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A bidding war for online job site HotJobs (Nasdaq: HOTJ) broke out late Wednesday, when Internet portal Yahoo!(Nasdaq: YHOO) said it offered US$436 million in cash and stock to buy thecompany, which in June agreed to be acquired by TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq: TMPW), the parent of rival firm Monster.com ...

Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) reported narrower operating and net losses for the first quarter ended October 31st, thoughrevenue slipped from a year earlier ...

Online marketplaces and other exchanges that want to grow are looking beyond the initial transaction process and anticipating the needs of customers and users, said a new study from Aberdeen Group ...

With most companies having gone through a rough 2001, and despite an overall caution toward e-tail from many observers, analysts have begun to draw a clearer picture of the 2002 e-commerce stock bargains -- a picture that contains some surprises ...

Online financial services company E*Trade (NYSE: ET) on Friday raised its outlook for next year's income and said it will buy back 20 million of itscommon shares from Internet investor Softbank ...

Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS), the dominant online real estate company, said Thursday that chief financial officer Joseph Shew is leaving the company for "personal reasons." ...

As technology advances and American consumers have more ways to connect to the Internet, e-commerce will shift away from the personal computer and toward a range of devices, with different technologies being used for different purposes, according to a report issued Wednesday by Gartner (NYSE: IT) ...

Online shoppers concerned about credit-card fraud can sign up for addedsecurity under a program introduced Monday by Visa USA ...

Took another bath in tech stocks this year, did ya? ...

Federated Department Stores (NYSE: FD) said late Thursday that it will stop selling merchandise on its Bloomingdales.com Web site and will use the site instead as a "marketingsite that supports the Bloomingdale's store brand." ...

Shares of Internet marketplace firm FreeMarkets (Nasdaq: FMKT) rose nearly 30 percent in early trading Thursday after the company, a pioneer in online reverse auctions, said that fourth-quarter business is proving stronger than expected and that results will be better than previously thought ...

While Internet use in Central and Eastern Europe is growing fast, the required technology remains too expensive for most consumers, posing "formidable barriers" to e-commerce, according to a report released Wednesday by the Yankee Group. ...

Banks and other financial institutions are moving so fast to roll out new online features that they are missing out on numerous opportunities to gain customers, according to an analyst who worked on a newly released study of the industry. ...

Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) has completed the second phase of a two-part financial restructuring, and is nowon its way to reaching profitability and growing again, the company said Tuesday ...

Looking to raise money for a small online business? Experts say that in today's difficult economic environment, some basic tenets for securing financial backing remain -- but other rules have changed, and it is as important as ever to be abreast of those changes ...

Americans expect to do most of their holiday shopping in stores rather than online this year, and those who do plan to turn to the Web say that convenience will be the keyreason, according to two new reports released this week. ...

Internet bellwether EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) rolled out a program that will allow other firms to create their own applications based on the online auctioneer's technology ...

To build trust and gain customer loyalty, online merchants and marketersneed to let Web shoppers feel in control of the buying process, as well ofthe ways that personal information about them may be used, according to areport published Thursday by McKinsey &Co ...

The holiday shopping season is off to a fast start at America Online (NYSE: AOL), the company said Wednesday, raising hopes for a late-year revenue boost for Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and other e-tailers as well ...

Popular search engine Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) will trade high-profile positioning for dollars under a new agreement with Overture Services -- formerly known as GoTo.com ...