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Earlier this week, privacy advocates testified before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and asked it to stop Web sites from tracking and compiling the visits of their users.

When giant e-tailer Amazon.com announced Monday that it would be hawking everything from software to home improvement items, its stock shot up more than $13 (US$) a share, closing at $78.

Shares of United Parcel Service, Inc. skyrocketed as much as 40 percent in the company's first day of trading today, raising $5.47 billion (US$) in the largest initial stock sale in history.

European online auctioneer QXL.com PLC announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with AOL Germany to become the premium partner of the online service provider.

Former Microsoft executive Karl Jacob has launched a Web site that allows people to hold private conversations via the telephone without having to share their telephone numbers.

In an intensifying battle against specialized search services, eBay, Inc. moved last Friday to deny AuctionWatch.com access to its site.

Concentric Network Corp. announced today that it will begin offering Office 2000 software via the Internet in early 2000.

Prodigy Communications Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy out rival FlashNet Communications for stock valued at about $120 million (US$).

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., AOL and Yahoo! have been slow to cash in on instant messaging as a corporate collaboration tool.

OpenAuto.com announced the launch today of an online marketplace that allows car buyers to use the anonymity of the Internet to research and price cars and strengthen their bargaining position.

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., luxury brick-and-mortar retailers such as Neiman Marcus are approaching e-commerce with a bargain basement mentality.

According to a new study by Forrester Research, Inc., a shift in advertising dollars to the Internet will create a $27 billion (US$) shortfall in traditional media spending by 2004.

Online cosmetics Web site gloss.com's 35-year-old co-founder Sarah Kugelman has been moving at warp speed for months.

Earlier this week, when RealNetworks, Inc. admitted that its software had been secretly gathering and transmitting personal information about consumers' listening habits, the company gave privacy advocates a big bone to chew on.

Last Friday, when U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson decided to delay the first phase of his verdict in the Microsoft antitrust case, I wondered how the hiatus affected the personal comfort level of one William F. Gates III.

Toys "R" Us, Inc. announced yesterday that it has signed a two-year agreement with America Online that will give it anchor placement in the Toys department of the Kids, Toys and Babies category in the new Shop@AOL.

E-Stamp Corp. and Intuit, Inc. announced today that they have joined forces to provide Internet postage to the more than two million small businesses that use Intuit's accounting software.

Last Friday, when shares of Internet technology company Akamai skyrocketed 450 percent in its Wall Street debut, the event confirmed what many industry observers already knew.

It is being reported that major PC makers are responding to Microsoft's anti-trust troubles by busily working behind the scenes to develop a new line of Windows-less models.

Autodesk, Inc., a maker of software for architects, is targeting the B2B construction industry with the launch of its new Web site.