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Starbucks' e-commerce plans have been the source of much speculation ever since news of the company's possible e-commerce and portal plans began to circulate last month. Things became a little more clear on Thursday, when the specialty coffee retailer announced a strategic alliance with Oxygen Media, a high-profile media company that publishes a network of Web sites for women and is working to develop a cable channel...

Shares of e-commerce software company i2 Technologies climbed nearly 23 percent, gaining 7-1/2 to 40-9/16 on Wednesday, after Goldman Sachs upgraded the company from market outperform to its recommended list and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter initiated coverage with an outperform rating ...

The fact that Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL) has given up its monopoly on its domain-name registration business has some investors concerned. But the stock has been rather strong for two trading sessions in a row. On Wednesday, a marketing deal with Internet infrastructure company Infospace.com helped Network Solutions stock climb 4-1/4 to 60-1/4...

Shares of MessageMedia (Nasdaq: MESG) climbed nearly 14 percent on Thursday after the e-mail based provider of customer relationship management and direct marketing announced its second acquisition in two days. MessageMedia stock climbed 1-9/16 to 12-15/16 after the company announced it would buy Decisive Technology, which monitors and analyzes user feedback about e-commerce, for about $50 million in stock...

Shares of online travel agent Preview Travel are still trying to recover from May's sell off in the Internet sector. However, the company, which has recently been mentioned as a possible takeover target that could fetch a big premium, continues to receive positive coverage ...

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...

Shares of online credit card company Nextcard (Nasdaq: NXCD) rocketed more than 21 percent higher on Wednesday, gaining 7-3/4 to 44-1/4. Both Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Piper Jaffray spurred the runup by initiating coverage of Nextcard with bullish ratings. DLJ gave Nextcard a buy rating and set a price target of $70, while Piper Jaffray gave the company a strong buy rating...

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 ...

The initial public offering of drkoop.com, the online healthcare network founded by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, had a strong showing on Tuesday. Shares of DrKoop.com, which includes health news and an online pharmacy, closed up nearly 83 percent, rising 7-7/16 to 16-7/16 ...

It's not hard to knock Amazon.com for its current inability to turn a profit, and many are wondering if the e-commerce powerhouse will ever be in the black. One thing everyone has to admit, however, is that Amazon.com certainly is attracting a lot of customers, who have a lot of buying power on their credit cards ...

Online music and software distributor Navarre (Nasdaq: NAVR) has seen its stock get pounded in the recent Internet sector sell off, but shares of Navarre came roaring back on Monday after the company announced a distribution deal with Amazon.com ...

Online bank [email protected] (Nasdaq: NTBK) is bringing the safe deposit box, a staple of brick-and-mortar, banks online. On Monday, [email protected] announced that it is offering its customers a new Web-based safe deposit box service for storing valuable and confidential electronic documents. It remains to be seen whether customers will really trust Internet security enough to put important documents on somebody else's service, but [email protected] saw a nice gain in its stock price on Monday...

Online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC), which went public on Friday, suddenly has some major competition. On Monday, online investment bank E*OFFERING, which is backed by online broker E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP), launched its Web site ...

Friday's initial public offering of Online Resources & Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCC), which provides e-commerce services for banks, wasn't as successful. The IPO was priced at $14 and shares closed up just 1/16 ...

Sports Web site Sportsline USA (Nasdaq: SPLN) is primarily known as a content company, but the company is busy beefing up its e-commerce presence. Shares of Sportsline climbed 1/13-16 to 35-1/8, one day after the company announced that it has completed the acquisition of Golf Club Trader, a privately held online retailer that specializes in the buying, selling and trading of used golf equipment...

The Internet initial public offering market is weakening, with many offerings being postponed as uncertainty in the Internet sector continues ...

The next e-commerce powerhouse might just be leading retailer Wal-Mart (Nasdaq: WMT) ...

While many Internet stocks struggled to regain ground on Wednesday, shares of NetObjects (Nasdaq: NETO), which develops end-to-end solutions for online businesses, saw a healthy rise of nearly 13 percent. NetObjects stock gained 1-1/16 to 9-7/16 after it received strong buy ratings from both BT Alex Brown and Piper Jaffray ...

On May 11, online financial news site TheStreet.com was the darling of Wall Street when shares of its initial public offering gained 41 points to close at 61 on their first day of trading. The luster has quickly gone away. TheStreet.com has been one of the hardest-hit stocks in the hard-hit Internet sector since then, and the company is now worth less than half of what it was worth on IPO day...

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 ...