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Will E-Commerce Connect the Dots?

In some ways, the Internet got a lot more elbow room last week when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) carved out seven new domain suffixes to go with dot-com (.com). ...

Dot-Com Death by Degrees

The headlines are daunting. Every day seems to bring at least one dot-com failure to the fore. But for all the wisdom of trying to see the big picture, we need to zoom in and consider what this shakeout means for the individuals. ...

AOL Launches Upscale Shopping Area

Further fortifying its holiday e-tail offerings, America Online (NYSE: AOL) unveiled a luxury shopping section of Shop@AOL Wednesday ...

Stop Dumbing Down the Web!

As e-tailers grapple with trying to make their Web sites easier and easier for online visitors to use, a disconcerting question is coming to the fore: How dull do you have to be to shop online? ...

E-Holiday Season Off to Slow Start

The anticipated online holiday shopping surge has yet to begin, according to a study released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT), with top sites showing little or no growth in traffic during the first week in November ...

Net Incubators Can’t Stand the Heat

If you think it's a bad time to be a stuck-in-the-mud dot-com, imagine holding the bag for about 70 of them ...

Eyeing China, Yahoo! Buys Taiwan Portal

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Thursday it had reached an agreement to buy Kimo, the top Chinese-language portal in Taiwan, for approximately $146 million (US$) in stock ...

eBay Cuts Butterfields Staff

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) cut 15 percent of the workforce at its high-end Butterfields auction house on Wednesday ...

Putting Net Furniture Sales To Bed

Put furniture on the list. The list, that is, of items that people absolutely, positively and unequivocally do not want to buy online. That is the message, plain and simple, behind the collapse of Furniture.com ...

Election Special: Gore Would Grow the Government

If you're waiting to exhale until the U.S. government swoops in and saves the populace from the troubling Digital Divide problem, you'd better reconsider ...

Autoworkers To Get AOL

America Online (NYSE: AOL) said Thursday it has reached an agreement with General Motors (GM) and Daimler-Chrysler to provide discounted Internet and interactive TV service to the automakers' 300,000 employees ...

Should Big Business Fear Dot-Coms?

Jack Welch has plenty of reasons to be confident. After all, he built General Electric into one of the world's largest companies, turning an appliance-maker into a defense giant and broadcasting powerhouse in the process. And the soon-to-retire Welch has written an impressive swan song for himself: a merger with Honeywell worth $45 billion (US$) ...

Listen.com Scoops Up Scour’s Assets

Listen.com said Wednesday it will buy the assets of bankrupt Scour, Inc., further accelerating the warming of relations between the major record labels and the file-sharing community ...

Amazon Makes Japanese Debut

Hoping to crack the lucrative Asian e-commerce market, Amazon.com launched a Japanese-language site Wednesday focused on its core business of selling books ...

Was Amazon Outfoxed?

Why they held it back so long is a mystery, but finally, Barnesandnoble.com and Barnes & Noble, Inc. have brought out the secret artillery they've had since this whole Internet thing began ...

Barnesandnoble.com Meets Street, Eyes Holidays

Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) met analysts' expectations for earnings on Monday and said recent investments have positioned the online bookseller for a record-breaking holiday season ...

E-Commerce Bubble in No Trouble

E-commerce means different things to different people, whether it's a household name like Amazon or an obscure business-to-business hub where chemicals are sold ...

AltaVista Trumps Cybersquatter

AltaVista won its bid to have an international cybersquatter evicted from 43 domain names Monday after a United Nations panel ruled in favor of the embattled Web portal ...

Any Innovation in the ISP Wars?

You've heard it a million times. In fact, it might be the word that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer say most often in public. The word, of course, is "innovation." ...

More Troubles for Peapod

Six months after being rescued from the brink of bankruptcy, online grocer Peapod, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPOD) continues to see increasing financial losses, reporting Wednesday that it fell well short of earnings estimates for the third quarter ...

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