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They're invisible to most online shoppers, but analytics programs that are combing through every click they make are dictating what their shopping experience looks like. Thanks to a proliferation of easy-to-use and affordable -- even free -- analytics programs, a growing number of merchants are usin...

Internet auction house eBay on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates by delivering $377.2 million in earnings for the first quarter of this year, a massive 52 percent leap. Despite the strong performance, eBay shares struggled Thursday, falling around 85 cents, or 2.5 percent. The online auction hous...

Clear Channel Communications accepted a new, increased bid to buy the company Wednesday, but there is widespread skepticism on whether the offer will be enough to satisfy shareholders. Clear Channel, the largest radio broadcaster in the United States with nearly 1,200 stations, was offered $39 a sha...

Web services and underlying SOAs offer organizations a heretofore unattainable capacity to capture information from disparate information resources by directly representing and linking these assets, making them available selectively across their information systems environments. Given their scale, s...

After several years of reported abuse, the Bush administration has rescinded lender access to a federal database containing sensitive financial information on about 60 million college students. The temporary move bars college loan firms from accessing the government-run database over concerns of dat...

As the midnight filing deadline loomed large for America's taxpayers Tuesday, users of TurboTax were frustrated by delays in the software's electronic filing system that caused many to miss the deadline. Luckily for them, the Internal Revenue Service understands. In the third such extension this fil...

Vonage says its legal woes have severely restricted its ability to add new customers and ultimately could lead to bankruptcy court, according to a regulatory filing. Shares of the VoIP service provider dropped 6 percent after the company warned this week that legal wrangling with Verizon over patent...

Research In Motion has restored service to millions of BlackBerry users in North America who lost their connections Tuesday night. The company has not said why its network was interrupted over a period of several hours. The "root cause is currently under review," according to a statement. "RIM is cl...

Yahoo reported first quarter net earnings down 11 percent from Q1 of last year as the global Internet brand faces stiff competition from search-based advertising leader Google. Google captured a first-place 48.3 percent of the U.S. search market as of March 2007, compared to Yahoo's second-place ran...

Mega e-tailers have harnessed the Internet with such finesse that their Web sites seem to run on magic. However, the trade is a tricky business, and the options are few. "It's the transactional piece that's the roadblock," says Gartner Research Vice President Gene Alvarez. That is why there are "no ...

AOL is hoping new interactive programs scheduled to be broadcast on its Web portal will snap up valuable advertising dollars that agencies normally shell out on television shows. Time Warner's AOL Internet division on Tuesday announced the production deals for five new Web-based programs in conjunct...

Private equity investors are interested in acquiring BCE, the parent company of Bell Canada, the country's largest telecom provider. BCE has confirmed news reports that it is indeed in talks with pension fund managers to take the company private. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a U.S. buyout firm...

Over the past couple years, the buzz in retail and e-commerce has been all about optimization -- everything from optimizing your Web site for natural search, to pricing and inventory optimization and even getting optimized motion control shoes for running. Now, the hot buzz word is "on-demand," ofte...

In an expected but by no means insignificant move, Google will begin selling 30-second ads to run on hundreds of radio stations operated by Clear Channel Radio. The deal is part of the search engine giant's determined expansion beyond the Internet, and it's one that should bring much-needed revenue ...

Following Google's announcement Friday that it is acquiring online advertising company DoubleClick, its Internet and media rivals began urging regulators to scrutinize the $3.1 billion deal. Microsoft, itself no stranger to competitive complaints both in the United States and abroad, issued a statem...