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Online brokers are the focal point of a 95-page report that was just issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

America Online announced today that Buenos Aires-based financial services Web site LatinStocks.com has signed an agreement to provide the giant online service provider with content and online stock trading.

Online bookseller Alibris has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $250,000 (US$) fine in order to retire federal charges that it intercepted Amazon.com internal e-mails and possessed unauthorized password files.

When the federal judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial appointed Chief Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois, to mediate talks aimed at resolving the case, many experts were caught by surprise.

America Online and interactive entertainment software company Electronic Arts announced a five-year strategic alliance today to create and deliver online games and interactive entertainment content for all AOL properties.

Last week, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that local telephone companies would be required to share their wires with rival data providers, the telephone company CEOs let out a collective wail.

In an effort to eliminate confusion over its strategic path, Excite@Home Corp. will establish a tracking stock for its Internet media assets.

Online computer e-tailer egghead.com announced today that its shareholders have approved a $400 million (US$) merger with auction and surplus site Onsale, Inc.

Tradition met technology today as Amazon.com and Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. launched sothebys.amazon.com, a new online auction site that is jointly backed by the international art auctioneer and the top U.S. e-tailer.

Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. all but conceded defeat in its much-publicized instant messaging battle with America Online by announcing that it will no longer attempt to make its IM software communicate with AOL's.

According to a new report by research firm Datamonitor, e-tailers that fail to utilize Web-enabled live customer service operations could lose $3.2 billion (US$) in sales this holiday season.

Toys "R" Us has a problem. Its Web site, which has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since the company's Internet division was formed, has been overwhelmed with traffic.

A new report released today by the Los Altos, California-based Internet Research Group shows that 25 million American households will be using the Internet to pay bills by the year 2003.

Ever since Microsoft was declared a monopoly by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson a couple of weeks ago, the remedy game has become the most popular pastime among legal experts and pundits.

E.piphany, Inc., a manufacturer of software that analyzes customers' buying habits, announced today that it has agreed to acquire RightPoint, Inc., for about $392 million (US$) in stock.

If the actions of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates are any indication as to whether there is life after being declared a monopoly by U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the answer is an emphatic "yes."

A new report from Forrester Research, Inc. is projecting that WingspanBank.com, the six month-old Internet banking venture of Bank One Corp. (NYSE: ONE), is about to stall.

For decades, Allstate Corp. has reminded its policyholders that they are in good hands with their Allstate agents.

Leading online computer seller Dell Computer Corp. announced today that it has launched a global redesign of its Web site, adding new features aimed at making interactions easier and more tailored to individual customers' needs.

In an apparent attempt to counter America Online's recent brick-and-mortar alliances, Microsoft announced yesterday that it has signed a five-year pact with Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack to deliver online service to consumers through the chain's 7,000 outlets.