust package of on demand video content. All of the video...

Ask Jeeves launched a new paid listings program today, putting an automated, self-service auction system in place that mimics what search leaders Yahoo and Google offer to advertisers. The company said the Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings system would make it easier for advertisers to buy, manage and o...

In a snapshot of how competitive the battle has become to capture users' digital photography endeavors -- and the dollars that could follow -- Shutterfly has said it would begin offering its members free Web pages where they can store and share their images. Shutterfly Collections, as the service is...

A new study reveals that today's teenagers are more wired and Web-savvy than ever but also indicates that they are embracing non-traditional means to use the Internet -- bypassing e-mail in favor of instant messaging, for instance -- a trend that experts say will force the e-commerce industry to be ...

Web surfers are annoyed as hell and they're doing something about it. That's the thrust of the findings in a survey to be released next week by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service with more than 400,000 global clients. According to preliminary information from the survey, obtained by t...

Number two handset maker Motorola has said it will pre-install applications meant to make it easier for users to access Yahoo Web content from mobile devices, the latest in a line of partnerships designed to bring the Web to consumers wherever they go. Motorola said yesterday that a line of phones, ...

Online auctioneer eBay this week strengthened rules to prevent fraud on its site, as cases continue to emerge of disreputable sellers misrepresenting the products they market there. One allegedly fraudulent eBay merchant was sued this week by the Missouri Attorney General, Jay Nixon, after an indivi...

New data suggest legal downloading of digital music is experiencing dramatic growth worldwide, with the number of songs legally acquired online tripling in the first six months of 2005. The report said 180 million tracks were downloaded globally between January and the end of June. The same study, c...

This fight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is all about a golden key, as without it, the Internet is completely useless. That golden key is a name on the Net called a URL. It's all about the master design of a sophisticated key management system so that billions ...

In a pair of deals that could catapult mobile gaming to new heights, Electronic Arts said it will make some of its titles available on the networks of Verizon and Sprint, two of the top three wireless carriers in the United States. EA will make a range of games available within coming weeks via dire...

Internet search powerhouse Google garnered 37.6 percent of all U.S. search queries on the Internet in this year's second quarter, according to comScore Networks, a Net metrics service firm. That's the largest market share that Google has had in a quarter since comScore began compiling its search re...

EBay is an icon for online merchandising for both private sellers and small companies. However, industry watchers warn that user dissatisfaction over increased rates and its rules could give alternative auction Web sites more market share. Rival auction sites are catering both to newcomers to online...

A report by an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) panel on domain hijacking that was intended to raise a red flag in the Internet community about the practice has been met with mixed reaction, leaving at least one victim seeing red. The Security and Stability Advisory Commit...