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Monday's news that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants Congress to pass tough new online privacy laws sent shock waves through the e-commerce world that are still reverberating days later.

Toysmart.com, the online toy retailer whose backers included the Walt Disney Company, announced Tuesday that it has closed its virtual doors after a long weekend of speculation.

A few weeks back, Realtor.com and Homestore.com revealed that they had received requests for information in a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust probe.

Judging by the impact on stock prices in recent days, it may take a while for investors to come to terms with the merger of U.S. Web portal Lycos and Spanish ISP Terra Networks, SA.

Online fashion retailer Boo.com, a splashy symbol of 1999's e-commerce explosion, announced Thursday that it will liquidate its assets after recent failed attempts to get more cash from its backers or find new investors or buyers.

U.S. President Bill Clinton has made the so-called digital divide a major focus of his last full year in office, crossing the country three times to carry the message that in order for the nation to continue to thrive, everyone -- regardless of background or income -- must have access to the Interne...

Following examples set by the computer, steel, automotive and airline industries, 14 of the world's largest mining companies say they will form an online business-to-business (B2B) exchange to cut procurement costs.

Every computer maker great and small seems to have contemplated the same holy grail: To make an inexpensive machine that will connect users to the Internet and allow them to send and receive e-mail. That's it. No complex, breakdown-prone hard drives, no bundled software to choose. Just a machine for...

Mirroring the efforts of several major North American airlines, British Airways announced Thursday that it will join forces with Air France, Lufthansa and eight other European airlines to launch an online travel agency.

On the surface, a red-hot first quarter for venture capital spending appears to be good news for the e-commerce industry. But while venture capital firms pumped a record amount of money into Internet start-up firms during the first three months of 2000, established e-commerce companies picked up a m...

As businesses worldwide continue to count the damages caused by the costliest e-mail-transmitted computer virus in history, Jupiter Communications released a report on Monday predicting that worldwide direct e-mail marketing will balloon from $164 million (US$) in 1999 to $7.3 billion in 2005.

It began as a malicious love letter and ended up as a wake-up call -- another nasty e-mail virus that seemed to prove that a truly safe Internet, if attainable at all, will be realized well in the future.

Recently, word came out that the owner of Hell.com was putting the domain name up for auction. Asking price: $8 million (US$). While most businesses are not likely to be interested in that particular domain name, the asking price does call into question the entire practice of paying big for domain n...

Visa International announced Wednesday that it will join with wireless data services provider Aether Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: AETH) to create a new Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) standard and to develop new ways for customers to make purchases and receive bills over wireless devices.

Just over a week ago, Utility.com landed $30 million (US$) in venture capital from Trident Capital and Idealab!.

Targeting individuals for the first time in its case against the Napster MP3 browser, lawyers for heavy metal band Metallica said Monday that they had identified more than 335,000 individuals who allegedly swapped the band's music on Napster in violation of copyright law.

Consumers spent $7 billion (US$) at online retail sites during the first quarter of 2000, including $2 billion on travel, according to a new report from Harris Interactive.

Despite Friday's court ruling finding MP3.com liable for copyright infringement, the music industry is going to have to start facing some difficult facts when it comes to the Internet.

Online grocer Peapod's attempt to rebound from a series of setbacks has been further stalled by a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of all investors who bought the company's stock between November 8, 1999 and March 16th of this year.

Riding high on this week's favorable financial reports, online auctioneer eBay announced Wednesday that it will aggressively expand its already-booming European operations.