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Warner Bros. has introduced a new fashion-oriented Web site, The Fashion Maven, which supposedly allows consumers to purchase articles of clothing online that were recently worn by one of the entertainment giant's television or movie characters.

A six-year subscriber of America Online (NYSE: AOL) has won $1 million (US$) in a marketing giveaway by the Virginia-based powerhouse and credit card giant Visa U.S.A.

This week, a long-overdue precedent was set when the operator of a sports gambling Web site was convicted in the first case of its kind to go to trial.

Software security solutions provider Diversinet Corp. (Nasdaq: DVNT) announced Tuesday that it is extending support of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for creating wireless e-commerce applications to the Linux open-source platform.

Tripwire, Inc., a provider of network security solutions, has announced that it will release the source code for its Linux-based e-commerce software product.

U.S. President Bill Clinton is apparently pushing governors to reach a compromise position on Internet taxation that would link a moratorium on taxation with a plan for states to simplify their sales tax structures.

Having generated one quarter of its January passenger revenues from online sales, Southwest Airlines projected Monday that its 2000 e-commerce revenues will top $1 billion (US$).

Venerable American retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced Monday that it will join with $50 billion (US$) French retailer Carrefour and software giant Oracle Corp. to form a global business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for the retail industry.

In a move that could potentially have a significant impact on Internet Service Provider (ISP) competition in the U.S., America Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: AOL) and Time Warner, Inc. (NYSE: TWX) announced a "memorandum of understanding" Tuesday stating that AOL will not be the exclusive ISP on Time Warner'...

Legend has it that Microsoft's Bill Gates looked AOL CEO Steve Case in the eye seven years ago and spread the following dose of sunshine: "I can buy 20 percent of you or I can buy all of you. Or I can go into this business myself and bury you."

So the storefront is open, the banner is flashing, the products are ready, but the cart is still empty. What to do? How do you get customers to your site? Don't despair. There are many ways to drive eyeballs to your new e-commerce site.

Open-source based software solutions provider TurboLinux on Tuesday announced that its server product has been deployed, along with a cluster of IBM Netfinity 5000 Servers, to power one of Japan's largest consumer e-commerce Web sites.

Software solutions developer Corel Corp. (Nasdaq: CORL) has announced a deal to bundle its distribution of the Linux operating system with hardware solutions produced by EBIZ Enterprises (OTC BB: EBIZ).

A number of software company owners, corporate executives and other key players in the technology landscape strongly encouraged U.S. governors to keep better pace with the new economy and electronic commerce at a weekend meeting of the National Governors' Association (NGA) in Washington, D.C.

As the world's most populous country awaits entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Chinese government's Internet arm unveiled the first government-sanctioned trading portal, ChinaTradeWorld.com, to make the country's factory and farm products available to outside buyers.