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Having cleared its final regulatory hurdle, automotive e-marketplace Covisint will begin pilot operations Friday, the company has announced ...

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) won a round Tuesday in its appeal of the antitrust judgment against it when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the software giant's appeal should first be heard by a lower appellate court ...

Legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress this week could make copyright battles over the way MP3.com offers music obsolete, meaning that the company would be free to build up its digital music database without having to pay the record labels any royalties ...

Texas officials have moved to prevent bankrupt e-tailer Living.com from selling the personal information of its customers, reaching a settlement agreement concurrent with a lawsuit filed Monday against the Amazon-backed company ...

Controversial Internet advertising firm DoubleClick, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK) announced Monday that it will acquire online market research firm @Plan (Nasdaq: APLN) in a deal worth approximately $120 million (US$). The companies said the deal will enable both firms to provide enhanced research and planning solutions tools to the online marketing community.

In an effort to halt the sale of firearms over the Internet, President Bill Clinton announced on Saturday the launch of the "eZ Check'' firearm license verification system on the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Web site ...

The U.S. government launched its FirstGov Web site Friday, providing a single point of entry to its more than 20,000 Web sites ...

Online grocer Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) announced Friday it will delay its scheduled expansion and a planned distribution center move in order to concentrate on obtaining profitability and integrating its systems with those of acquired rival HomeGrocer.com ...

A report released Thursday by Jupiter Research predicts that by 2005, more than 40 million U.S. households will pay at least part of their bills using online bill paying services ...

A 15 year-old boy from New Jersey who used the Internet to manipulate stock profits has agreed to pay back his ill-gotten gains of $285,000 (US$), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Wednesday. The Commission said it had never before brought charges against a minor ...

The number of unique visitors to online real estate sites this summer increased by 75 percent over the same period last year, according to a survey released Wednesday by market research firm The NPD Group and Internet audience measurement firm Media Metrix ...

During the first half of this year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) notified more than 4,500 Web sites in the United States that that they were breaking the law by illegally trafficking copyrighted material, according to statistics released Tuesday ...

Apple Computer Inc. has inked a licensing agreement with e-tail giant Amazon.com that will allow the computer company to use Amazon's patented 1-Click technology, as well as the "1-Click" trademark ...

General Motors (NYSE: GM) announced Monday that it is launching a pilot program designed to streamline the sale of vehicles over the Internet ...

E-tailers are scrambling to add customer-oriented features to their sites before the 2000 holiday season rolls around, according to a survey just released by Internet research firm IDC ...

Despite the popular conception that Europeans distrust e-commerce, a new survey by Jupiter Communications reveals that lower prices, not tighter security, would motivate European e-shoppers to spend more online ...

Furthering the trend toward e-tail consolidation, Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced late Wednesday that it will purchase online professional and technical bookseller Fatbrain.com (Nasdaq: FATB) in a deal worth roughly $64 million (US$) ...

Nearly two-thirds of Canadian retailers believe they are lagging behind their U.S. counterparts when it comes to e-commerce, according to IDC Canada's "National Online Retail Industry Study." ...

A study released Wednesday by online research firm Jupiter Communications says that kids and teens will only spend $4.9 billion (US$) online in 2005, but the research they do online will drive an estimated $21.4 billion in offline spending ...

Determined hackers could easily break into government computers and access information ranging from Social Security numbers to defense secrets, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) ...