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Amazon To Take Reins at CDNow

CDNow.com has announced it will outsource its Web site operations to Amazon.com, becoming the latest in a string of online merchants to choose to join, rather than fight, the e-tail giant. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Is Anything Left of Novell?

When Novell reported fourth-quarter earnings recently, the financial press pounced on the company's sizeable loss of US$96 million. That loss was fueled by a $125 million write-down on real estate and other investments, including a decision to buy its way out of a pricey Silicon Valley lease. ...

Movie Industry Suffers Blow in DVD Court Ruling

In a closely watched case about DVD hacking and Web publishing freedoms, the California state Supreme Court has ruled that the Internet's reach does not erase jurisdictional boundaries. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

E-Commerce in the Shadow of the Hackers

What if, one day, every person who tried to shop at Amazon.com, eBay or any other online store were turned away by an attack on the Internet's core? ...

AOL Eyes Prepaid Market To Boost Revenue

AOL has begun selling prepaid Internet access cards and offering more online content, providing a glimpse into parent company AOL Time Warner's strategic plans for jump-starting growth at its online unit. ...

IBM To Sink $1B into Research/Consulting Wing

IBM has launched the first phase of what executives say will be a complete organizational shift toward on-demand computing and services, saying it will invest US$1 billion to provide customers with access to a team of consultants and researchers. ...

EBay Takes on Amazon with New Store, Free Shipping

In what may be its most direct competitive move yet against e-tail giant Amazon.com, eBay has announced plans to consolidate its electronics listings into a single online store and to offer free shipping on some purchases ...

Reports: E-Shoppers Get Head Start on Holidays

Two new reports suggest online holiday shopping has gotten an early start this year, possibly paving the way for a strong fourth quarter. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Is Pessimism the Key to Stock Growth?

The stock market rally that Microsoft sparked by smashing through its first-quarter revenue and earnings targets had barely started to take hold when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer began telling audiences that the results were an aberration. ...

Executive Unrest Brews Again at AOL

Just seven months after being hired to revive the America Online Internet brand, James de Castro has announced he is leaving AOL Time Warner. ...

Capellas To Leave HP – for WorldCom?

Hewlett-Packard president Michael D. Capellas, a key figure in the hard-fought battle over the HP-Compaq merger, will resign his position and is rumored to be the choice to try to resurrect fraud-plagued WorldCom. ...

At Last, Amazon Launches Apparel Store

Ending weeks of speculation, Amazon.com has formally launched its apparel store, timing the debut to coincide with the start of the holiday season. ...

Microsoft Launches Tablet PC; Will Consumers Shrug?

After several years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on development, Microsoft has launched its Windows XP Tablet PC platform. The company claims Tablet PCs will help revolutionize computing by allowing users to enter and manipulate data with a pen-like stylus. ...

Priceline Plans Layoffs as Air Slump Persists

Casting a shadow over what has become a dot-com turnaround success story, Priceline.com announced it will lay off 15 percent of its workforce and will trim some product lines after a larger-than-expected quarterly loss. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Yahoo’s Surprising Success Strategy

Is Yahoo! on track with its latest business strategy, or is it losing the focus that made it a force to be reckoned with in the online arena? ...

Report: Tight Budgets Mean Flat IT Spending in 2003

Demand for information technology products and services has bottomed out and is on the rise again, but strict budget controls will prevent IT spending by U.S. companies from increasing in 2003, according to a new report from Gartner and Soundview Technology Group. ...

Microsoft Cheers Ruling; Europe, Private Suits Remain

Saying it has cleared the way for even more innovation, Microsoft hailed Friday's ruling that an antitrust settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is punishment enough for its past misbehavior. ...

Microsoft To Remain Intact

Software giant Microsoft has escaped a forced breakup in its epic antitrust battle with the U.S. Department of Justice and a group of states unhappy with an earlier settlement agreement. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly supported all of the provisions of the earlier settlement and rejected the penalties proposed by the nine non-settling states ...

Report: Online Sales Fell for First Time in Q3

U.S. online sales fell in the third quarter, marking the first quarterly decline in the history of e-tail as economic realities finally found their way onto the Web, according to a Forrester Research report. ...

Report: Venture Funding Takes Another Fall

Venture capital investments tumbled another 26 percent in the third quarter, with quarterly funding levels falling below US$5 billion for the first time since 1998, according to a new report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association. ...

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