Online auctioneer eBay has expanded into the fixed-price marketplace by agreeing to purchase person-to-person Web marketplace Half.com in a stock deal valued at US$350 million.

Half.com sellers simply enter the ISBN code for a book or a UPC code for a CD, video or movie, describe the conditi...

Network Security Technologies, Inc. announced the discovery Thursday of destructive software that has been clandestinely implanted into thousands of business and home computers.

The Herndon, Virginia-based company says the software is secretly loaded on computers when an unsuspected user ope...

Just when it seemed that two Internet grocers were headed for the dot-com chopping block,...

A growing number of investors have come to believe that pure-play e-commerce companies ar...

Recently, it has been reported that Russia is on the verge of cashing in on a growing boom...

This week, a long-overdue precedent was set when the operator of a sports gambling Web sit...

In what has become a persistent problem for popular Internet sites of late, the Nation...

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow i...

In an effort to jump-start e-commerce, the European Commission (EC) has warned Europea...

Just one day after a hacker attack on Yahoo! shut the giant portal down for several hours, several leading e-tail sites were similarly affected by what appears to be an orchestrated, Web-wide act of sabotage.

At last count Tuesday, Amazon.com, Buy.com and online auctioneer eBay had joined CNN...

United Parcel Service, Inc. announced today that it has formed a subsidiary that will perform back-end fulfillment functions for e-commerce companies and also help companies develop their supply chain management operations.

This direct foray into e-commerce by the world's largest package deli...

The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating online auctioneer eBay, Inc. to...

IBM announced yesterday that a six-month experiment with five major record labels has successfully emulated a traditional music store online. According to the company, the store allows music to be downloaded, but prevents illegal copying.

The experiment, known as AlbumDirect, involved music g...

The Chinese government is introducing new regulations that many analysts fear will put a chill on e-commerce in the world's most populous country.

According to lawyers and regulators, one set of rules will make it easier for the government to censor online content, while a separate set of ru...

Two former executives of iVillage, Inc. filed separate lawsuits against the popular Web site Friday, alleging that the company lured them from established companies with promises of lucrative compensation packages that never materialized.

"This is a case in which a company and its chief execut...

According to a new report by Forrester Research, many business-to-business Web sites ignore customer goals and fail to meet the basic requirements of a good user experience.

Forrester came to this conclusion after grading 30 business-to-business Web sites and finding that every one of them fa...

Former NFL, NBA and NHL greats John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky have announced that they will attempt to muscle into the competitive online sporting goods market by launching MVP.com next month.

The site will offer expert advice and insight from the world's top athletes, along w...