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Online brokerage E*Trade(NYSE: ET) announced Thursday that its board of directors has approved a plan, known in Wall Street parlance as a poison pill, aimed at thwarting a hostile takeover attempt ...

More than 20 million Europeans visited business and finance sites from their homes in May, according to research released Wednesday by Jupiter MMXI. ...

Music downloading from Napster has been suspended, at least temporarily, while the file-swapping site installs filters in order to comply with a court order prohibiting the unauthorized exchange of copyrighted music ...

Mirroring a move made by Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) two weeks ago, Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced Monday that it will offer free shipping for consumers purchasing two or more items ...

Any continued weakness in the European economy could have a major impact on the demand for information technology (IT) products and services over the next three years, according to a report released Monday by IDC ...

Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) and former online postage provider E-Stamp (Nasdaq: ESTM) announced Thursday that they have settled all pending litigation between the two companies ...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) inked a deal with Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) on Wednesday that will allow the Internet portal to deliver geographically targeted, local advertising to Web surfers ...

Established professional Internet services companies have the best opportunity to gain market share in a shifting environment -- despite the flexibility and creativity of their emerging and mid-level competitors -- according to research released Wednesday by IDC ...

Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) announced a major restructuring Wednesday ...

The number of dot-com job cuts fell for the second month in a row and reached the lowest point since November, according to a report released Tuesday by Chicago, Illinois-based executive search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). ...

Controversial song-swapping site Napster announced Tuesday that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM) and the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA). ...

Worldwide spending on Internet services reached almost US$22 billion in 2000, according to a report released Monday by IDC ...

In Part 1 of a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times began to dispel the seven deadly myths of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. ...

Several companies that used bogus "rebate" checks to con consumers into signing up for Internet yellow page listings agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that their operations were deceptive and violated federal law, the FTC said Friday ...

By many accounts, the future of e-commerce has less to do with selling CDs and books online to consumers, than it does with selling transformers and rivets via the Internet to other businesses ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcedThursday that it has sued another Internet pyramid scheme that conned thousands ofconsumers ...

T1msn, a joint venture of Microsoft and Mexican phone company Telmex, said Thursday it is acquiring Yupi Internet and launching YupiMSN, a Spanish-language portal. ...

Following in the footsteps of private industry, the U.S. government is turning to e-business to fuel its supply chain, improve its employment programs and dispose of its surplus goods. ...

Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Wednesday that they have inked a deal to create interactive multimedia broadcast centers for Travelocity customers ...

A new trial date in November has been set in the copyright infringement case brought by Tee Vee Tunes against MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP), after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case Tuesday, citing a mathematical error by the jury ...