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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to examine whether individual states are acting in an anticompetitive way toward e-commerce. According to the FTC, the states' actions might be costing consumers as much as US$15 billion per year. ...

Admitting you're wrong is one of the hardest things to do in life. So it's no wonder that despite a mountain of evidence that the AOL Time Warner merger seems doomed to failure, the marriage continues. ...

Few businesses gained as many new customers during the dot-com peak as online brokerages. Commercials showed stay-at-home moms checking their portfolios for midday gains and gangly underachievers becoming rich by trading online ...

Amazon.com has launched the first phase of a Web services offering, giving Web developers free access to Amazon content and features and saying there is more to come. ...

Poor Yahoo. First, the company can't produce enough nonadvertising revenue to make analysts and investors happy. And now it appears the company is producing too much nonadvertising revenue ...

Some ethnic minorities are gaining ground in terms of online presence in the United States, though they still comprise just a fraction of overall Web traffic, according to a new study from Nielsen//NetRatings. ...

Robertson Stephens, an investment bank that helped take Webvan, eToys, Palm, eMachines, Buy.com and a score of other Internet and tech companies public in the dot-com heyday, will be closed after attempts to find a buyer failed. ...

A Canadian government agency has cleared Amazon.com to sell books through its newly launched Canadian Web site, saying the e-tailer is not subject to a law that regulates foreign investment in booksellers. ...

Before last spring, Major League Baseball's Internet efforts were as far-flung and varied as the league's 30 teams. And by and large, they struck out with Web surfers ...

Travel site Expedia has announced plans to buy a privately held business travel agency and use the acquisition as the core of an effort to enter the market for corporate travel ...

It's a sign of the times. In the afterglow of eBay's PayPal acquisition announcement, although the deal has few detractors, questions are being raised. ...

In a widely anticipated move, auction giant eBay has announced it will acquire online payment company PayPal in an all-stock deal valued at US$1.5 billion. ...

At first, traffic counts were all that mattered to e-commerce. The number of people visiting a site was the single best gauge of a site's success in a new industry. But times have changed. ...

A long, long time ago, before Amazon.com modified its "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" slogan to encompass all the other merchandise on its virtual shelves, e-commerce took its first baby steps by selling books to the worlds hungry readers. ...

Companies took a break from laying off workers from Internet-related jobs in June, with just 684 layoffs announced, according to a report from international outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...

While WorldCom has been severely battered by revelations of improper accounting and accusations of fraud, the company has what it takes to survive the current crisis, according to a new report from research firm The Yankee Group. ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil fraud suit against WorldCom over the company's US$4 billion misstatement of financial results during 2001 and the first quarter of 2002 ...

Every day, eBay looks more and more like the strongest swimmer in the dot-com pool ...

As the stock market searches for solid ground, testing lows set after September 11th and bracing for another uncertain earnings season, those who watch the tech economy say the question of how to value technology stocks remains a riddle. ...

Priceline.com said it would not meet its own sales targets for the current quarter, pointing at the failure of an expected seasonal increase in airline ticket sales to materialize ...