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According to industry analyst Zona Research, Inc., Yahoo! Inc.'s new online bill-paying service has the potential to change the e-commerce landscape forever ...

Last week, a Canadian programmer stumbled upon an obscure digital "signing key" labeled "NSA Key" in the latest version of Microsoft's NT software. The discovery led him to accuse Microsoft of putting in a secret "back door" that allows the National Security Agency to snoop into the files of unsuspecting PC users ...

Internet portal Lycos, Inc. announced today that it has agreed to buy Quote.com, Inc. for $78.3 (US$) million, plus the assumption of the privately held company's stock option plan ...

Healthcare information Web site Mediconsult.com has agreed to buy privately held Physicians Online for stock valued at about $165 (US$) million and the assumption of $13.5 million in debt ...

The British Broadcasting Corp. created a roar of protests last week when it launched its free Internet service known as www.freebeeb.net ...

Healthcare information portal AmericasDoctor.com is scheduled to make its debut on Wall Street this week ...

According to industry analyst Forrester Research, Inc., leading Web strategists consider European e-commerce sites to be a good value and easy to use, but U.S. sites still remain the international benchmark of excellence ...

Six of the biggest Internet companies joined forces last week to try and persuade governments throughout the world to make the laws regulating e-commerce more uniform ...

Netship founder and chief executive officer David G. Campbell offers a simple but not easy success formula for anyone contemplating entering the e-commerce arena ...

Reactions to Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s purchase of office productivity software maker Star Division Corp. have been decidedly mixed. While some industry observers see the move simply as an attempt to gain a toehold in the desktop office productivity market, others see it as a direct challenge to the Microsoft juggernaut ...

While the assets that online brokerage firms manage will soar to a hefty $3 trillion (US$) by 2003, the industry continues to lag far behind other e-commerce players in delivering prompt service to its customers ...

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission came a step closer to allowing federal law-enforcement agencies to use the Internet to tap into your e-mail and voice messages. By giving the high-tech industry another year to come up with a legal way to monitor the packet-mode communications used for the Internet, the FCC seems ready to widen the government's investigative power in much the same way it did for telecommunications...

While younger online shoppers crisscross the Web in search of the perfect deal, surfing seniors are quietly making purchases ...

Wall Street pundits are fingering the uncertainty of interest rates as the main culprit behind the less-than-glamorous debut of many initial public offerings in August ...

Internet toy marketer eToys, Inc. announced today that it will soon expand internationally by launching a Web site in the United Kingdom ...

When Joseph Galli stunned Wall Street by becoming Amazon.com, Inc.'s president and chief executive officer instead of taking the helm of PepsiCo, Inc., there was much speculation about what kind of package had made him change his mind ...

America Online, Inc. and PC retailer CompUSA, Inc. have forged a two-year alliance to sell a new line of personal computers pre-loaded with AOL and CompuServe software. AOL has about 20 million subscribers, and CompUSA is the largest PC retailer in the United States ...

Privately held media company Landmark Communications, Inc. announced today that it will pump $9 million (US$) into Burlington, Massachusetts-based Bidder's Edge, Inc. Bidder's Edge, a portal which allows its users to search many different auction sites at once, will use the money to expand its operations by hiring additional staff, developing new marketing programs and building up its capability to cover the growing number of online auctions...

Internet privacy, the issue that just won't seem to go away, is back and heating up again. However, while the rhetoric may be flying, the consumer isn't reaping any real benefits. So far, it seems that re-definitions of "privacy" and related concepts are only giving cover to giant corporations who don't want outsiders peering at them through the knothole in the fence...

When Bank One Corp. opened WingspanBank.com two months ago, it seemed to be just another foray into cyberspace by a major brick-and-mortar financial giant ...