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Like many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that have caught the e-commerce bug, the fiercely traditional Tupperware Corporation (NYSE: TUP) has also succumbed to the lure of selling its wares online.

Birthday wishes came true at the Kirkland, Washington headquarters of Birthday Express.com Tuesday, as the company announced it sold a minority stake to venture capital firms for $13.1 million (US$).

In what it says is the first new form of U.S. postage since the invention of the postage meter 80 years ago, Stamps.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: STMP) announced today that it has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Postal Service to start selling stamps over the Internet.

Drawing on its existing relationship with professional services firm KPMG LLP and its strategic alliance mindset, Cisco Systems, Inc.(Nasdaq: CSCO) announced Monday that it has signed a letter of intent to invest $1 billion (US$) in KPMG's Internet services business.

When Internet investor Softbank Corp or software giant Microsoft talk, people pay attention. When they talk together, the audience is tuned in even more.

Executives at HomeStore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) are probably shaking their head in agreement with Charles Dickens' famous "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," opening to "A Tale of Two Cities." Friday, the day after the company saw its share price soar as much as 36 percent in its initi...

Unknown to many of us here on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Scandinavians have been out in the forefront of many Internet-related matters. Today's Norwegian, Swede, Finn or Danish software engineer is the modern-day version of Eric the Red and his Viking cohorts, leading the rest of Euro...

Set to be folded into the NBCi Internet merger shortly, direct e-commerce company Xoom.com (Nasdaq: XMCM) ventured out from under the umbrella Tuesday to acquire online comparison shopping guide, LiquidMarket, Inc. for $45 million in stock.

The Internet industry rumor mill was spinning wildly Tuesday with reports that Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) has been in discussions with [email protected] (Nasdaq: ATHM) that could culminate in at least a $17 billion (US$) takeover of the newly-merged company by Yahoo!.

It might be a foreign company with little household name appeal to a majority of Web surfers, but Oslo, Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer (FST) lays claim to having built the world's biggest search engine.

Leading Internet investment bank BancBoston Robertson Stephens is banking on drawing a crowd as it unveils its 1999 Investing in Innovations Conference today in San Francisco.

In an announcement equivalent to kicking sand at the beach or raining on the parade, Internet marketing research company Greenfield Online said that online shopping decreased three percent this past quarter, the first e-commerce decrease the company's surveys have revealed in the past year.

After spending the last four years advising companies on how to expand their Internet business, USWeb/CKS (Nasdaq: USWB) put its money where its mouth is Friday. The company announced that it would pay over $300 million (US$) in stock for a top consulting company.

Martha Stewart can make a garden grow and a dinner table glow, but does America's leading homemaker know the recipe for a perfectly-formed, golden-brown and successful IPO?

With a reach that stretches around the globe and a finger on the pulse of news events from Australia to Alaska, Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY) announced Thursday that it is forming a new global business unit to expand its reach into cyberspace.

One of the Web's fastest-growing networks and a shopping site with over 29,000 merchants announced Thursday that they would form an online partnership, a move that gives both access to an ample supply of resources.

Roberto Cibrian-Campoy, CEO and co-founder of Latin American portal El Sitio International, expects his company to grow six-fold by the year 2002. Judging by the fast track the company is on in recent months, Cibrian-Campoy might just get his wish.

With its new online store slated for a grand opening, Payless ShoeSource, Inc. (NYSE: PSS) is hoping that at least some of its future customers put their feet up and let their fingers do the shopping.

Joining a number of other portals on the Web looking at small businesses as a large market share, Netscape Communications (NYSE: AOL) announced Tuesday that it has developed an online solution for small businesses on its Netscape Small Business Channel.

With the announcement that both Hearst New Media & Technology and NBC invested in Internet companies, Tuesday was a day for two companies that usually report the news to be in the news.