E-Commerce

Eager to expand its reach by honing in on opportunities around the world that its auction platform has missed, eBay has said it will launch a worldwide network of local classified sites. In a move being billed as the auction giant's largest expansion outside its core business, eBay said it had opene...

In a move to boost its small business services, Yahoo today announced the launch of its online Yahoo Small Business Resource Center. The center offers more than 1,000 articles on key business issues, including marketing, legal and human resources. "The new Yahoo Small Business Resource Center provid...

America Online announced plans yesterday to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its customers within a month. AOL Chief Executive Jon Miller said "it's really time" for VoIP services during his keynote address at the VON Spring 2005 conference in San Jose, Calif. Even though Miller ...

E-commerce is growing in leaps and bounds. Searching on global engines for business names based on "Web" or "Net," like WebCom, WebTech, NetSys or NetWeb, will now result in millions of matches. This signals a crisis for business name identities, corporate images and global cyber-branding. The same ...

Hoping to put another episode of dot-com era accounting fraud to rest, Homestore said it has finalized a class action lawsuit filed by investors in the e-commerce company over accounting fraud in the wake of the dot-com collapse. The Westlake Village, California-based company said the settlement in ...

Online news sources gained more clout in the 2004 elections, eroding the dominance of traditional news outlets such as newspapers and radio, according to a new survey. The Pew Internet & American Life Project said that 37 percent of the adult population of the U.S. and 61 percent of the online p...

Bringing its massive reach and brand power to a rapidly emerging niche, Yahoo said today it had launched a studio that would focus on developing video games for smartphones and other mobile devices. The Web portal said the studio is already at work producing its first games for Verizon Wireless and ...

Moving quickly to protect the rights of emerging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a North Carolina-based telecommunications carrier for refusing to accept traffic from Vonage. The action from the FCC came less than a month after Von...

In the latest example of how rapidly search marketing is evolving, Google has said it will feature more editorial-style reviews in its Local Search product. The search giant formally launched Google Local today and said it will use its search technology to return more results with Web sites that off...

State regulation of e-commerce is currently seeking new territory in the online dating industry. Online dating services are a lucrative and rapidly growing industry that continues to draw concerns about the manner in which its members conduct themselves. An increasing number of U.S. states have resp...

TiVo announced today it has been awarded eight new patents in the U.S. and abroad, with five awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that, the company said, cover important aspects of DVD software and hardware design. TiVo also received three grants from the Chinese and Japanese pat...

Contrary to branding beliefs, customers are completely oblivious to a corporation's image being tied to a specific color. In fact, trying to use a color for corporate identity can actually lead to trouble. For example, Orange Mobility, a British mobile phone company of France Telecom, is one of the ...

Revisiting a time-tested strategy of growing through acquisition and working to diversify its holdings, IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it would buy catalog and e-commerce concern Cornerstone Brands in a deal worth around US$720 million. Cornerstone publishes a host of consumer products specialty catalogs...

As the Search Engine Strategies Conference gets rolling in New York this week, Yahoo announced this morning a pair of significant moves: The company is launching a developer network for programmers and has plans for a rebranding strategy for its Overture unit. The Yahoo Search Developer Network is ...

America Online has launched a new feature enabling users of its wildly popular AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) platform to use the contact list feature of the service in the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program. The feature will enable Outlook users to cross-reference addresses and names in their e-mail add...