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Vitamins.com, the online supplier of vitamins and other nutritional supplements, announced today that it has raised $22.5 million (US$) in funding and will now be strategically allied with retail drugstore chain Phar-Mor. The round of financing was led by Acacia Venture Partners in San Francisco, wi...

According to a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), the "logistics chaos" of fulfilling online orders remains a serious liability to virtual retailers and the industry as a whole.

In an attempt to make Internet users redefine their conception of a 'search service,' ReturnMe.com has launched an online lost and found for items misplaced in the wide, wide real world.

When Bank One Corp. opened WingspanBank.com two months ago, it seemed to be just another foray into cyberspace by a major brick-and-mortar financial giant.

Online postage pioneer E-Stamp Corporation unveiled its service on the Microsoft Office Update Web site Thursday, just over two weeks after the U.S. Postal Service gave the go-ahead to sell stamps over the Internet.

Direct e-commerce company Xoom.com (Nasdaq: XMCM) announced today that it has acquired 100 percent of e-mail security company Private One, Inc. The move is an effort to strengthen MightyMail, the direct marketing e-mail solutions provider that it acquired in June. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Online brokerage firm Web Street Securities, Inc. has filed for a $50 million (US$) initial stock sale to raise money for expansion and the buildup of its online capacities.

On the verge of an initial public offering, Women.com announced Wednesday that it has licensed its content to a Japanese women's site in its first international venture.

America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) has had a busy week in the fashion business, adding two new groups of stores to its Shop@AOL online mall. The largest deal, with Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS), is a three-year joint marketing and commerce agreement that will put the Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy on AOL's ...

This week, a coalition of networking solution providers teamed up with Neal Nelson & Associates to produce a network stress test based on the increasingly popular Linux operating system (OS).

In an effort to close the technology gap between America's white and black citizens, U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley publicly pledged to address the issue at a national conference this fall. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, who is black and a Dartmouth graduate, joined Daley in the announcement.

TradeCast, a Houston, Texas-based online brokerage firm, announced Wednesday that it has received a $40 million (US$) investment from two Texas billionaires. The bankroll is expected to drive the company's attempt to become the Internet's dominant brokerage destination.

Last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair commissioned a blue-ribbon panel to examine why U.K. e-commerce companies lag miserably behind the United States, Germany and France.

In a move that will distribute "good toys" across its line of animated Internet properties, the Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG) announced Wednesday that it has acquired a controlling interest in toysmart.com.

Benchmark Capital announced today that it is pumping $15 million (US$) into Nordstrom.com. The venture is one of the Menlo Park, California firm's largest investments ever in a single company. "Benchmark is extremely excited to be working with Nordstrom.com, a company whose brand and customer servic...