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The issue of Internet privacy seemed to dominate much of the e-commerce terrain last week as President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee waded knee-deep into the fray ...

Speaking at a forum held by the Aspen Institute in San Jose, California, U.S. President Bill Clinton sternly warned high-tech industry leaders Friday that they must quickly adopt minimum privacy standards or have the government do it for them ...

Recently, it has been reported that Russia is on the verge of cashing in on a growing boom in Internet use and e-commerce, if only -- we are told -- authorities would seize the opportunity and do away with bureaucratic hurdles ...

Yesterday, both U.S. Democratic and Republican Senators expressed serious reservations about the planned merger between media giants America Online, Inc. and Time Warner, Inc ...

Arthur Andersen's Real Estate and Hospitality Services Group and real estate consulting firm the Rosen Consulting Group released a joint study Friday that concluded that e-commerce is having a substantial impact on the commercial real estate industry ...

On Thursday, Wal-Mart, Inc. tapped former Banana Republic CEO Jeanne P. Jackson to head its newly independent Walmart.com Web site, prompting some industry analysts to believe that the mammoth retailer will finally hit its online stride ...

According to published reports, controversial Internet advertising firm DoubleClick, Inc. has been receiving leaked personal financial information from Intuit Corp.'s Quicken Web site ...

Earlier this week, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush hinted that he would not have allowed the U.S. to take antitrust action against the Microsoft empire ...

This week, a long-overdue precedent was set when the operator of a sports gambling Web site was convicted in the first case of its kind to go to trial ...

U.S. President Bill Clinton is apparently pushing governors to reach a compromise position on Internet taxation that would link a moratorium on taxation with a plan for states to simplify their sales tax structures ...

Legend has it that Microsoft's Bill Gates looked AOL CEO Steve Case in the eye seven years ago and spread the following dose of sunshine: ...

Last week, when giant Japanese conglomerate Softbank Corp. announced plans to take a $57 million (US$) stake in the online operation of Toys "R" Us, the "other shoe" dropped at the headquarters of eToys, Inc ...

A new report by Forrester Research, Inc. shows that gradual consumer acceptance and strained business models will prevent online used car sites from achieving a strong position in the marketplace ...

In what has become a persistent problem for popular Internet sites of late, the National Discount Brokers Group reported that its stock-trading Web site was shut down for more than an hour Thursday as a result of an apparent denial-of-service (DoS) hacker assault ...

Arizona Senator and Republican presidential candidate John McCain's recent record online fundraising tally of $500,000 (US$) in one day signals the arrival of a key new factor in the U.S. political process, according to a new report by Forrester Research ...

District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow in its ongoing antitrust trial yesterday by comparing the software company to John D. Rockefeller's 19th century Standard Oil monopoly that was broken up by the U.S. government some 90 years ago ...

Last December, when Canadian startup Zero-Knowledge Systems, Inc. began selling a service that allows Internet users to choose fictitious names for such activities as sending e-mail, visiting Web sites or joining newsgroups, I was not at all impressed ...

Online computer giant Dell Computer Corp. announced today that it is expanding its e-commerce offerings by launching a Web site hosting service for small to medium-sized businesses ...

Despite a well-publicized tripling of e-commerce spending last year, many e-tailers found themselves falling far short of the shopping season revenues needed to keep their virtual storefronts open ...

According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., all online sales should and will be taxed just like brick-and-mortar sales. ...