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It is being reported that major PC makers are responding to Microsoft's anti-trust troubles by busily working behind the scenes to develop a new line of Windows-less models.

Online auction site eBay is reportedly taking part in a $22 million (US$) backing of business surplus trader TradeOut.com.

Autodesk, Inc., a maker of software for architects, is targeting the B2B construction industry with the launch of its new Web site.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. traditional financial services that fail to reinvent themselves quickly will not survive in a marketplace driven by Net-powered consumers.

In a vote of 423 to 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill late last week to prevent the imposition of sales taxes on global Internet sales.

As we wait for U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to announce his factual findings in the Microsoft antitrust case, it seems almost peculiar that Microsoft could be viewed as a monopoly. The whole concept of antitrust laws applying to Internet companies seems almost silly now that a year ha...

At a hearing on Internet standards yesterday, a handful of e-commerce watchers told the U.S. Senate Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee to let the market decide how and where global electronic commerce matures.

Name-your-price retailer priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) reported a more than 15-fold increase in third-quarter revenue and a net loss that beat analysts' estimates on Thursday, but its stock price still fell in early trading today.

What does it take for an offline company to successfully launch an e-commerce site?

After years of declining sales and business reversals, Levi Strauss & Co. announced today that it will cease selling products on its Levi's and Dockers Web sites after Christmas.

Knowledge retrieval solutions provider Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY) has entered into a strategic support-related alliance with Linux vendor Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) to boost Linux-based open-source software resources available to developers.

In sports, the superstars always seem to get the good press, while the solid utility players rarely get noticed.

According to published reports today, Japanese Internet investment company Softbank is planning to acquire an insolvent Japanese bank and turn it into the hub of an online financial services community.

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced today that it has acquired Entropic, Inc., a provider of software and toolkits for speech recognition, in an effort to integrate speech interaction technology into the Windows platform.

Domain registrar Network Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL) reported today that registrations shot up sharply in the third quarter, with international registrations helping to fuel a growth that is expected to continue well into the next century.