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Amazon has rolled out the next phase of its five-year partnership with retailer Target, launching an integrated site that offers merchandise from Target, Amazon, Marshall Field's and Mervyn's. The site will give Amazon its first crack at selling clothing online -- just in time for the holiday sea...

They were among the e-commerce sectors given up for dead. But like others before them -- such as online grocery and clothing sales -- they have endured in the face of all adversity, and have even begun to show signs of turnaround. "A lot of sectors have been completely changed from what people th...

Leading travel sites have unveiled a slew of promotions in recent days aimed at boosting their hotel sales, in apparent recognition that long-slumping airline ticket sales might not soon recover. Both Priceline and Expedia unveiled hotel service upgrades targeted at consumers, and Expedia also be...

As though bankruptcy and $3.8 billion in "overstated earnings" were not bad enough, WorldCom has found that another $3.3 billion was improperly reported between 1999 and the first quarter of 2002. The discovery of the additional missing money comes on the heels of a rough period for WorldCom. The...

For Web travelers seeking to lighten their load of usernames and passwords, help has generally been slow to arrive. Some relief for the forgetful has come in the form of functions -- installed on popular operating systems -- that serve to ease the mental burden of those surfing from a single comp...

As if the immediate future did not look dim enough for AOL Time Warner, a group of the company's shareholders has filed what they hope will become a class-action suit against the company for allegedly misrepresenting revenue reaped from online advertising. The shareholders claim that AOL Time War...

Shares of Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide tumbled to their lowest levels in nearly four years after the company reduced its outlook for the rest of this year and said it will lay off more workers. Specifically, TMP said that in the face of lower revenue and earnings, it will raise its to...

Numerous venture capitalists are nursing wounds sustained when companies collapsed and stopped going public at a record clip. But most of the VC firms that can trace their roots back to the pre-boom era are still hanging on, if not thriving. "Those who came late to the party and tried to grab all...

Saying that their livelihoods might be at stake, Canadian booksellers are taking their battle against the arrival of Amazon.com to court. The Canadian Booksellers Association has joined with Amazon's largest Canadian competitor, Indigo Books, to apply for judicial review of an administrative ruli...

The HP-Compaq union not only was the largest merger in technology industry history, it also signaled the end of an era and the beginning of the next chapter in enterprise computing, according to a new report by the Yankee Group. And the HP product lineup has already started to evolve since the de...

If every cloud has a silver lining, is the reverse also true? It is for Jonathan F. Miller. He landed what once might have been -- and might still be -- one of the world's great jobs. He now heads America Online. Not a bad gig. He certainly won't have to go into any strained explanations at cockt...

Nowhere are IT budgets leaner than in the retail sector, where tight margins strictly curtail technology spending. However, a recent report from IDC indicates that the retail IT market will grow rapidly over the next few years and could be worth $40 billion by 2006. Leading retailers are expected...

The first wave of online grocery stores is all but gone, but one year after Webvan secured its title as the biggest dot-bomb ever, the online grocery segment is slowly reinventing itself. Brick-and-mortar supermarkets are cooking up some early success with hybrids of the original model. Indeed, i...

Dot-com incubator CMGI said it has negotiated to end a 15-year, $114 million deal that called for its corporate name and logo to adorn the stadium where the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots play football. Razor and battery maker Gillette will take over the naming rights. While the move ca...

Everyone knows that stock investments are long-term propositions, that if you buy and hold, you are likely to see better returns from Wall Street than from your neighborhood bank. But amid all of that long-range outlook talk, companies are forced to come forward every three months to report on ho...