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When AOL bought Time Warner at the start of 2001, the merged company's future looked bright. The air was still fresh inside the Internet bubble, the deal created a company worth a whopping $160 billion, and AOL chairman Steve Case boasted that the dynamic duo would build an unrivaled news and ent...

As expected, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has announced that the tech giant will cut 15,000 jobs in the near future. Interpretation of the staff reductions could be mixed, IDC senior analyst Rob Rosenthal told the E-Commerce Times. "Financial analysts usually see layoffs as a sign that at le...

The German government has decided to move its federal, state and local agency IT systems to Linux, citing reliability issues and a desire to reduce its dependence on Microsoft. Toward this goal, the country has signed an agreement with IBM, which will provide related hardware, software and services ...

Despite concerns about privacy and fraud, recent U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) figures seem to confirm that consumers have gotten in the swing of shopping online, and the e-commerce cash register seems set to ring even more often in the future. The DOC recently reported that although U.S. onl...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last week targeted another file-sharing service, Audiogalaxy, with its copyright protection campaign. The association filed a lawsuit against the Internet company, alleging that it encouraged users to copy and distribute copyrighted works and t...

Since launching its European auction site, Yahoo! has trailed far behind eBay. Rather than simply conceding to the competition, the company found a more lucrative strategy: It teamed up with its rival. EBay and Yahoo! Europe will pool their marketing resources to advertise eBay's sites via extens...

Microsoft is preparing to launch a $10 million marketing campaign and software tools to lure users who are unhappy with AOL's services. MSN product manager Lisa Gurry told the E-Commerce Times that many AOL users have switched to MSN "because they were tired of the over-simplified, over-commercializ...

Although Microsoft had to cut the price of its Xbox console last week to keep pace with rival Sony in the gaming hardware market, the company is poised to announce a $1 billion investment in an online game service that could smoke the competition. "Microsoft is going to do a land grab here," Jupiter...

Mothers were not the only ones delighted by the traditional flood of gifts and flowers last Sunday. According to Internet audience measurement service Nielsen//NetRatings, online retailers that targeted Mom as a gift recipient saw a significant spike in traffic. The rise in traffic at sites that o...

RealNames CEO Keith Teare was not shy about naming the company he holds responsible for shuttering his business, citing Microsoft's refusal to renew its contract with RealNames as the catalyst for the firm's closure. On his Web site, the RealNames founder provided an explanation of why he and 79 ...

Despite deal sweeteners like discounts, only about one-third of Microsoft customers have signed up for the company's new subscription-based upgrade program -- and a July 31st deadline is looming. "From Microsoft's perspective, it's possible that they can make more money with this arrangement even...