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Given the powerful double-digit growth of e-commerce during the first decade of the industry, few merchants worried that a payment alternative to credit cards or the well-established PayPal was needed. More recently, however, as e-commerce growth rates slow, the fast-growing, credit card-free altern...

Microsoft's three-week deadline for Yahoo to initiate formal talks about a merger has passed, putting the software giant in the position of having to decide how aggressive to get in its bid to take over the Web portal. The three-week deadline that CEO Steve Ballmer set in a letter to Yahoo earlier i...

Telecommunications giant Verizon Communications reported a strong profit boost for its first quarter as growth in its wireless business and its fledgling video service helped compensate for losses in its traditional home phone segment. The numbers from Verizon and those from competitor AT&T, whi...

Brushing aside concerns about a drop in paid click rates and sliding past estimates, Google posted results Thursday showing not only that it remains king of the online advertising space but that it can continue to grow sales and profits in uncertain economic times. Revenue at the search giant rose 4...

Benefiting from strong overseas sales and a weak U.S. dollar, IBM posted strong quarterly results and raised its guidance, adding to what's becoming a winning streak for technology stocks. On the heels of a strong report from fellow tech bellwether Intel, IBM beat expectations for its first quarter,...

Web auction giant eBay posted strong first-quarter results Wednesday despite weaker-than-expected growth in buying activity in core markets such as the U.S. and the UK. eBay posted net income of $460 million, or 34 cents per share, up 22 percent from the $377 million it earned in the same quarter in...

Intel posted first-quarter results Tuesday that met or slightly beat expectations -- the chipmaker lowered its own targets last month -- and posted record revenue for the seasonally slow time of year. The company's results were a win for the tech sector, with investors driving Intel shares up about ...

Ten years after the Internal Revenue Service first flipped the switch on electronic tax filing, key lawmakers said Monday the time has come to make e-filing free for all taxpayers -- a move that could cost software makers millions in annual revenues. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Se...

In a surprise move that could reshape the consumer electronics and movie rental industries, Blockbuster went public Monday with an offer to pay as much as $1.3 billion to acquire Circuit City. Blockbuster announced that it made the offer to Circuit City directly on Feb. 17 but went public with it be...

Lyris, best known for its e-mail advertising services, has launched a portal meant to give online marketers a place to foster community and learn from one another. Lyris plans to formally launch the LyrisHQ portal at the Ad:tech conference next week. The site is already live, offering content and in...

Military gear that could be used in terrorist operations is showing up on eBay and Craigslist, and some lawmakers are calling for action. In response to the House Subcommittee on Security and National Affairs' request to investigate online sales of sensitive military equipment, the Government Accoun...

Verizon has filed a lawsuit against Time Warner Cable, claiming that company's advertising gives a false impression about the telecom firm's new fiber optic-based TV service. Verizon filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In it, the company claims ...

Yahoo has launched a limited test of Google's AdSense search advertising service, a move that Microsoft immediately slammed as anticompetitive and one that came amid a flurry of new developments in the Microsoft-Yahoo saga. The test covers no more than 3 percent of the search queries generated from ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received more applications for 2009 H-1B visas than it can issue, exceeding the congressional limit on the tech-friendly program just days after applications were first accepted. The agency has received enough petitions for H-1B visas to meet the 65,...

Microsoft tried to light a fire under its apparently stagnating bid to acquire Yahoo over the weekend, with CEO Steve Ballmer saying a lower price could be in the offing if Yahoo doesn't act soon. The Web portal was unmoved, however, saying Monday that its board remained open to a deal with the soft...

Over the past five years, 42 of the technology companies that Mercury Ventures has invested in have made the transition from publicly traded to private firms. That is part of a larger trend among smaller publicly traded companies, for whom the benefits of being public no longer clearly outweigh the ...

The financial losses tied to Internet crime reached record levels in 2007, the FBI said Thursday, citing data from its annual Internet Crime Report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 -- which the FBI operates along with the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center -- fielded 206,884 co...

Though the basic outcome of the Federal Communications Commission wireless spectrum auction has been known for some time -- Verizon Wireless and AT&T won major chunks of the spectrum while Google was shut out -- responses to the closely watched event came fast and furious Thursday as the anti-co...

Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them. The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than...

Looking to fill what it says is a gap in the consumer's toolbox, real estate site Zillow.com has launched a marketplace to connect home buyers with mortgages. Seattle-based Zillow -- best known for its home-price comparison offerings -- is hoping to do for mortgages what the Web has already done for...