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The online casino industry is set to explode, but legal restrictions could keep U.S. firms out of the fray, according to a report issued Thursday by investment and securities firm Bear Stearns ...

U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) is urging government leaders to tread cautiously when regulating e-commerce, in order to avoid creating new stumbling blocks that would hinder growth in the volume of international business conducted via the Net ...

Luxury e-tailers who spend millions trying to imitate the offline luxury shopping experience to attract upscale customers may be wasting their money, according to a report issued Wednesday by Forrester Research ...

A contest posted on BountyQuest asking for examples of technology that would invalidate Amazon's 1-Click patent ended Wednesday without a winner, but with some damage to the intellectual property claim, according to publisher Tim O'Reilly, who launched the initiative. ...

Worldwide business-to-business e-commerce revenues reached US$433 billion in 2000, marking a 189 percent increase over the $145 billion spent online by businesses in 1999 and exceeding industry expectations significantly, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group. ...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Wednesday that Anil Singh, its chief sales and marketing officer and senior vice president of business operations, was retiring in early May "to spend more time with his family and pursue personal interests." ...

The Web sites are fancy, and the merchandise is nicely arranged with descriptions telling you exactly what your hard-earned money will buy, but these e-tailers aren't selling books or blenders ...

Video game giants Nintendo of America and Electronic Arts announced Monday that they would drop a trademark and copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo!. ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Monday that it has filed suit against a Florida Internet company, Families On Line (FOL) and two executives for allegedly bilking Christian investors out of almost US$4 million. ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced Monday that they have formed a strategic alliance to jointly develop e-commerce applications and expand the companies' Web presence ...

With nearly 300 shopping days left until Christmas, it is certainly too early to start fretting over e-commerce's annual rite of passage, the holiday shopping season. Instead, one might do well to take some time exploring the Internet's least likely stocking stuffers. ...

In a bid to gain a bigger share of the online travel market, both Priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN) and Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) unveiled new initiatives Thursday ...

Yahoo! announced Wednesday that it will replace Tim Koogle as chief executive officer and that it is lowering its guidance for the first quarter ending March 31st ...

German automaker Adam Opel, a subsidiary of General Motors (NYSE: GM),announced Wednesday that it is launching a pilot program tosell cars over the Internet at a discount ...

Online payment service PayPal announced Tuesday that it has closed on a US$90 million round of equity financing and now plans to work with its partners to expand its services internationally ...

Despite widespread consumer fears about online credit card fraud, the No. 1 scam on the Internet is Web auction fraud, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center ...

Consumers spent US$3 billion online in January -- less than half of the $6.1 billion spent online in December -- according to numbers released Monday by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Forrester Research. ...

Despite the benefits of business-to-business (B2B) online purchasing, corporate purchasing agents say that they plan to make only 20 percent of their purchases online in the next year, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Despite the benefits of business-to-business (B2B) online purchasing, corporate purchasing agents say that they plan to make only 20 percent of their purchases online in the next year, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Despite the benefits of business-to-business (B2B) online purchasing, corporate purchasing agents say that they plan to make only 20 percent of their purchases online in the next year, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...