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Yahoo! has acquired a 15 percent share of European mobile phone service provider Sonera zed Ltd. Although the two companies are not disclosing financial terms of the deal, they soon will begin delivering co-branded mobile services across Europe. During the first phase of the partnership, the duo ...

Internet market research is designed to be evergreen, so that clients who buy advice about online customer service or traffic-building tactics can use that advice later. Typically, Internet market research is so geared toward business goals that companies use large doses of analyst insight when pl...

Media outlets are jumping on the paid-content bandwagon, with national and regional players alike announcing plans to charge visitors for online access to print and broadcast content. Freedom Communications -- a Florida newspaper publisher -- is the latest to join the for-fee parade. The group's ...

Dot-com layoffs awakened from a midsummer slumber, more than doubling in July to 1,750 lost jobs, according to a Challenger, Gray and Christmas report. That makes July the third-worst month so far this year for Internet-related layoffs, behind May, which had 2,078 cuts, and January, when 1,802 we...

In the early days, when profit was just a vague promise that no one seemed to care too much about, e-commerce companies tried nearly every trick in the book, no matter how outrageous or costly, to build their customer base. Online retailers have learned that buyers are much more serious about e-c...

Qwest Communications has agreed to sell its ASP (application service provider) assets to Corio, Inc. for $15 million in a deal that should be completed in late September. Under terms of the agreement with Qwest, Corio picks up the ASP operations of the telecommunications company's Qwest CyberSolut...

In a strong move to execute its new storage software strategy for Linux, Veritas Software has purchased $1 million worth of patents from Storage Engine. Earlier this week, Veritas outlined the next phase of its strategy to lead the Linux storage market. As a first step, the company has released c...

Onetime e-commerce software powerhouse PurchasePro has found itself caught up in dual probes into the accounting practices at AOL, as deals made at the height of the dot-com boom are examined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. PurchasePro has confirmed that documents relating to its now-e...

In its infancy, e-commerce was all about building a Web site, attracting "eyeballs" and capturing orders. But within a few years, with millions invested and no profitability in sight, many e-tailers were forced to close their virtual doors. Now that e-commerce has moved beyond the shakeout stage,...

EBay is reportedly close to a deal to sell its Butterfields division, probably for considerably less than the $260 million price tag the auction house carried in early 1999, when eBay set out to leverage its real-world auction assets. The sale would constitute recognition by eBay of the premise t...

In an attempt to beef up its online music service, Pressplay has unveiled version 2.0, which, according to the company, will give users greater freedom in listening to, downloading and storing music. Like most online music services sponsored by record labels, Pressplay has drawn criticism from li...

A year ago this month, Webvan called it quits. If it seems like the shutdown happened earlier than that, it might be because the company was on the way out for months before its final exit. Or it might be that, in the big picture, Webvan just didn't matter that much. Maybe the Webvan lesson is th...

As e-commerce server providers go head-to-head, touting their wares as the latest and greatest, meaningful hardware comparisons sometimes get lost in the shuffle. But what makes the ultimate e-commerce server? The answer to that question must be based on the particular e-commerce venture and its ...

The war of words over travel site Orbitz has reached the White House. Several Orbitz competitors, including Travelocity parent Sabre Holdings and Expedia.com, recently sent representatives to a White House meeting, at which they made their case for stepping up reviews -- already under way by the ...

Amid growing problems behind the scenes, America Online is releasing the first major beta version of AOL 8.0. The full version is expected to launch this fall. While analysts said they do not expect version 8.0 to attract new customers, new enhancements could help AOL keep the ones it already has...