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Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) stock is still more than 80 points off its all-time high, but things are looking up. Shares of Amazon.com gained 8-7/8 to 135 on Wednesday after the company announced that it has a minority stake in online sporting goods retailer Gear.com ...

Shares of business-to-business/Internet infrastructure software company Tibco Software (Nasdaq: TIBX) had a strong first day of trading on Wednesday as the recent run of successful Internet IPOs continued. Tibco Software priced its IPO at $15. The stock closed the day up 17-3/8 to 32-3/8, a gain of nearly 116 percent. The stock opened at 38-1/4 and traded as high as 40...

A major media company and an emerging online network for broadband-enabled consumers are teaming up to offer an alternative for movie fans who are tired of waiting in long lines at their local theater. Today, Tribune Media Services, which is a subsidary of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), and On2.com (AMEX: ONT), which is creating a network of Web channels that deliver video-rich, interactive content via broadband, are working together to launch a new service that will offer online ticketing for more than 29,000 movie screens nationwide...

Although it still appears as if eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is the clear leader in online auctions, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is making a big push to grab a piece of the international market. Today, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Germany has launched a German version of Yahoo!'s auction service ...

Many Internet stocks were sold off on Tuesday, but shares of Amazon.com soared 8-3/4 to 126-1/8 after the company launched new sections for electronics and toys on its Web site. The expansion comes as no surprise. It's long been known that Amazon.com is feverishly trying to turn itself into a "one-stop shop." It's now a matter of figuring out what Amazon.com branches into next...

On Monday, this daily stock watch noted that the executives at MP3.com are going to be singing sweet music when the company goes public later this month. Well, it looks like the singing has already started ...

The Web hosting server market is growing rapidly as more businesses go online, and the popular domain-based Web hosting company Verio (Nasdaq: VRIO) is tapping into this expanding market ...

Privately held online grocer Webvan Group is looking to go national in a major way. On Friday, Webvan announced a deal with construction firm Bechtel that greatly ups the ante for online sales of groceries. The deal, which is expected to exceed $1 billion (US$), will result in Webvan distribution centers being built by Bechtel in 26 new markets over the next 24 months...

Telecommunications heavyweight Bell Atlantic has 43 million telephone access lines and nine million wireless customers worldwide. The company is now looking beyond telephone customers, however, and focusing on e-commerce ...

On a day when most Internet stocks saw gains, leading auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) fell 4-1/16 to 134-3/16 on Thursday ...

Shares of Interliant (Nasdaq: INIT), which provides Web-hosting services for small businesses, had a strong trading session after the company went public on Thursday. The initial public offering priced at $10 -- the middle of its range ...

Leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) continued its run of exceeding Wall Street's expectations when it announced its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the U.S. stock markets closed ...

Online book seller barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) launched a new online music store on Wednesday, but Wall Street barely noticed. Shares of barnesandnoble.com climbed just 7/16 to 17-11/16 after the news. This has to be disappointing for shareholders of barnesnoble.com, which is still struggling mightily to get out of the shadow of e-commerce leader Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN)...

Shares of Musicmaker.com (Nasdaq: HITS), which allows customers to create customized CDs, soared after the company went public on Wednesday. The initial public offering was priced at $14, and the stock closed up 9-15/16 to 23-15/16, a gain of nearly 71 percent. The volume of more than 17 million shares traded was high, considering that only 8.4 million shares were available for trading...

Not content with being just an online broker, E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced today that it is expanding its e-commerce arsenal by branching out into real estate. E*Trade and online real estate marketplace Owners.com have launched a co-branded real estate service that can be accessed on E*Trade's mortgage center ...

Online postage company Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) was one of the biggest winners on Wall Street last Friday. Shares of Stamps.com, which has developed technology that allows customers to use their computers to print postage, soared more than 50 percent on Friday, gaining 11-1/4 to 33-1/2 one day after the company announced a deal with online direct marketer MySoftware (Nasdaq: MYSW)...

Shares of online retailer Onsale (Nasdaq: ONSL) climbed nearly 36 percent on Friday, gaining 6-5/8 to 25-1/4 after rumors began to circulate about the possibility of the company being acquired by Amazon.com ...

Online shopping is supposed to be empowering, but surfing through all the various retailers to make a purchase can often be exhausting and frustrating. That's why online shopping guides like BizRate.com, which are designed to help customers comparison shop and make informed purchases, are in favor ...

The e-commerce software industry looked red-hot on June 23 when shares of e-commerce software developer Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) went public at $23 and closed at $90. On Thursday, things looked even more sizzling ...

Leading e-commerce retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is clearly dominating online bookselling. The competition, however, just got a lot tougher ...