E-Commerce

In a record-breaking spree, over 5 million domain names were registered in the third quarter of 2004, according to a report from VeriSign. The registrar said that this is the fourth quarter to produce record registrations, suggesting that the online sector is continuing to grow steadily after a "sli...

Singingfish.com is fine-tuning its image with the launch today of a revamped multimedia search engine on its Web site that specializes in finding audio and video content. This marks the AOL property's transformation from developer and marketer of multimedia search services to companies like RealNetw...

How will this holiday season pan out for online retailers? That depends on whom you ask. An NPD Group survey of consumer holiday buying intentions reveals that the 2004 holiday shopping season could be challenging for retailers. Nearly nine out of 10 consumers say they are planning to spend the same...

Will consumers have a safe and secure holiday shopping season? Or will identity thieves walk away with the lion's share of the profits? According to VeriSign's latest Internet Security Intelligence Briefing, which covers the period from July through September, the number of security attacks has decl...

The holiday shopping season has officially begun, and the sales results are in for the first weekend of the 2004 race for fourth quarter profits. Online and offline retailers alike have a lot to smile about. Indeed, while both brick and mortar and e-commerce outfits are reporting boom times, it prom...

Are you searching for holiday profits? Join the e-club. Countless thousands of online retailers are competing in what analysts call a "zero sum game" where only one vendor can win the sale. However, take heart. There are plenty of sales to go around. EMarketer predicts online retail sales will reach...

Black Friday is taking on a new meaning this year as Yahoo today sets out to shake up the holiday shopping season with the world's largest interactive snow globe smack dab in the middle of Times Square. "We wanted to get the word out about our Comparison Shopping and award-winning Product Search and...

Working through the weekend on a hotly contested topic with ramifications for the Internet and technology industries, the U.S. Senate approved a modified version of a controversial copyright protection bill being backed by the entertainment industry. The Senate on Saturday passed what it's calling t...

Instant messaging provider ICQ plans to officially launch a premium Web-based e-mail service later this week. The America Online property's latest offering gives users 2 GB of e-mail storage, and a suite of other features, for US$19.99 a year. That suite of other features includes an online calendar...

Showing no sign of letting up in its legal war against music swappers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed another 761 copyright-infringement lawsuits against individuals. As in the most recent batch of suits filed last month, the RIAA once again set its sights squarely on...

Overstock.com announced today it will sell 1.2 million shares of common stock at an expected price of US$57.53 per share. That would give the online closeout retailer approximately $65.3 million in proceeds. The company said underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional 180,000 shares ...

Search engine leader and stock market darling Google has warned investors that its skyrocketing growth rate is slowing, a development analysts knew was inevitable but one that might be coming sooner than many had expected. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google said that the...

Is Yahoo going Hollywood? It's a question that analysts are increasingly asking after the Sunnyvale, California, Web portal's hiring two weeks ago of Lloyd Braun, a former chairman of ABC television. He is charged with overseeing Yahoo's entertainment and media properties, including movies, music, g...

Hoping to grab a piece of a business that combines two of the hottest Web sectors -- travel and search -- America Online has purchased a stake in a startup software company already backed by the founders of Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz. AOL made an undisclosed investment in Kayak Software as part...

Google has announced plans to snap up its Gmail service with POP, or post office protocol, over the next couple of weeks. The feature, announced yesterday, will allow users to check e-mail via other e-mail programs, like Outlook and Eudora -- and, thus, to download e-mail and view it offline -- or v...