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Hilton Hotels Corp. unveiled a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace Thursday that will be powered by PurchasePro.com's B2B e-commerce engine ...

For the first quarter of 2000, U.S. business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sales were up 1.2 percent to $5.26 billion (US$) from the fourth quarter of 1999, according to figures published by the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce. However, despite the gains, e-commerce has yet to make a significant impact in overall retail sales ...

E*Trade and accounting giant Ernst & Young announced plans on Tuesday to make financial advice available to the brokerage firm's 2.6 million clients over the Internet ...

With the dust barely settled after last week's U.S. House vote to extend permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to China, many Internet technology firms and electronic commerce companies are looking to the Far East to determine their fortunes ...

E*Trade and accounting giant Ernst & Young announced plans on Tuesday to make financial advice available to the brokerage firm's 2.6 million clients over the Internet ...

E*Trade and accounting giant Ernst & Young announced plans on Tuesday to make financial advice available to the brokerage firm's 2.6 million clients over the Internet ...

IBM announced the formation of an online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace Tuesday involving ten powerful telecommunications and electronics companies ...

Although Internet car sales are not yet breaking any speed barriers, the race between manufacturers and dealers for domination of the marketplace is definitely on ...

A U.S. Congressional hearing Thursday revealed that government officials are growing increasingly frustrated by jurisdictional problems in the battle against illegal drug sales online, and have made little concrete progress in the effort ...

In an announcement Thursday that is sure to further unsettle agents and brokers who fear that their profession may soon be obsolete, Aetna, Inc., a $1 billion (US$) life insurance company that covers 10 million Americans, unveiled plans to sell group life insurance online ...

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dropped a bombshell in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust case Wednesday when he revealed that he is leaning toward splitting Microsoft Corp. into three parts, rather than the two proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) ...

In what could be the most aggressive move yet in the online travel war, Biztravel.com announced Tuesday that it will offer refunds to customers whose flights are late or cancelled ...

Despite months of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress remain split on a bill that would legalize digital signatures ...

In a last ditch effort to win its antitrust battle with the U.S. government, Microsoft filed a legal brief on Monday citing an earlier case in which the government said it would be against the public interest to break up the company ...

In a step that has sparked debate across all corners of the political landscape, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted Friday to ask Congress for the authority to impose stiffer regulations to protect consumer privacy online ...

Internet real estate company Homestore.com announced Friday that it has entered into an alliance with seven real estate industry players to streamline the process of purchasing a home online ...

A new report by research firm Jupiter Communications (Nasdaq: JPTR) predicts that the total dollars (US$) spent by consumers for online and Web-influenced offline purchases will exceed $235 billion this year and top $831 billion in 2005 ...

A healthy economy and increasing consumer confidence in online shopping combined to push Mother's Day sales to $190 million (US$), according to BizRate.com, an online collective of Internet retailers ...

Online fashion retailer Boo.com, a splashy symbol of 1999's e-commerce explosion, announced Thursday that it will liquidate its assets after recent failed attempts to get more cash from its backers or find new investors or buyers ...

In a blistering 73-page response filed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 19 states staunchly rejected Microsoft Corporation's proposal for self-imposed remedies to keep its company intact ...