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When it comes to the U.S. government's approach to new businesses, the Internet is apparently no different from any other success story Seemingly everyone in government wants to have a hand in its development. With Capitol Hill's tide of Internet-related bills and resolutions swelling and the Federal Trade Commission diving in with its own new Inte...

Over the last several weeks, Yahoo! Inc. has plowed millions into buying companies that will move e-commerce from PCs onto wireless devices. But some industry experts say the wireless market is a china egg that will never hatch When the well-known Internet search engine forked over $130 million in stock buying Atlanta, Georgia-based Encompass, a co...

Facing the threat of legal action from the New York Times over its price-discounting of books on the newspaper's best-seller list, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed for declaratory relief in a U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington Thursday, effectively asking to be allowed to continue the practice The company started discounting books on the New...

Quick, Robin! The Bat-phone! I've got to get on the Internet! With plans to put the cool gadgets in the comic strip world into the hands of mere mortals, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced deals this week to take Internet surfing and shopping beyond the PC.

Online travel agent Travelocity.com reinforced its position as an industry leader on Thursday. This brings up the issue of whether Travelocity.com will fly higher and become a public company or remain part of holding company The Sabre Group (Nasdaq: TSG) On Thursday, Travelocity.com, which is owned and operated by Sabre, announced gross sales of mo...

"The clock is ticking." 5123:33.23 and counting. When users visit the newly launched Millennium Guide, powered by Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS), they'll be greeted with not only a Y2K countdown meter, but with opportunities to catch up on Y2K news or play a countdown to 2000 trivia game, as well Even if surfers view the possibility of a Y2K computer b...

The Internet is attracting a growing number of distance learning companies, presenting opportunities for both students and Internet stock hounds. Several public and private education-related companies this week announced plans to expand on the Internet, bringing a variety of services to the thousands of U.S. professionals needing more training Acco...

Borders.com parent Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) plans to buy a stake in books on-demand publisher Sprout, Inc. in a move to distinguish itself and its online store from dominant competitors barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com Borders agreed to take a minority interest in Sprout and will install Sprout's digital book production service in the Borde...

Both Merrill Lynch & Co. and Amazon.com took a beating earlier this week -- one for entering the world of e-commerce too late and the other for being a pioneer that's still not showing a profit When Merrill Lynch gleefully announced Tuesday that it was finally joining the ranks of online brokers, the reception it got was far from enthusiastic. Chri...

Direct e-commerce company XOOM.com (Nasdaq: XMCM), which will soon become part of NBC's new Internet division, added to its wide variety of services on Wednesday with the acquisition of MightyMail Networks MightyMail Networks is the developer of MightyMail, an e-mail platform that gives companies an online one-to-one marketing strategy. XOOM.com ac...

Pegasus Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEGS), a Dallas, Texas-based company which specializes in online hotel reservations, announced Thursday that it was chosen to provide its services to a newly-launched Japanese travel site that is featured on that country's second-largest Web portal Launched this week, Isize Travel Company, Ltd. includes online hotel re...

VA Linux Systems and Opensales.Com recently announced an alliance intended in part to advance the cause and availability of powerful and cost-effective Linux servers for companies engaged in e-commerce Under the terms of the agreement, VA -- a supplier of Linux-based hardware, software, service and support solutions -- will load Opensales.Com e-com...

No matter how Microsoft denies the credibility of their testimony, government witnesses like IBM's Garry Norris do much to make its antitrust case against the software giant According to Reuters, Norris, who negotiated Windows licensing agreements for IBM, testified last week at a pre-trail deposition that Microsoft threatened IBM if it didn't stop...

In an environment charged with a major China espionage scandal, and electronic attacks on the official Web sites of the White House, the Senate, and the FBI, the issue of online security remains a critical one E-commerce sites aren't being spared from recent waves of security breaches, though they could be doing more to immunize themselves, accordi...

Media giant CBS (NYSE: CBS) continued its foray into the online world Wednesday, with the announcement that it reached an agreement to take a 35% stake in Switchboard.com in exchange for $135 million (US$) worth of branding and promotion over the next 10 years A subsidiary of Banyan Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:BNYN), Switchboard.com is one of the ...

The unofficial start of the summer season brought sunshine and good vibrations to Techies.com, a network of career resource sites for technology professionals. The company announced Tuesday that it signed a two-year agreement with AOL's Digital City network to provide its services to the network's 4.3 million users In addition, techies.com said it ...

Independent-label music is often tough to track down via traditional retail stores, and the Internet is now giving music fans better access to hard-to-find favorites Today, online music seller CDuctive.com announced the launch of its new digital download store, which features a variety of notable acts on independent labels.

Someone was bound to think of it. Give the Gen X caboose a name, get their too-busy-to-shop parents to give up their credit card numbers and establish an online account for their kids and finally, convince the kid that they have better things to do than hanging out at the mall RocketCash Corporation of Saratoga, California just happened to be the o...

Before you drink too many more cups of java, Starbucks Corp. could begin an e-commerce blitz -- instantly transforming itself from a successful bean grinder into an online mass marketer The billion-dollar Seattle, Washington coffee seller has been dropping hints, but when it recently pumped $20 million into Talk City, Inc., a company that created a...

In what's been called by some industry analysts a score for Microsoft's Audio 4.0, Pop-Rap music group The Beastie Boys has announced the availability of the first of three previously unreleased tracks for secure digital download from Launch.Com (Nasdaq: LAUN) A remix of "The Negotiation Limerick File," released in conjunction with Capitol and Gran...