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CacheFlow (Nasdaq: CFLO) edged up 82 U.S. cents to $8.40 in morning trading Thursday, despite reporting asteeper loss for the period than a year ago, after the company'sfourth-quarter results beat Wall Street estimates ...

Network Appliance (Nasdaq: NTAP) dipped US$1.33 to $21.20 in morning trading Wednesday, after the company reported that fiscal fourth-quarter profit plummeted 98 percent ...

Semiconductor equipment giant Applied Materials (Nasdaq:AMAT) advanced 28 U.S. cents to $50.17 in early trading Wednesday, despitereporting that its second-quarter profit plunged due to slumping demand forits chip products and reduced spending by manufacturers in the sector ...

Brocade Communications Systems(Nasdaq: BRCD) edged up 90 U.S. cents to $43.40 in morning trading Wednesday, afterthe networking products manufacturer said its second-quarter profit fellalmost 10 percent, matching Wall Street's expectations ...

Breaking the stream of disappointing earnings results in the tech sector, BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) jumped US$3.11to $37.15 in morning trading Wednesday, after the company said first-quarterprofit tripled, beating Wall Street estimates ...

Consumers spent US$4.3 billion online in April -- a 22.1 percent spike from the $3.5 billion racked up in Internet sales in March -- accordingto data released Tuesday by ForresterResearch and Greenfield Online ...

Although many sports Web sites in the United Kingdom are adding gambling services in an effort to boost income levels, the country'ssaturated online sports marketplace will face a squeeze in the coming years with a number of companies falling out of the game, according to a reportreleased Monday by ForresterResearch ...

Pointing to e-commerce as "critical" to the success of the U.S. economy, lawmakers introduced a resolution in both chambers of Congress Thursday calling on the Bush administration to make the growth of digital trade a top priority on its agenda ...

While product returns are set to cost Internet retailers an estimated US$3.2 billion in 2001, online merchants could "drastically" slash the figure by implementing automated Web-based return systems, according to a report released Wednesday by Gartner ...

The Internet sector in four chief Asia-Pacific economies is undergoing a "major reformation," according to a report released Wednesday by the Yankee Group ...

In a bid to further expand its e-commerce offerings, the Netscape NetbusinessMarketplace announced Tuesday that it has struck a deal withTravelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) to sell airline tickets, hotel bookings and car rentalreservations ...

Looking to tap the digital music subscription market, personalized software maker MusicMatch announced Monday that it is starting a fee-driven online radio service that will serve as a springboard for the launch of song-selling initiatives in the coming months ...

Looking to extend its reach to a new audience of potential customers, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced Friday that it has launched a new service to allow newspaper readers to search their local print edition for items posted on the Internet auction heavyweight's site. ...

Hit hard by a precipitous drop in sales, beleaguered Internet retailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) reported Wednesday thatits first-quarter revenue plummeted 40 percent from the year-ago period andwarned that its second-quarter revenue would see an even deeper decline ...

Buoyed by a bounce in its current economic climate, Koreanbusiness-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce will remain "robust" in the comingyears, according to a report released Wednesday by the Yankee Group ...

Flying high on strong sales, online travel site Expedia.com (Nasdaq: EXPE) said Mondaythat it posted its first-ever profitable quarter more than a year ahead ofschedule, and projected that income for the next fiscal year would beat WallStreet estimates ...

Driven by a number of consolidation efforts, online book vendor Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced Thursday that it narrowly beat Wall Street estimates and trimmed its losses for the firstquarter ...

Online used car retailer iMotors.com hit a dead end Wednesday, announcing that it has shuttered its operations "due to a lack of sufficient capital to continue to grow the business." ...

While automotive Web sites continue to gain traction among Internet users inthe United States, data released Wednesday by Jupiter MMXI found that European consumersare increasingly steering toward such sites to research auto purchases, get directions and secure car loans and insurance policies ...

Online spending climbed to US$3.5 billion in March -- a 36 percent spike from the $2.6 billion seen last April -- as almost half of all Americans made purchases via the Web, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen//NetRatings and Harris Interactive ...