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PC manufacturer Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) and UK telecommunications company Cable & Wireless (NYSE: CWP) announced today that they will join forces in a five-year, $500 million (US$) agreement to provide Internet business services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Surprise, surprise. Yet another e-commerce-related software company saw its stock take off on its first day of trading on Tuesday. This time, the big winner was Quintus (Nasdaq: QNTS), which develops software that helps online business manage customer interactions. Quintus priced its initial public ...

ABN Amro, the Netherlands' largest bank, announced today that it has moved into the China and Hong Kong markets by taking a 40 percent equity stake in the B2B e-commerce unit of General Electric.

Linux vendor SuSE announced this week that it has tapped outsource solutions provider Digital River, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRIV) to turn its online information portal into an e-commerce site.

Brick-and-mortar entertainment retailer Wherehouse Music and online entertainment superstore CheckOut.com announced a strategic alliance today that makes CheckOut.com the exclusive Internet partner for Wherehouse Music.

A new report released today by the Los Altos, California-based Internet Research Group shows that 25 million American households will be using the Internet to pay bills by the year 2003.

Given our litigious society, it was inevitable that the world of e-commerce would eventually find itself dragged into 'real world' courtrooms. And, lest anyone think that Microsoft is the only e-commerce-related company with legal woes, there is plenty of reason to believe that the floodgates are po...

According to Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500 report, the fastest-growing U.S. technology companies were all in the Internet and computer industries, with software developer Siebel Systems, Inc. leading the pack with a five-year growth of 782,978 percent.

E-commerce is clearly a media favorite at the moment, occupying significant space in most major newspapers and magazines, but most people are still shopping the old-fashioned way.

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary and Commerce Committees are gathering their troops for a showdown on the House floor over competing bills to control the use of online databases and other information stored on the Internet.

Ever since Microsoft was declared a monopoly by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson a couple of weeks ago, the remedy game has become the most popular pastime among legal experts and pundits.

Priceline.com, the name-your-price service pioneer, announced today that it has dramatically increased its access to the U.S. air travel ticket inventory with the addition of United Airlines, American Airlines and US Airways to its list of partners.

The stock of e-commerce software company Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) has been one of the year's top performers, and things could be getting even hotter for the stock. Shares of Ariba climbed 13-3/8 to 210 on Monday after the company announced a deal with enterprise commerce software company InterWorld (Nas...

Internet search engine Ask Jeeves, Inc. announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire closely-held online customer-support software maker Net Effect Systems, Inc. for about $288 million (US$) in stock.

E.piphany, Inc., a manufacturer of software that analyzes customers' buying habits, announced today that it has agreed to acquire RightPoint, Inc., for about $392 million (US$) in stock.