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Looking to pave the way for future growth in a largely untapped region, AOL Latin America (Nasdaq: AOLA) formally launched a portal Wednesday with content aimed at Internet users in countries including Venezuela, Chile and Colombia ...

In a move designed to focus its dwindling cash resources on the United States, Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) said Monday it has ceased operations in Australia. ...

In some ways, the Internet got a lot more elbow room last week when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) carved out seven new domain suffixes to go with dot-com (.com). ...

The headlines are daunting. Every day seems to bring at least one dot-com failure to the fore. But for all the wisdom of trying to see the big picture, we need to zoom in and consider what this shakeout means for the individuals. ...

Further fortifying its holiday e-tail offerings, America Online (NYSE: AOL) unveiled a luxury shopping section of Shop@AOL Wednesday ...

As e-tailers grapple with trying to make their Web sites easier and easier for online visitors to use, a disconcerting question is coming to the fore: How dull do you have to be to shop online? ...

The anticipated online holiday shopping surge has yet to begin, according to a study released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT), with top sites showing little or no growth in traffic during the first week in November ...

If you think it's a bad time to be a stuck-in-the-mud dot-com, imagine holding the bag for about 70 of them ...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Thursday it had reached an agreement to buy Kimo, the top Chinese-language portal in Taiwan, for approximately $146 million (US$) in stock ...

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) cut 15 percent of the workforce at its high-end Butterfields auction house on Wednesday ...

Put furniture on the list. The list, that is, of items that people absolutely, positively and unequivocally do not want to buy online. That is the message, plain and simple, behind the collapse of Furniture.com ...

If you're waiting to exhale until the U.S. government swoops in and saves the populace from the troubling Digital Divide problem, you'd better reconsider ...

America Online (NYSE: AOL) said Thursday it has reached an agreement with General Motors (GM) and Daimler-Chrysler to provide discounted Internet and interactive TV service to the automakers' 300,000 employees ...

Jack Welch has plenty of reasons to be confident. After all, he built General Electric into one of the world's largest companies, turning an appliance-maker into a defense giant and broadcasting powerhouse in the process. And the soon-to-retire Welch has written an impressive swan song for himself: a merger with Honeywell worth $45 billion (US$) ...

Listen.com said Wednesday it will buy the assets of bankrupt Scour, Inc., further accelerating the warming of relations between the major record labels and the file-sharing community ...

Hoping to crack the lucrative Asian e-commerce market, Amazon.com launched a Japanese-language site Wednesday focused on its core business of selling books ...

Why they held it back so long is a mystery, but finally, Barnesandnoble.com and Barnes & Noble, Inc. have brought out the secret artillery they've had since this whole Internet thing began ...

Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) met analysts' expectations for earnings on Monday and said recent investments have positioned the online bookseller for a record-breaking holiday season ...

E-commerce means different things to different people, whether it's a household name like Amazon or an obscure business-to-business hub where chemicals are sold ...

AltaVista won its bid to have an international cybersquatter evicted from 43 domain names Monday after a United Nations panel ruled in favor of the embattled Web portal ...