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Priceline.com has bought the domain name and trademark assets of onetime competitor Lowestfare.com, which stopped selling airline tickets a month ago. ...

If this were 1999, last week's Overstock.com IPO would have been considered an outright disaster. The online discount e-tailer's stock moved up a whopping 2 cents and has since returned to its US$13 offering price. ...

Underscoring the fragility of the economic recovery in the tech sector, Internet companies slashed 2,078 jobs in May, three times as many as in April, according to a report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...

Yahoo! has expanded and extended a strategic alliance with Travelocity and parent company Sabre Holdings that will give Travelocity exclusive billing on the portal giant's Web site. ...

USA Interactive has announced it will launch simultaneous buyout efforts that could give it full ownership of three major e-commerce players: Expedia, Ticketmaster and Hotels.com. In total, the deals could be worth US$4.5 billion. ...

Early in 2001, Epinions.com faced the same choice as scores of other dot-coms: Adapt or die. ...

Fingerhut's online operations are silent. The catalog company's site, which withered away slowly and painfully before finally dying, now features a farewell and good luck message instead of selling products ...

In what may be the first legal action of its kind, bankrupt dot-com eToys has sued Goldman Sachs, claiming the banking giant intentionally undervalued the e-tailer's 1999 initial public offering and paved the way for its eventual failure. ...

Providing more evidence that the IPO market for Internet offerings is slowly reviving, debuting DVD rental site Netflix sold 5.5 million shares of its common stock at the top of its price range. ...

In the future, we all will spend our days at our computer terminals, playing video games over the Internet against people we've never met ...

Apologizing for "inappropriate communications" but not admitting wrongdoing, Merrill Lynch has reached a US$100 million settlement with New York and other states. The deal ends the first phase of a potentially lengthy investigation of Wall Street analysts' behavior during the tech stock boom of the 1990s. ...

Every now and then, just for kicks, I type the Kozmo.com URL into my browser. I'm not sure what I expect will happen, but the result is always the same: nothing ...

Less than a year after its controversial debut, travel site Orbitz has announced plans to raise as much as US$125 million through an initial public offering. ...

The driving force behind Sears' US$1.98 billion purchase of Lands' End was the clothing brand itself. But Lands' End's reputation for merging catalog and online sales and providing high-quality customer service played a role as well. ...

The best way to learn is by doing. Along the way, e-commerce has found that some ideas that seemed promising at first are best left in the dustbin of technology history. A host of solutions to various problems have been tried, and in many cases discarded just as quickly ...

The strange saga of music swapping site Napster took another twist as media giant Bertelsmann announced it has reached an agreement to purchase the site and said most of the key executives who resigned last week will return. ...

In an effort to reach the 85 percent of consumers who do not yet buy travel online, Orbitz has announced it will make its airfares available to travel agents. ...

Two more companies have accused online payment firm PayPal of using their technology without permission, and the company's relationship with MasterCard may be in jeopardy, PayPal disclosed in its quarterly report. ...

It's that time of year again: Radio stations around the country are giving away prizes to lure listeners. The shopping spree is always a big favorite. The idea of spending US$10,000 of someone else's money is quite appealing ...

Languishing Napster's high-profile CEO and its cult-hero founder both have quit abruptly, leaving the once-soaring music-swapping site facing an uncertain future. ...