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Yahoo! has announced a multiyear deal with USWineAuction to bring the wine seller's entire inventory of collectible bottles to Yahoo's auction site. USWineAuction will be the sole seller of wine on Yahoo's U.S. auction platform, and Yahoo! will distribute and promote the company's wines across it...

A real price war has broken out, albeit a limited one, with superpower Amazon and the more guerilla-style Buy.com squaring off over free shipping. Both deals are good news for consumers. At Amazon, you have to buy half as much now -- only $49 -- as the company used to require to get free shipping...

In the largest product rollout in Hewlett-Packard's history, the company plans to launch more than 50 new imaging and printing products between now and early 2003. HP spent three years and more than $1 billion revamping products in its printing business, which accounts for $20 billion in annual r...

A limited price war has broken out in the online bookselling arena as Buy.com, Amazon.com and BN.com vie for customers, offering steep discounts reminiscent of the earliest days of online commerce. Buy.com has fired the latest volley, saying it will sell 1 million book titles at 10 percent below Ama...

In an effort to replicate the Virgin Megastore experience online, Virgin Entertainment has handed control of the company's e-commerce efforts to Amazon.com. Amazon will handle inventory, customer service, site content and fulfillment for VirginMega.com. The agreement with Virgin comes after Amazo...

Interactive TV never exploded onto the scene in the way its promoters hoped it would, and the features it once promised -- ranging from movie selection to Web-based shopping and games -- have been co-opted by other technologies. What happened to this once-hyped technology? GartnerG2 vice president...

One in five Internet users in the United States accesses the network with a cable modem, DSL connection or other broadband device, up nearly 25 percent from the beginning of this year, according to a study of Internet usage habits by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "I know there was...

Underscoring the notion that selling on eBay has become a full-time job for many millions of users, the auction giant has announced it will offer a health insurance plan to some of the more active members of its community. The plan, which will include dental, vision and pharmacy coverage, will be...

Northwest Airlines has discontinued its relationship with online travel auctioneer Priceline. The airline reportedly is concerned by changes in Priceline's business model, which was recently modified to include a fixed-price option. But analysts said they suspect the real reason may run deeper, si...

Enterprise cannot swing an optical mouse these days without hitting a Microsoft product. But despite the software giant's aggressive posturing, enterprise is hardly at its mercy when developing a blueprint for e-commerce. In fact, it is easy to avoid Microsoft altogether, Giga Information Group a...

Companies that create a sense of online community not only give like-minded people a place to call home, they also reap revenue. They achieve this goal by offering compelling content that builds trust and credibility with visitors and keeps them coming back. The most profitable example is online ...

PayPal has announced it will shift its credit card processing to Wells Fargo & Co., making the financial giant the third company in the past year to handle PayPal's credit card transactions. "Credit card processing has been an issue in the past with PayPal," Morningstar.com analyst George Nic...

Ask online marketing experts whether it is possible to build a brand strictly by using the Web; most of them will say it is. And almost all of them will move quickly to qualify their answer. "I think it is possible, but I'm not sure it's the most effective way to build a brand," David Rosenblatt,...

The search is over. The ultimate symbol for the meteoric rise, painful fall and slow, strange resurrection of the dot-com empire has been found. Starting next month, the one-time Pets.com sock puppet will begin appearing in television commercials for a company that finds car loans for people with...

Intel has announced, unsurprisingly, that it is withdrawing from the Web hosting business. The chipmaker said it will shut down the business unit and take a $100 million charge in its second fiscal quarter. The company launched its Web hosting effort, Intel Online Services, in 1999, as dot-com fe...