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Back in early 1998 when Laurie McCartney was pregnant with son Jack and shopping for maternity and infant clothes, she surely could not have envisioned herself 18 months later issuing press releases about receiving $14 million in equity funding for her start-up company.

As the searing summer sun continues to bake city sidewalks up and down the East Coast, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and TicketMaster Online-CitySearch (Nasdaq: TMCS) decided to produce a little asphalt heat of their own.

Last week's highly successful initial public offering for China.com caught many of the pundits off guard and demonstrated that the Asian-Pacific market -- despite its numerous obstacles -- is too inviting for many e-commerce companies to pass up.

When it comes to two companies fighting it out for industry supremacy, the traditional sanctity of the court gives way to the immediacy of the press.

Surfing the wave of concern about the dissemination of private consumer information by e-commerce companies and Web organizations, IBM announced today the formation of a consulting services group to convey privacy issues to businesses.

In a concerted effort to become a dominant player in the business-to-business auction market, uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) announced Thursday that it formed an alliance with business magazine publisher, Cahners, to introduce real time electronic bidding to potentially millions of targeted readers.

Saying that Providian Financial Corp. (NYSE: PVN) deliberately copied one of its banner advertisements to divert consumers to its own credit card origination site, online consumer credit company NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD) announced Thursday that it filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and un...

Conventional wisdom might lead us to believe that Web-only businesses are much better at selling their wares online than traditional retailers who have recently jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon.

Media company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) put an end to e-commerce solutions provider iMall (Nasdaq: IMAL) stockholder's lament about Wall Street's lack of attention when it announced Tuesday that it would issue $425 million (US$) in stock to acquire the company.

Recognizing that there are indeed some borders in cyberspace, leading online financial services company E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced Tuesday that it would buy TIR Holdings Limited for $122 million (US$) in stock. The deal is aimed at accelerating E*Trade's efforts to build a cross-border global ...

Standard & Poors -- a name long known in the lexicon of the financial world as the root of the S&P 500 -- announced Monday the formation of a new Internet custom solutions service for financial retailers.

Standard & Poors -- a name long known in the lexicon of the financial world as the root of the S&P 500 -- announced Monday the formation of a new Internet custom solutions service for financial retailers.

The major record labels have already vowed to fight back against MP3 digital music compression. So, Friday's announcement that leading online music retailer, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW), and major record label, Atlantic Records, have paired up with Microsoft to offer secure promotional downloads comes as n...

When there's been millions upon millions of words written about you, it's probably only fair that you be allowed to put in your two cents worth.

The major record labels have already vowed to fight back against MP3 digital music compression. So, Friday's announcement that leading online music retailer, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW), and major record label, Atlantic Records, have paired up with Microsoft to offer secure promotional downloads comes as n...

While it might lag behind in the Nielsen ratings, television network CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is definitely out in front of the pack when it comes to building an Internet presence. The company added to its online portfolio Thursday, with the announcement that it acquired a 35 percent stake in Med...

After a string of months highlighted with huge capital investments, and a number of acquisitions, Go2Net, Inc. is putting the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together for all to see.

When Go2Net, Inc. announced last month that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his venture capital firm, Vulcan Ventures, had purchased an aggregate $426 million (US$) of Go2Net stock since last March, it didn't take a genius to figure out that the company would go on a shop 'til you drop excursion...

While Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is being pushed to the limit by the U.S. Justice Department in its ongoing epic lawsuit, life goes on, "business as usual" for the Redmond, Washington-based software giant.

In name choice alone, a newly-formed coalition of civic organizations, high-tech associations and a sprinkling of private companies send an emphatic message to elected officials about their view of government intervention in the Internet.