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Consumers will spend $237 billion on online purchases in the United States alone in 2010, Javelin Strategy & Research predicts. That's almost 15 percent more than in 2009. Online retail is also growing globally. MasterCard announced a global agreement with cross-border e-commerce shopping firm B...

After resisting pressure from advocacy groups and attorneys general for more than a year, Craigslist has decided to permanently remove its adult services section from its online classified ads in the United States. Elsewhere around the world, the section will remain live. The site closed the section...

Will Stephen Elop, the new Nokia CEO, be able to turn the company around? That is the question. It all depends on what he does -- this is a big job. He has to focus on transforming not only the technology, but also the brand. He has to reinvent Nokia's image in the mind of the customer. Will it work...

Intel on Tuesday announced it's taking its AppUp app store out of beta, just eight months after announcing the portal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The store has 450,000 users, Intel claims. Developers must use the AppUp software development kit, and apps can only run on ...

It appears that Google is about to take on social networking stalwart Facebook in stages. The company's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told reporters at an Arizona conference Tuesday that Google plans to gradually introduce social networking features beginning this fall. Google intends to add layers o...

As the summer comes to an end, most people are thinking about the back-to-school season, but retailers around the world are already focusing on the winter holiday season ahead. They're assessing inventory and developing marketing strategies, aiming to steer more traffic to their e-commerce sites. Th...

The revolving door is spinning fast at Nokia, as the company tries to reposition itself to compete with a wave of new smartphone competition. The latest news from the boardroom is that Chairman Jorma Ollila, the executive credited with turning Nokia into the world's largest cellphone maker, will ste...

Microsoft may find itself at odds with the Russian government after creating a new license permitting free use of its software by certain nonprofit organizations and small newspapers in more than 30 countries around the world. Microsoft's move was in response to a Sunday New York Times article detai...

It's no secret that newspaper companies are seeking new sources of revenue as readers -- and the advertising dollars that typically follow them -- migrate to electronic media. The New York Times Co. was among the first newspaper publishers to deliver its content to mobile devices. Now, it's hoping t...

It's no secret that newspaper companies are seeking new sources of revenue as readers -- and the advertising dollars that typically follow them -- migrate to electronic media. The New York Times Co. was among the first newspaper publishers to deliver its content to mobile devices. Now, it's hoping t...

It's no secret that newspaper companies are seeking new sources of revenue as readers -- and the advertising dollars that typically follow them -- migrate to electronic media. The New York Times Co. was among the first newspaper publishers to deliver its content to mobile devices. Now, it's hoping t...

HP has announced it is acquiring security-software maker ArcSight for $1.5 billion. It is the second major acquisition the company has made since the departure of its CEO Mark Hurd last month. It appears HP might have agreed to pay too much for the company, which makes corporate network security mon...

On September 9, President Obama named Ron Bloom, a veteran of Wall Street and the labor movement, to be the new special adviser on manufacturing. As manufacturing represents an 11 percent share of the GDP, down from 30 percent in the 1950s, presumably the hope is that a Manufacturing Czar will be ab...

Nokia has announced that President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will leave his position on September 20, handing the keys to Microsoft executive Stephen Elop. Kallasvuo's departure is likely due to Nokia's failure to crack the smartphone market -- the U.S. market in particular -- under his guidanc...

The collective intelligence of employees and the extended corporate community can transform overwhelming quantities of raw data into organizational knowledge. Of the 300 organizations that participated in Aberdeen's June survey on collaboration, those that respond to business threats and complete ke...