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The Web won't be much of a Web anymoreif governments and corporations are allowed to continueon their destructive path, dictating when andhow people can insert links to other siteswhen creating their own Internet content ...

There is an age-old theory that stock brokerages do not need to worry about how the market is doing, because they get paid on commission whether the order is a buy or a sell. However, the rise and fall of the New Economy has challenged that assumption ...

Not only has there been a dramatic drop in new accounts opened at online brokerages, but trading volumes are way down as well. Major players are cutting staff and reporting losses ...

The venture capitalists who got blindsided when the dot-com bubble burst lost a whole lot of money -- real money, to be sure -- from staggering losses at companies such as Priceline and Webvan, to complete wipeouts like eToys and Pets.com. ...

Despite years of success at the business of matchmaking, real-world dating services are in a losing battle with the Web for a couple of reasons. Well, actually three reasons. Wait, make that four or five or six reasons ...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Friday that it is removing pornographic material from its shopping, auction and classified sections, namely adult-related videos and DVDs being sold by merchants on the giant portal. ...

Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) is slashing its workforce yet again. ...

Homes.com announced Wednesday that it is laying off approximately 150 employees in a bid to preserve cash and move toward positive cash flow from operations. ...

Alternative payment methods, such as prepaid value cards and Web currency, are being used online, but according to analysts and merchants alike, they'll never dethrone the king of the dot-com world: the credit card ...

Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said Wednesday that effective March 1st, they will no longer pay commissions on Internet ticket sales in the United States and Canada. ...

Analysts disagree on whether Tuesday's downbeat economic news, including a reported drop in consumer confidence to its lowest level in nearly five years, is likely to drag down e-commerce spending levels ...

Oasis, a consortium including IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, announced Thursday that it will start to integrate a competing e-commerce standard being developed by Microsoft ...

Film fans are finding that buying their movie tickets via the Internet is an increasingly attractive option, especially when the movie is as red-hot as box office hit "Hannibal." ...

This weekend is your virtual last chance to use the Web to send chocolates in time for Valentine's Day. ...

E-commerce and tech layoffs continue to mount, hitting a record number of 44,851 for the month of January, according to a report released Tuesday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...

Talk about losing the big game ...

eBaywent to bed on December 31st flush with holiday success, and woke up to a New Year full of snags. ...

Does the decision by Internet giant Yahoo! to start charging its users auction listing fees mark the beginning of the end for free Internet services and content? ...

The recent service outages at Amazon.com, eBay, and other e-commerce sites frustrated shoppers, lowered company revenues and raised media eyebrows. For e-commerce firms, downtimes are the worst of times ...

Troubled toy e-tailer eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS) moved to the dot-com critical list Thursday, announcing that approximately 70 percent of the company's 1,000 employees have been informed that their jobs are being eliminated ...