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A French court ruled Monday that Web powerhouse Yahoo! has 90 days to block French residents from viewing auctions of Nazi memorabilia at its U.S.-based auctions site, or face fines of US$13,000 per day for each day it exceeds the deadline ...

One-third of the 131 dot-coms that have folded this year have done so in the past seven weeks, according to a study issued Thursday by Webmergers, a San Francisco, California-based mergers and acquisitions tracking company ...

BMG Entertainment, a division of Bertelsmann AG, announced Thursday it has partnered with content delivery service provider Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) and Virage, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRGE) to offer music videos for online syndication via streaming media. ...

Concerns over e-commerce, free trade, and the still-undecided U.S. presidential election highlighted the first day of the annual two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which began Wednesday in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei ...

Representing yet another setback for the Internet's largest e-tailer, Forrester Research announced Wednesday that Express.com, formerly DVDExpress, has edged out Amazon.com for the title of top online movie seller ...

The Amazon Marketplace, through which visitors to the e-commerce bellwether can sell used items to other customers, has sparked outrage among writers and publishers who feel that the blending of new and used books will be costly to their bottom line ...

The British government announced Monday a US$35.7 million program to create an elite team of Internet cops to crack down on cybercrime ...

Although the recent failure of several high profile e-tailers has cast doubt on the viability of e-commerce, data from two new reports shows that experienced shoppers are poised to lead a rebound in the coming months ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and e-commerce software company Mercantec announced Friday that they have formed a partnership to offer the first "pay-as-you-go" e-commerce package to Internet service providers (ISPs) ...

Hundreds of people -- including former James Bond actor Roger Moore -- had their secret Swiss bank account numbers, private addresses and money transfer details exposed to public online viewing because of a technical glitch at Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second largest bank ...

While Canadian e-commerce still has a long road to travel before catching up with the U.S., a study released Wednesday by the Canadian e-Business Opportunities Roundtable shows that the divide is steadily closing ...

Significantly more U.S. households are buying products on the Web, with the percentage jumping to 34 percent from 24 percent just a year ago, according to a survey released Wednesday by The Conference Board and NFO Research ...

Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce firms need to focus more on offering items that can be delivered to homes profitably, according to a report released Tuesday by AMR Research ...

Online health products store MotherNature.com (Nasdaq: MTHR) announced Tuesday that its board of directors has approved a plan to liquidate and dissolve the company, making it the third major e-tailer to shut down within two days ...

A trio of experts, led by "Father of the Internet" Vinton Cerf, told a French judge Monday that it is technologically possible for Internet powerhouse Yahoo! to block French users from U.S.-based online auctions of Nazi memorabilia ...

While European e-tailers are improving customer service, they still have a long road to travel when it comes to order fulfillment, according to a new study released by Andersen Consulting ...

Furniture e-tailer Furniture.com announced Monday that it has laid off 76 of its 88 employees and will be discontinuing operations ...

Beleaguered name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced Thursday that it is cutting 16 percent of its workforce and that its chief financial officer is departing ...

Auction fraud has the dubious honor of being the No. 1 online scam, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday ...

Even though more Americans than ever before will be buying online this holiday season, a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that many U.S. e-tailers will experience million dollar losses ...