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Often, management shakeups are nothing more than bodies being moved around, sometimes just for show, to let investors know that no one is asleep at the switch. ...

More than 40 percent of all reported Internet fraud complaints stemmed from online auctions in 2001, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a report covering complaints received during the year. ...

In one of the biggest e-commerce mergers of the year, online stock-trading site Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) said it would acquire privately held competitor Datek Online Holdings for nearly US$1.3 billion in stock. ...

In the United States, Internet-based music swapping has already had its heyday. Sure, it's still going on, pushed underground by lawsuits and enforcement actions. But never again will it enjoy the kind of glamorous prominence it enjoyed just a short while ago, when Napster was the coolest thing since eight-track tapes ...

The search engine wars are heating up, with Google joining Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and MSN as leaders in the race for control of this important Web sector, according to a report released by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT). ...

The seeds of the trends now taking hold in e-commerce were planted in the industry's early days, long before the shakeout began, according to experts. But only now, as the dust settles, are those trends starting to point the way clearly toward the future of e-commerce. ...

The latest shot in the privacy regulation war has been fired, and it puts a whole new twist on the debate. Turns out that companies are collecting less data about shoppers than they used to, at least according to one group that opposes new privacy laws ...

Just days after acknowledging that its existing Web hosting capabilities leave it vulnerable to outages, auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) has tapped a division of tech titan Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to provide additional hosting services. ...

As e-commerce and security companies continue to search for the answer to consumers' privacy concerns, Visa has announced that the Web arm of retail giant Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has signed up to use Visa's password-protection program. ...

E*Trade (NYSE: ET) on Monday announced it will partner with Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to provide customers with streaming financial data and access to trading through Yahoo's instant messaging technology. ...

Dot-com job cuts more than doubled in March compared with February, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...

In its youth, as it struggled for acceptance, e-commerce could count on the spirited support of a handful of influential stock analysts who were credited with -- and then blamed for -- creating the tech-stock bubble. ...

Savvy television viewers don't need calendars. If a doctor on ER is on death's door, if the last single Friends hook up, if Victoria's Secret models are jumping out of airplanes, it's probably sweeps month ...

Economic realities forced e-commerce and the Internet to turn away from voracious growth and focus on long-term viability in 2001, creatinga slew of new challenges, according to a report released by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) ...

News flash: E-commerce grew fast ... in the year 2000 ...

Auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) has struck a partnership that will let it cozy up to the catalog industry, which in general has excelled at combining its traditional sales channel with the Web. ...

Auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) noted in its annual report that government regulators have closed an investigation into whether it engaged in anticompetitive practices in its battle with now-shuttered Bidder's Edge. ...

Looking to accomplish on its own what it once hoped to do by acquiring HotJobs, Monster.com has launched its first local job site aimed at hourly workers ...

Riddle time: What do Girl Scout cookies, snow blower parts and a US$2 million waterfront home have in common? ...

While Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMSE) tries to move on from its accounting woes, which led to the restatement of millions of dollars worth of income over a two-year period, at least one of its online partners is now sharing the company's pain. ...