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Giant cinema chain Cinemark USA, Inc., which specializes in stadium-seating and IMAX theaters, announced Tuesday that it will expand selling tickets via the Internet to 14 Dallas, Texas-area theaters in the next few weeks.

Lineo, Inc., formerly known as Caldera Thin Clients, has made a significant move on the burgeoning market for Internet access in the Asia-Pacific region by announcing strategic relationships with several Taiwan-based embedded system manufacturers.

Stung by industry-wide criticism over revelations that it compiled and sold user information without proper disclosures, Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK) launched a public relations counterattack Monday with what it claims is "one of the largest public service campaigns in...

As the investigation into last week's denial-of-service (DoS) hacker attacks narrows its focus today, U.S. President Bill Clinton is expected to propose a new Internet security center at a meeting with high-tech executives.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and National Association of Attorneys General have banded together with other government agencies to aggressively seek out and prosecute perpetrators of online auction fraud.

Encouraging online shopping leads to declining loyalty, fewer referrals and lower profits as users negotiate Web sites that "would give Kafka pause," according to a report conducted by a Canadian research firm.

America Online, Inc. has denied a claim by well-respected San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor that it is backing off its promise to support open access to broadband cable systems.

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. announced a $2.3 billion (US$) initiative Monday that will target electronic commerce and Internet content businesses.

Last Friday, shares of online bookseller Fatbrain.com lost one-third of their value when three brokerage firms downgraded their investment rating on the stock.

Online auto vendor Autobytel (Nasdaq: ABTL) announced today that it is forming a new venture to sell cars in Australia with a variety of well-known auto industry partners.

The Cleo Products Group, an Interface Systems (Nasdaq: INTF) company that provides business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce communications tools, has joined the growing corporate migration to Linux by adding support for the open-source platform to its Cleo 3780Plus product.

Despite the recent barrage of hacker attacks on high profile e-commerce sites, online shoppers have continued to buy products and services -- albeit more cautiously -- over the Internet.

Online toy giant eToys, Inc. disclosed last week that it has become the subject of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into its business practices.

U.S. investigators and computer security experts have reportedly narrowed their search for the perpetrators of last week's denial-of-service (DoS) hacker attacks against some of the Internet's most popular Web sites down to at least two possible suspects.

When giant e-tailer Amazon.com reported its fourth quarter earnings earlier this month, the company reignited an old debate over whether pure-play Internet e-tailers are fundamentally capable of turning a profit.