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Electronic commerce and communications are taking center stage in Washington, DC as the weeklong E-Gov conference and exposition kicks off.

With online commerce now a hit for nearly every conceivable product category, from baseballs to diamonds, health insurance to Hot Wheels cars, Adshop Online is taking the next step: selling an entire Web site via the Internet.

The House and Senate Commerce Committees moved in perfect harmony this week, passing companion bills to allow digitally encrypted information to be exported. If they become law, the measures would open America's doors to increased electronic commerce in world markets.

The United States Senate is taking relatively fast steps to curtail gambling on the Internet, but its counterparts on the other side of the Capitol have yet to pay attention to the issue.

Among the flurry of votes Wednesday by the Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Spencer Abraham's (R-Michigan) S.761 Millennium Digital Commerce Act won approval with minimal tinkering by committee members. As previously reported, the bill would make little substantive change in U.S. policy but would ...

The U.S. Commerce Department is looking at electronic commerce to provide the primary economic growth for the United States over the next 100 years, but at the same time, the agency has not yet figured out how big an impact Internet business has had on the country to date.

Suggesting the U.S. government and its state and local counterparts are predators "poised to take advantage of the new kid on the block -- electronic commerce," the Association for Interactive Media has launched an Online Shopping Council watchdog group.

With U.S. soccer star Mia Hamm on stage hosting the Women's World Cup, New York Yankees shortstop/heart-throb Derek Jeter batting 70 points above his major league average and Andre Agassi rising from the tennis cellar to win the French Open, the sporting goods company that outfits all of these marqu...

On the eve of a much-anticipated meeting of federal and state government and private sector representatives to discuss the future of Internet taxation, a widely respected consulting firm said the Internet presents no major threat to sales tax revenues.

On the eve of a much-anticipated meeting of federal and state government and private sector representatives to discuss the future of Internet taxation, a widely respected consulting firm said the Internet presents no major threat to sales tax revenues.

Through a series of alliances announced Monday, Phoenix Technologies Ltd. hopes to take the first click away from surfing, and shopping, the Web.

Desks, file cabinets and books that have been gathering dust in Baltimore City Government warehouses for years are now seeing the light of day -- or at least the light of the Internet -- through an alliance with Classified Auctions.com.

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), the nation's second largest cable TV operator and largest multimedia entertainment company is took a step toward a concerted electronic commerce business this week, appointing top bean counter Richard Bressler chairman of the new Time Warner Digital Media company. Bress...

American Greetings (NYSE: AM) plans to sell a minority interest in its electronic marketing division, americangreetings.com, in an initial public stock offering this fall. The company offered no clues as to how many shares it will offer or how much of the company will go public, though it said it wi...

The U.S. Department of the Interior is taking seriously the federal government's Congressional mandate to make better use of the Internet and electronic commerce opportunities in its daily business.

What's in a name? For Amazon, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BID) name brought a 7 percent rise in its stock price less than one hour after Wednesday's opening bell in New York. For Sotheby's, Amazon delivered a 10 percent boost. Such is the business of the Internet sales w...

The bad news is Canada is lagging behind the United States in electronic commerce. The good news is Canadians are dying to buy Canadian, if only their local businesses would get online.

Local communities are not yet ready to give up the issue of Internet taxation, despite a bone thrown recently by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.

The Los Angeles Times is going the extra mile, or maybe the extra $5 million (US$), to give its advertisers what they call in the ad business "added value."

Seattle, Washington's GreaterGood.com is offering non-profit organizations a way to get in on electronic commerce to raise funds for their causes.