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Amazon.com, daring to tread on ground where some of the most spectacular dot-com burnouts took place, has begun selling groceries through its sprawling e-tail site ...

Netscape, the browser company whose rise and fall helped define the first decade of the World Wide Web, is being revamped yet again by parent company AOL, which hopes to fashion it into a news site that leverages some of the hottest trends in today's Web -- social-networking, tagging and blogging ...

Even with a steady stream of database breaches that lead to potential identity theft making headlines nearly every day, e-commerce continues to grow steadily, with many consumers increasingly sanguine about turning over sensitive information such as their credit card numbers to online merchants ...

In the first major pass at realizing e-commerce gains from its US$2.6 billion purchase of peer-to-peer communications firm Skype, eBay said it would begin to offer sellers on its auction platform the ability to let buyers contact them using the Internet text and voice chat technology ...

The converging Internet world may be about to see its latest head-to-head battle between Google and eBay, with reports suggesting Google is just days from launching a feature meant to rival the PayPal online payment system ...

A Michigan teenager who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and flew to the Middle East to meet someone she met through her MySpace.com page is back at home, with her misadventure stirring renewed debate about the safety of social networking sites that target a young audience ...

Several major technology companies -- including semiconductor maker Broadcom and Internet job site Monster -- disclosed Monday that they have established committees to investigate the handling of stock options grants as scrutiny of the practice spreads to include dozens of companies ...

Qualcomm said Monday it had asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate what the wireless phone and technology maker says is widespread patent infringement by rival Nokia ...

Regulators from the New York Stock Exchange are investigating whether short selling helped fuel the decline of Vonage (NYSE: VG) stock in the wake of the Internet calling company's disappointing initial public offering ...

U.S. Internet companies and other advocates of guaranteed network neutrality suffered a setback Thursday when an effort to tack a net neutrality amendment onto a larger cable reform bill could not muster enough votes ...

As lawmakers gear up to debate the notion of passing legislation to ensure so-called net neutrality, an alternative approach to create a two-tiered Internet -- something many Web companies say will put them at a disadvantage -- appears to be gaining momentum ...

Sales of semiconductors will grow by nearly 10 percent this year as demand for smartphones and other consumer gadgets drive chip consumption, according to a new industry forecast ...

Search giant Google may seek to alter terms of the agreement it made in order to conduct its Web search business in China. Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggested the move after admitting the company's decision to agree to censorship conflicts with its philosophy and famous "do no evil" motto ...

For the second time in a month, Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit accusing Singapore-based computer and consumer device maker Creative Technology of infringing on its patents, including those behind the market-dominant iPod portable music player ...

Adding a new twist in the music industry's search for the right way to sell digital tunes and prevent piracy, EMI Music said Tuesday it has agreed to become the first label to make its catalog available on an ad-supported peer-to-peer network ...

IBM said Tuesday it would triple the amount it spends to build out its India operations over the next three years, spending US$6 billion to hire workers and build research labs and other facilities ...

Seeking to use a novel approach to the problem of patrolling the lengthy border between the U.S. and Mexico, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has proposed using remote cameras that would be connected to the Internet, allowing regular citizens the opportunity to help watch for border-jumpers ...

With its initial public offering stumbling badly out of the gate, VoIP provider Vonage (NYSE: VG) has been hit with a suit from a law firm representing shareholders, many of whom were customers who bought shares at a price higher than the stock is now trading ...

Microsoft could soon face another private antitrust suit after talks with Adobe broke down over the level of support Microsoft would include for portable document format (PDF) in its upcoming Office 2007 suite ...

Number two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has laid out an ambitious product roadmap, one that features it focusing on the growing market for notebook chips and increasing production overall as it bids to wrest still more market share away from Intel ...