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AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

Hotels.com's offices were evacuated and its stock suffered a sharp drop after a white powdery substance was discovered in the company's mailroom. Local authorities in McAllen, Texas, ordered the evacuation of the Hotels.com processing center -- where about 100 people process reservations made thr...

Few things are more gratifying for fans of e-commerce than seeing a traditional company -- especially a muscular, dominant company -- break into a cold sweat over the possibilities of online retail. That is why so many people should be feeling good about Netflix, which is threatening to do to Blo...

Just as MTV changed the face of music, technology has resculpted the public relations landscape. For example, technology allows remote team members to share documents instantly, but e-mail use can result in miscommunication. "If you are in meetings for an entire morning, you will not be able to l...

The U.S. Government Accounting Office has determined that states are losing out on millions of dollars in unpaid excise taxes because of online cigarette sales. This comes after the Federal Trade Commission got wise a few weeks ago that the government might be able to do more to grease the works ...

Cisco Systems has announced an agreement to acquire privately held Andiamo Systems, which develops intelligent storage switching products for the storage area networking (SAN) market. This is the latest in a string of acquisitions by the networking giant, and it marks Cisco's first foray into the...

EBay and PayPal have announced that their antitrust waiting period -- a time during which the U.S. Department of Justice can ask for additional information from either company -- has expired without government regulators making a second request for more information. That so-called "second request...

As competition heated up during the summer, both the travel and computer hardware sectors saw an uptick in online sales, according to the comScore Media Metrix U.S. Top 50 Internet report for July. Overall, online consumer sales increased to $6 billion, a 26 percent jump from a year ago. The 50 s...

With consumer confidence beginning to ebb, brick-and-mortar stores are implementing new strategies designed to lure consumers across their thresholds. But retailers trying to balance an actual store with an online presence must employ an array of tactics to prevent cannibalization. Fortunately, s...

In a move to woo subscribers away from rival Internet service providers, EarthLink has released a new feature that allows Web surfers to block pop-up ads. Each time an ad window is suppressed, according to EarthLink, the blocker will alert the user with an optional sound effect and a brief change...

Travel site Orbitz has created a direct link to the ticket supplies of its major backers, saying that it will help airlines and consumers save money. According to Orbitz, American Airlines will be first to launch its supplier-link technology, and three more airlines, including US Airways, will be...

As consumers seek relief from bleak news about war and the economy, experts say entertainment could spawn the next wave of lucrative niche opportunities on the Web. For example, Yankee Group program manager Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that Hollywood could prove to be an online blockbust...

Sounding the death knell for its hopes of providing round-the-clock trading for investors, Nasdaq has halted plans to move forward with Nasdaq Japan, saying it will withdraw from the troubled Japanese effort by October 15th. The Nasdaq Japan board of directors expressed "deep regret" about termin...