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The whole world will be watching today as lawyers for Microsoft Corp. and the government resume talks with a federal appeals judge in Chicago, Illinois.

Downloadable music seller EMusic.com (Nasdaq: EMUS) announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held music destination site Tunes.com, whose properties include RollingStone.com and DownBeatJazz.com.

Spanish-language e-tailer Espanol.com announced today that it is making bilingual customer service available to its users in time for the holiday season.

In a move designed to strengthen its position as a major Internet player, NBC has launched NBC Internet, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBCI) as a publicly traded company.

Online consumer resource OnlineChoice.com's ElectricityChoice.com subsidiary launched a new e-commerce service in Pennsylvania yesterday that will attempt to use the power of numbers to lower the cost of electrical power to a pool of more than 4,000 registered residential customers.

It's official: E-tailers had a stellar holiday weekend, with brisk sales and vigorous activity fueled by savvy shoppers who have been doing their homework. The consumer is now well-equipped to sidestep inefficient or rigid e-tailers and carve out the best online deals with a maximum of convenience. ...

By all accounts, e-tailers are poised to experience the first of many monster holiday seasons and sell more goods and services online than anyone would have ever thought possible

UK-based entertainment and shopping guide Virgin Net announced today that it has selected upstart search engine Google to provide search services for its Web site.

According to a new study by Benchmarking Partners, a majority of leaders of consumer and industrial market companies believe that e-commerce is critical to their ongoing success but do not have funded strategies or a decision maker in place.

While the results of International Data Corporation's (IDC) Project Atlas, a worldwide survey of Internet usage, confirm that the Internet and e-commerce are now truly a global phenomenon, conventional views about different countries' usage are often surprisingly off the mark.

E-commerce infrastructure companies are the stars of Wall Street right now, with stocks that most people have never heard of rising to hard-to-believe heights.

According to a new study by research firm Jupiter Communications, Inc., more consumers than ever plan to shop online this holiday season, but poor customer service could turn those eager spenders off.

Originally a division of Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada, Entrust Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) spun off as a separate international provider of electronic security solutions in December of 1996.

Riding a wave of optimism after China's recent agreement with U.S. officials to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO), China.com (Nasdaq: CHINA) announced today that it has entered into a joint venture and acquired majority stakes in three companies.

Online brokers are the focal point of a 95-page report that was just issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).