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Internet gift delivery business CarePackages.com has capitalized upon an untapped e-commerce niche with its Halloween-themed ScarePackage.

As online auctions expand into veritable sideshows and novelty acts, BMW has placed its new sports utility vehicle on eBay in an effort to drive sales and build notoriety.

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), the Web's most-visited e-commerce site, reported a sharp rise in revenues when it announced its third-quarter results after the financial markets closed on Wednesday.

Open-source software solutions provider TurboLinux has entered into a strategic support-related alliance with industry titan Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ).

Although analysts are predicting a stellar holiday season in the world of e-commerce, e-tailers are nervously waiting to find out if their operation will make the grade or fall by the wayside.

Walgreen Co., the largest drugstore chain in the United States, announced yesterday that it is attempting to keep pace with the rapidly-developing Internet pharmacy market by launching an entirely revamped walgreens.com Web site.

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing a bill that would prevent cyber-squatters from holding a company's trademark hostage.

After a year of fits and starts with its Web strategy, Toys "R" Us has announced partnership agreements with LinkShare, Tutornet.com and employeesavings.com that the company hopes will resurrect its flagging e-commerce efforts.

Freeserve Plc, the United Kingdom's largest Internet Service Provider, announced today that it is joining an already-crowded field by launching an online auction site next month.

San Francisco, California-based MyWeb, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has forged an agreement with Chinese television channel TVSN China Ltd. to market the TV-based MyWeb Internet service and sell consumer goods advertised on TVSN.

In an effort to reverse its recent lackluster financial performance, computer services supplier Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS), announced yesterday that it will embark upon a three-year plan that will result in more than 50 percent of its sales coming from

According to a University of Texas study funded by Cisco Systems, Inc., e-commerce in the U.S. skyrocketed 127 percent from the first quarter of 1998 to the first quarter of 1999.

Netscape co-founder and recently departed AOL executive Marc Andreessen made his official return to the Web world yesterday by unveiling Loudcloud, Inc., a new venture comprised of what he calls a "dream team" of Net innovators.

As one of the pioneering Internet search engines, AltaVista is hoping that a combination of revamping its Web site and a $120 million (US$) ad campaign will be enough to catapult it out in front of Yahoo! and America Online.

Open-source software solutions developer Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) announced yesterday that it will work with Intel's recently-established Internet Service Provider (ISP) Program to foster development through product, service and support offerings.