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Facing little prospect of turning a profit with a standalone Web business anytime soon, NBC said Monday it would buy out and absorb NBCi (Nasdaq: NBCI) after less than two years of independent operations for the portal. ...

The leaders of the Internet world are rushing into the abyss, coming up with new ways to charge users for their once-free services every day. The latest entrant in the pay-to-play derby is Yahoo!, which will offer "premium" financial information for a monthly fee ...

A month after announcing that its customers' credit card information was exposed to hack attacks, Bibliofind.com said Thursday that it will move its operations to the site of its parent company, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN). ...

Amid a slew of new partnerships and product announcements in the digital music field, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Thursday it has formed an alliance with Duet, a subscription-based music service being developed by two of the world's largest record labels. ...

Just over a year ago, investors were pushing each other out of the way to place "buy" orders for soaring tech stocks. Today, the crowds are forming instead at lawyers' offices ...

Online travel sites are facing fast-rising competition from the airlines themselves and must move quickly to guard their turf, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. ...

I'm all for grass-roots efforts to boost awareness of the greatness of the Web, but "Back the Net Day"? ...

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) has revised its privacy policy, clearing the way for user information to be transferred to a third party if the auction leader is sold or merged. ...

A single act of "economic mass victimization" is likely to hit a broad spectrum of e-commerce customers in the next two years, according to a report released Friday by Gartner ...

Somehow, eBay is trying to put a fairness spin on news that it is going to offer sellers the option of buying banner ads on the site. ...

PlanetRx.com said Thursday that its board of directors approved a plan to liquidate all of thee-tailer's assets, in an attempt to regain some cash for its shareholders ...

Here's a twist: shareholders complaining that a dot-com is being over-valued. That's right. Over-valued. In 2001. After the Nasdaq debacle and the shakeout and all the rest. ...

Looking to give their small business e-commerce services a boost, America Online (NYSE: AOL) and PurchasePro (Nasdaq: PPRO) unveiled 10 new services Wednesday through a host of strategic partners. ...

Call it the spillover effect. That's what happens when lame customer service online starts to impact how shoppers feel about a retailer's brick-and-mortar stores. ...

Ever-changing e-tailer Kozmo said Monday it will abandon a US$150 million plan to install video drop-off boxes in hundreds of Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) coffee shops across the United States. ...

One week after cutting 40 percent of its workforce, Homes.com filed for bankruptcy protection Friday ...

When it comes to the Web, groceries are one thing, and not a verypromising one at that. But what about prepared foods? It's possible that your corner pizza store could be quietly writing an e-commerce success story ...

Already reeling from the plummet in online advertising revenue, the major Internet portals are busy answering another question posed by their Web merchant partners: Are portals still able to turn Web surfers into Web shoppers? ...

Financier Carl Icahn said Thursday he is ready to put up US$400 million to help his discount travel Web site Lowestfare.com buy or build its own airline ...

Internet retailers using strategic pricing for the Web are more likely to attain long-term success, according to a study released Wednesday by McKinsey & Company. ...