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Spurred on by the ease of Internet shopping, the online market for Valentine's Day goods and services in 2001 will have increased by more than 16 million users in North America compared to a year ago, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group ...

Overstock.com, which has already carved a niche in cyberspace for its dealings in the assets of dead dot-coms, threw its hat into the online travel market Tuesday ...

Despite an estimated plunge of more than 80 percent in auction listings since Yahoo! started charging users a listing fee, the Internet giant maintains that the effects of the change have been positive ...

Beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) announced Tuesday that chief executive officer and chairman of the board Gregory Hawkins and chief financial officer Mitch Hill had resigned for unspecified reasons ...

Although the Internet created cyberspace, which does not exist in a physical sense, the web is entering the real world in a new way ...

Fewer than 100 of the 500 European business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces currently in existence will survive over the coming years, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter MMXI Europe ...

Another legal volley was fired Thursday in the international battle over Yahoo! auctions of Nazi memorabilia. The France-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) has filed a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit that Yahoo! filed in a U.S. court in December contesting a French court's order ...

The European Commission (EC) published a plan on Friday aimed at developing e-commerce in the financial services sector. ...

A dramatic increase in the amount of corporate travel bookings made through custom Web-based systems is expected to cut deeply into the sales made by traditional travel agencies -- unless those agencies develop new services to remain competitive -- according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Research ...

Japan accounted for nearly 70 percent of e-commerce in the Asian Pacific region in 2000, according to a study released Wednesday by research firm eMarketer ...

A research note issued by a Lehman Brothers analyst Tuesday questioning the financial stability of Amazon.com drew a sharp retort from the Seattle, Washington-based e-tailer ...

Internet postage company Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) announced Wednesday that it is cutting its workforce by 50 percent, or approximately 150 jobs ...

More signs came Monday that the days of free online music are drawing to a close ...

British retail giant John Lewis Partnership said Tuesday that it has purchased the UK division of struggling U.S. e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) ...

In contrast to e-marketplaces in the U.S., which are largely funded by homegrown investors, most of the funding for Latin American business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces is coming from international sources, according to a new report from Jupiter Research ...

In yet another example of consolidation in the online auto market, MSN Carpoint and AutoNation announced Friday that they have signed a deal that makes AutoNation the primary distributor of the car sales leads generated by Carpoint. ...

Bertelsmann AG announced Wednesday that it is eliminating 55 jobs at subsidiary CDNow, in a move that will eliminate the entire advertising sales function at the online music site ...

The recent policy change by eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) that will give the auction giant more control over online contacts between eBay users was greeted with both optimism and anger in the Web auction community ...

In a bid to refocus on its core travel business, Priceline(Nasdaq: PCLN) announced Wednesday that it had enhanced its service to offer customers more convenient itineraries and shorter connection times between flights. ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Tuesday that the 2000 holiday shopping season "seems to have gone more smoothly for consumers" than it did in 1999 ...