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Internet powerhouse Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced late Thursday that its board of directors has adopted a stockholder rights plan to discourage a hostile takeover attempt ...

Dot-com chief executive officers are departing their companies at a rate of almost one per day, according to a report released Thursday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...

Alternative payment methods, such as prepaid value cards and Web currency, are being used online, but according to analysts and merchants alike, they'll never dethrone the king of the dot-com world: the credit card ...

Georgia and Texas are among the U.S. states grappling with the issue of Internet alcohol sales, after a federal law went into effect last month giving states more control over alcoholic shipments to consumers in their states ...

Hours after firing half its staff Wednesday, beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) announced it had filed a US$45 million breach of contract lawsuit against golf's PGA Tour. ...

Beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) announced Wednesday that it is eliminating approximately 125 positions -- more than half of its 230-person staff -- in a bid to conserve cash ...

Long-struggling Internet retailer eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS) announced Monday that it will file for protection under U.S. bankruptcy law within the next five to 10 days ...

Sabre Holding Corporation (NYSE: TSG) rolled out a point-of-sale Web portal for travel agencies Tuesday that integrates Sabre's database of travel services with Internet content ...

Despite the ongoing dot-com shakeout, Web merchants who follow a five-part plan to satisfy customers have a chance to succeed and reach profitability, according to a report released Monday by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) ...

After a week of being dogged in the press over its declining number of auction listings, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) released numbers Thursday indicating that remaining users now have a better chance of selling their merchandise ...

Despite the shakeout that has led to the closure of Web sites selling such items as furniture, garden supplies and pet food, there is one e-tail sector that is on fire: Web-based tobacco sales ...

The United Kingdom and Canada digitally signed a pact Thursday promising to cooperate on developing e-commerce and e-government initiatives ...

The Internet is fast becoming a mecca for drug traffickers who use it to unlawfully peddle controlled substances, the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said Wednesday in its annual report ...

In a bid to increase its international market share, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced late Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to purchase European online auctioneer iBazar S.A. in an all-stock deal estimated to be worth up to US$112 million ...

Home delivery of groceries and other sundries ordered online will endure, according to industry observers, but some leading Internet providers might not, unless they can adapt to marketplace demands and find offline partnerships to become profitable ...

Online scam artists contributed to a 50 percent increase in credit card fraud in the European Union (EU) last year, ringing up US$553 million in illegal transactions, according to numbers released by the European Commission (EC) on Monday ...

Over the past few months, Yahoo! has been swiftly moving to diversify its revenue streams and decrease its dependence on online advertising. ...

Despite posting a greater-than-expected fourth-quarter 2000 loss on Thursday, travel services e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) secured investments totaling US$50 million from two Asian firms and predicted it would have a pro forma operating profit during the second quarter of 2001 ...

Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) scored a legal victory over rival e-tailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. lifted a preliminary injunction that had barred Barnesandnoble.com from using one-click Web shopping technology ...

Webvan Group (Nasdaq: WBVN) will continue its fight for survival in the unforgiving online grocery business without its original driver. ...