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According to data from Framingham, Massachusetts-based research firm IDC, online jewelry sales will grow from $77 million (US$) in 1999 to over $1 billion in 2004 and outpace the growth of consumer e-commerce as a whole ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced Wednesday that it is investing over $1 billion (US$) to develop and promote its core Internet middleware technology, the IBM WebSphere software platform ...

Despite the recent decline in venture capital funding for Internet companies, North American e-tail sales will exceed $29.3 billion (US$) in 2000, according to new research from Gartner Group ...

The "Global New E-Economy Index," a cyber atlas that maps the technological vitality of 47 nations based on five digital economy factors, was published Tuesday by IT research firm Meta Group ...

According to data from IT research firm IDC, U.S. sales of pharmaceutical, health, and beauty products over the Internet will boom from less than $250 million (US$) in 1999 to more than $18 billion in 2004 ...

European Web shoppers will spend more money online for groceries than their American counterparts by 2003, according to a study released Monday by Forrester Research ...

Clearing the way for a mega-merger that could radically change the high-tech landscape, stockholders of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and America Online (NYSE: AOL) voted overwhelmingly in favor of the pending deal Friday at separate shareholder meetings ...

Over 30 leading technology companies, privacy advocates, and other organizations gathered in New York City Wednesday to demonstrate implementations of a new privacy platform from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ...

Japan's largest convenience store, Seven-Eleven Japan Co Ltd, announced Thursday that it will launch an e-commerce Web site called 7dream.com on July 1st ...

New research by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research shows that American millionaires use the Internet more than their less affluent neighbors and are more likely to purchase just about anything online ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced Tuesday that they are teaming with San Francisco, California-based Digital Island to build a streaming video network ...

Significantly changing the lay of the land for AOL Time Warner, Vivendi, Seagram and Canal+ have agreed to merge in a $34 billion (US$) all-stock deal ...

A report released Monday projects that online global advertising will swell from $4.3 billion (US$) last year to $28 billion by 2005, but that many companies are unprepared to take advantage of the surge ...

Speaking before the American Antitrust Institute Conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Robert Pitofsky said that government enforcement of antitrust laws in the high-tech sector is critical to continued economic growth ...

In what is being labeled as the largest securities fraud crackdown ever undertaken, U.S. federal authorities have charged members of organized crime families and others in a wide-ranging scheme that included fraudulently promoting stocks on Web sites and falsely touting companies as "dot-coms." ...

Pets.com (Nasdaq: IPET) announced Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire key assets and strategic relationships of privately held competitor Petstore.com ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked a federal court judge Monday to issue an injunction to prevent music swap site Napster from "facilitating or assisting others in the copying, downloading, uploading, transmission or distribution of copyrighted musical works." ...

A new study released Monday by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) shows that Canadians actively browse e-commerce Web sites but are reluctant to spend money online ...

eToys (Nasdaq:ETYS) announced Monday that it has purchased selected assets of eParties American, an online party planning and supplies site, for $1.6 million (US$) in eToys common stock ...

MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Friday that it has reached separate settlements in its copyright infringement disputes with Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group. The settlements will allow music from the labels to stay on the online music provider's site ...