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They walked down the aisle together last year. So, Tuesday's announcement that online bridal registry WeddingNetwork.com and Modern Bride magazine had decided to merge online content and advertising was like hearing that the married couple decided to move into together Still, the reaffirmation of their vows does form a significant e-commerce union ...

Better Homes and Gardens magazine is trying to turn traditional shoppers into e-commerce enthusiasts. That was made clear on Monday when the magazine's parent company, Meredith Corporation, (NYSE: MDP) announced an integrated publishing program called "Shop Online." The new program will be launched in October in an attempt to encourage a targeted p...

Already established online with an informational Web site about its thousands of electronic, computer and appliance items, superstore chain Circuit City (NYSE: CC) has finally decided to take the next logical step...Sell its products online The Richmond, Virginia-based company announced Tuesday that it would be adding e-commerce capabilities to its...

Hoping to reduce the number of online orders abandoned because of the hassle of filling out forms, some of the biggest computer, retail and credit card companies have agreed on a format that will enable customers to enter the information only once -- for transactions at many different sites An industry alliance -- founded by America Online, America...

The Los Angeles Times is going the extra mile, or maybe the extra $5 million (US$), to give its advertisers what they call in the ad business "added value." In case putting their wares on display in the nation's largest daily metropolitan newspaper is not enough to lure advertisers, the Times plans to offer them a link from its newspaper Web site t...

Local communities are not yet ready to give up the issue of Internet taxation, despite a bone thrown recently by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott At the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting Monday in New Orleans, the mayors, their allies in the National Association of Counties and the International Council of Shopping Centers vowed to con...

In a move to create an online marketing and advertising powerhouse, Internet advertiser DoubleClick, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK) has agreed to acquire market research firm Abacus Direct Corp. (Nasdaq: ABDR) in a $1 billion ($US) stock swap The companies said Monday that the deal, subject to approval from regulators and stockholders, would provide more effi...

The dog days of summer might be fast approaching, but for Pets.com, the prelude to summer has been an invigorating walk in the park -- so far The San Francisco-based online pet supplies retailer announced Monday that majority-shareholder Amazon.com and two venture capital companies have invested $50 million (US$) in the company in a second round of...

Late Friday night, leading online auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) apologized for a service outage that had crippled its site for nearly 24 hours. By that time, however, the damage had already been done. Disgruntled eBay customers vented their frustrations on online message boards and eBay stock fell more than nine percent, dropping 16-13/16 to 165-7/8 on Friday...

The University of Texas released a study this week estimating that more than $300 billion (US$) in revenue and some 1.2 million jobs were generated by way of the Internet in the US last year. With that much at stake, security issues are increasingly critical for companies engaged in e-commerce A recent survey, published by the non-profit Washington...

One of the partners behind Buy.com, E*Trade, GeoCities,Yahoo! and a host of other prominent Internet properties has apparently taken a liking to Global Sports (Nasdaq: GSPT), an e-commerce provider for a number of sporting goods retailers Global Sports said Friday that SOFTBANK Corp., a Tokyo-based provider of technology information, with stakes in...

It seemed like only a matter of time before the various companies that have Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as an investor started signing deals. One such deal was announced on Thursday. Mercata, a new e-commerce company that helps consumers get together as a group to receive discounts on merchandise, announced that it has partnered with online network Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET) to create a new category on Go2Net's shopping channel...

Microsoft set a precedent this week by announcing on June 8th that it would begin giving its subscribers in the U.K. free Internet access -- a trend that some say could eventually spread to the United States The move was fueled by Freeserve, an Internet-assess service owned by Dixons Group Plc, Britain's largest electronics and appliance retailer, ...

Having assisted in pioneering the booming online investing industry in the U.S., DLJdirect (NYSE: DIR), the online brokerage service of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., has crossed the Pacific and is preparing to launch its new trading service aimed at the Japanese market DLJdirect SFG Securities, Inc. (DLJdirect SFG), a joint venture between th...

Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ) and Red Hat Software, Inc. have announced a development and marketing agreement that will likely add to the mounting momentum of the Linux open-source operating system (OS) movement Enhanced compatibility between Compaq Tru64 UNIX and the Red Hat Linux OS package was a star of the deal, which will also make availab...

In a move that could add shareholder value, leading utility software provider Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced today that it plans to spin off its Internet Tools business unit to create a new, independent company Symantec, which manufactures such well-known products as Norton Antivirus and Visual Page, plans to leverage its position in the Java de...

German automaker Porsche lost a round of its battle against 138 Internet domain names it says infringes on its trademark, when a U.S. District Court in Virginia dismissed the company's attempt to sue the domain names rather than the individuals who registered the names In a ruling handed down Tuesday, the court said it could not allow Porsche to su...

No one, including the U.S. government, seems to believe that the government should force Internet companies to use electronic signatures for Internet transactions. But look for the feds and the states to offer private industry strong encouragement to get that transition fully underway At Wednesday's House Commerce Committee hearing on H.R. 1714, th...

Much as we Americans like to think that we have a firm command on all things Internet, it's clear that the rest of the world is catching on to the global reach of the Web A report released today by StatMarket, an Internet data source, shows that foreign domain Internet access is ratcheting up gradually and now stands at nearly 44 percent of all Web...

Seattle, Washington's GreaterGood.com is offering non-profit organizations a way to get in on electronic commerce to raise funds for their causes Through GreaterGood.com, non-profits of all shapes and sizes can set up a shopping center free on their own Web sites, and a portion of the revenues spent by shoppers will be passed to the organizations.