E-Commerce

Antibiotech demonstrators faced off against police outside of the Bio 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The confrontation resulted in 150 arrests, most resulting from demonstrators refusing to disperse from a busy intersection. The demonstrators crowded the streets around the Moscone Conv...

In the midst of Oracle's trial to defend its takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle will disclose merger talks between SAP and Microsoft. In a statement, Microsoft revealed Monday that in late 2003, it approached SAP to discuss the viability of a merger. After months of discussion, it became clear that...

Web performance measurement firm Keynote Systems recently acquired NetRaker, a developer of customer experience management software. Most of NetRaker's employees -- including president and CEO Douglas van Duyne, who became senior director of customer experience products and designs -- joined Keynote...

Social networking pioneer online service Friendster has tapped former NBC entertainment president Scott Sassa as its CEO, replacing interim CEO Tim Koogle. Friendster gave Koogle the reins in March, three years after he had stepped down as CEO of Yahoo and was replaced by Hollywood studio executive ...

Online sales grew more than 50 percent in 2003, soaring past the $100 billion level and turning increasingly profitable, according to a new report from Shop.org and Forrester Research. The "State of Retailing Online 7.0" says sales reached $114 billion in 2003 and are poised to post double-digit gai...

The Chinese government is establishing a committee that will review online games and censor them if it finds questionable content. The review will take place before the games are made available, so subscriptions will never be sold if the committee does not render approval. Objectionable material, ac...

Yahoo has announced it will add a feature to its Web browser toolbar that allows users to easily remove spyware programs from their computers. Called Anti-Spy, the feature is currently in beta. Yahoo will be collecting feedback from beta users and intends to utilize that information to produce the f...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has taken additional steps in its fight against music piracy by issuing nearly 500 more lawsuits against alleged music file-sharers. This action brings the total number of individuals it has sued to nearly 3,000. While the RIAA doesn't yet know th...

Toysrus.com has sued Amazon.com, the company that has run its online store since early 2000, claiming the e-tail giant violated an exclusivity agreement and seeking $200 million in damages. The online wing of Toys 'R' Us claims Amazon is in breach of the original agreement between the two companies ...

As part of its legal wrangling with The SCO Group, IBM has filed a motion for summary judgment in an attempt to remove copyright claims from the multibillion-dollar lawsuit. In its request, Big Blue cited a lack of evidence from SCO that would prove wrongdoing on IBM's part. The copyright claims in ...

Hewlett-Packard posted its best sales figures in company history during the second quarter, exceeding analysts' revenue expectations and matching profit forecasts as demand for printers, servers and outsourcing services remained strong. Offering more evidence that its 2002 merger with Compaq was a g...

Thanks to eBay and its competitors, online auctions have become a common way for individuals and companies to sell goods. More recently, nonprofit organizations have begun to see the light as well, supplementing their fundraising efforts by auctioning big-ticket items and services online. The move t...

Saying the market for sending voice, video and other communications over the Internet is enormous but largely untapped, IBM and Cisco have announced they will work together to help companies make use of the money-saving option. As part of the deal, IBM will market its consulting and integration serv...

Phishing -- a tactic in which fraudulent email directs users to a malicious Web site that masquerades as a site belonging to a legitimate company, such as a credit card firm or bank, while stealing users' personal data -- is unquestionably on the rise. Fortunately, as strategies employed by phishing...

Yahoo will unveil an upgrade of its Web-based e-mail service this summer that includes greatly expanded storage capacity for free users and "virtually unlimited" storage for paid customers. The upgrade is seen as a direct response to Google's controversial Gmail service. While Yahoo did not specify ...