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Internet liquidator Overstock.com on Tuesday launched a new business-to-business (B2B) site, OverstockB2B.com, aimed at helping small business owners buy liquidated merchandise at deep discounts ...

In e-commerce today, one company is clearly the king of the online auction hill. And according to experts, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for rivals to stage a coup d'eBay ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday that it has filed charges against an Internet company which, by promising to pay customer Internet access fees, allegedly conned consumers into paying membership charges and turning over personal information ...

Consumers spent US$3.9 billion online in May -- a 9 percent decrease from the $4.3 billion racked up in Internet sales in April -- according to data released Monday by Forrester Research and Greenfield Online. ...

Buying a piece of fame online is easy because thousands of online celebrity auctions fill the pages of such Web action sites as Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) every day. ...

Stricter laws are needed to protect Internet auction users from spammers who harvest e-mail addresses from auction sites, an eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) executive told U.S. lawmakers at a House subcommittee on crime hearing on cybercrime Thursday ...

Priceline.com(Nasdaq: PCLN) has been working hard to improve its customer service andfind the right product mix, but analysts still disagree about whetherthe "name-your-own-price" e-tailer has a business model that will succeed ...

Although online credit card fraud is not a myth, its frequency has been greatly exaggerated, according to a survey released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Cybercrime fighters are scheduled to continue lobbying U.S. Congress on Thursday for more money and power to combat hackers, con artists and other cyber crooks ...

While U.S. lawmakers have failed to stop the flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail-- otherwise known as spam -- clogging e-mail boxes across the nation, many savvy netizens are turning to SpamCop.net, a tool that helps consumers filter out spam and report spammers to their Internet service providers (ISPs). ...

Electronics e-tailer X10.com leapfrogged over Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) in the May rankings of the Top 50 most visited Web sites, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Duet, the online music venture backed by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (UMG), has been renamed Pressplay, the companies said Monday ...

The European Commission (EC) is investigating potential anti-competitive aspects of two major new online music ventures, Duet and MusicNet, an EC official said Monday ...

Broadband Internet service provider Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) announced Monday that it has raised US$100 million through the sale of five-year convertible secured notes ...

Thursday, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that had struck down the state's anti-spam law ...

Automakers hoping to leverage the power of the Internet to generate new car sales need to concentrate less on online selling and more on building brand awareness, according to a report released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

In a world where Internet-only players are flying off the screen at an alarming pace, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is likely to succeed where other pure-plays have failed, analysts from Jupiter Media Metrix told the E-Commerce Times. ...

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced Wednesday that it has signed a multiyear marketing agreement with Spanish Internet giant Terra Lycos (Nasdaq: TRLY) ...

Because WhatsHotNow.com (WHN) abruptly closed its e-commerce services division, the e-tail operations of a number of TV Web sites, including Comedy Central, NBC and TV Guide, have had to shut down this week ...

American Express (NYSE: AXP) launched a new company Tuesday, dubbed Workadia, which is aimed at capturing a share of the corporate portal market. ...