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Following on the heels of its push to sell mortgage loans in Japan and the Republic of Korea, online mortgage lender E-Loan, Inc. (Nasdaq: EELN) announced Thursday that it's entering into a joint-venture with an Internet investment fund to provide loans to consumers in the UK, Australia and New Zeal...

In an effort to add yet another reason for online consumers to start their Web surfing at the popular portal, Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) is putting its money behind what it believes is the bank of the future.

EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZ) this week announced the availability of its Personal Internet Appliance (PIA), a sub-$200 (US$) Linux-based computer system aimed at the consumer who may not yet be an experienced Internet user.

After months of public testing, enterprise reporting, management and analysis firm Web Trends Corporation (Nasdaq: WEBT) unveiled its new portal site for Internet professionals Wednesday.

Online phone book GTE SuperPages.com is putting together an online directory of e-commerce sites, aimed at providing shoppers with a single place to find out where on the net their coveted goods reside.

Like movie stars and Hollywood titans, Wall Street mavericks and Fleet Street publishers, online commerce companies are catching on to the "official book" craze.

Hailed by capitalists as one of the few federal government agencies that operates like a private sector company, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is taking steps to keep up that image via the Internet.

A greater than expected number of small and local businesses have turned to the Internet to sell their products and services -- causing some members of the traditional media to fear for the worst.

At least one company appears to have been listening when Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) laid out a plan last week to force online advertisers to improve their privacy measures.

America Online (NYSE: AOL) is becoming a little more fashionable and a little richer.

U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley recently stated that "if people don't feel safe and secure, they will not use the Internet." A recent Rockbridge Associates report indicated that consumers are indeed reluctant to embrace e-commerce, based in part on mistrust for online transactions. Consequentl...

With a new service from DealTime.com, consumers looking for a good deal on a specific product no longer have to scour the Web themselves -- DealTime.com will do it for them. The Internet search service finds online offers for products based on the customer's preferences for that product, such as man...

Intel Corp.'s CEO Craig Barrett told reporters in Amsterdam last week that current forecasts projecting the growth of e-commerce were too low.

For about a week, Wall Street had been buzzing about a possible deal between Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) and computer manufacturer Compaq (Nasdaq: CPQ). The companies made it official today.

Caldera Systems, Inc. and IBM have announced a joint development, marketing and support agreement to promote the Linux operating system (OS).