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When traditional manufacturers first considered venturing into e-commerce, they did so with much trepidation -- and smartly so. They didn't want to roil the retailers on which they so intimately depend. The retailers, carefully watching the rise of direct sales over the Web, kept the pressure on man...

What a giant 40-foot purple gorilla has to do with magazines remains to be seen, but the name of a new online magazine subscription service is at least memorable for those who grew up watching cartoons in the '70s.

A recent International Data Corp. report, focused on Service Level Agreement (SLA) issues, found dissatisfaction among 59% of the IT professionals who responded.

The U.S. Department of Commerce wants electronic commerce Web sites to do a better job explaining to consumers who the companies are and reassuring them their online transactions are safe.

Leading online automobile dealer Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL) is increasing its reach in the $370 billion (US$) used car market with a new deal with top portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO). Autobytel will offer thousands of certified pre-owned vehicles for sale through Yahoo! Autos, a service that all...

Apparently not batting an eye at the swirling winds of controversy that whistle around the Web music site MP3.com, Cox Interactive Media, Inc. announced Wednesday that it would invest $45 million (US$) in the company and form a joint-venture to create music-related Web sites.

Oracle's Chief Executive Larry Ellison said last week that the company would cut its expenses by $1 billion (US$) over the next 18 months -- by increasing the sale of its software over the Internet.

In an effort to expand its network beyond the village's frontiers, iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL), one of the most popular online networks for women, is pushing the e-commerce buttons of expectant mothers.

With a recent revisitation by Melissa, new strains of the CIH Virus, and the appearance of the Tristate macro virus-- along with the dissemination of new trojan horse hacker tools-- reliable security solutions with ant-virus components might be just as critical as Y2K compliance solutions. According...

While the name of the Linux open-source operating system (OS) was being brought up in the Microsoft anti-trust trial -- "Linux is beating Windows" -- Red Hat, Inc. was busy announcing that it has filed a registration with the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (...

Online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC), which went public on Friday, suddenly has some major competition. On Monday, online investment bank E*OFFERING, which is backed by online broker E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP), launched its Web site.

Music stores have had them for years, and book-music-video-coffee-and-scones stores like Borders have also caught on. They are listening booths, a popular new way to hook audio buyers. So it makes sense that Amazon.com, whose Internet everything store competes with Borders and Borders.com, would fol...

As the U.S. Congress returned to work Monday, gun control legislation topped the House of Representatives' agenda. Several of the measures before the House could have an impact on a growing, though quiet, e-commerce sector: gun and ammo trafficking.

Over the last several weeks, Yahoo! Inc. has plowed millions into buying companies that will move e-commerce from PCs onto wireless devices. But some industry experts say the wireless market is a china egg that will never hatch.

When it comes to the U.S. government's approach to new businesses, the Internet is apparently no different from any other success story.