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Until recently, it was rare to see dot-com chief executive officers lose their jobs or even leave voluntarily. But these are different times -- much different -- and suddenly the heads of Internet chiefs are rolling with regularity ...

It's not hard to understand why the folks at eBay think they've got the makings of a television show on their hands, as was announced last week. Reality is in, after all, as the "Survivor" craze attests to. People have a fascination about other people, how they act under the glare of the cameras ...

Auction giant eBay continues to turn out solid growth and profit numbers, announcing third quarter earnings Thursday showing revenues nearly twice what they were a year ago ...

As if the e-commerce sector weren't worried enough about the prospect of e-commerce taxes, along came Active Research on Wednesday to say that most Americans would cut back online spending if they had to pay taxes ...

America Online (NYSE: AOL) said Wednesday that its earnings for the first quarter nearly doubled from a year ago, beating analysts estimates and putting the bellwether firm in a position to help repair the recent damage on Wall Street ...

Dominant online auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is talking with the major U.S. television networks about creating a show featuring the site's products and the people who put them up for auction, according to published reports ...

Many an e-commerce company has spent untold amounts of time and money making sure their Web sites nail down marquee spots on the results pages of various search engines ...

According to a report released Monday by research firm Gartner, high-speed Internet and network connections will spur the average American family to spend 20 times as much money online within six years as they do presently ...

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and the Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE: DIG) launched a co-branded auction site Monday called Disney Auctions, as part of an agreement between the two companies that will see the mammoth auction site offer ESPN and ABC merchandise in the future ...

I used to be one of Amazon.com's staunchest supporters, standing firmly behind the Internet bellwether come what may ...

It's natural to shrug off the two straight months of slow e-tail growth as the lull before the holiday rush. It's natural as well to believe that once snow starts to fall and Christmas carols fill the air, everything will be all right ...

Several high-tech companies, including WebMD, Motorola (Nasdaq: MOT), Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) and Compaq Computer (Nasdaq: CPQ), saw changes at the top of the executive ladder on Thursday amid a barrage of resignations and retirements ...

Despite turbulence in the computer chip sector on the whole, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD), the number-two manufacturer behind Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), reported better-than-expected earnings late Wednesday ...

There are people who think that the failure of WebHouse says more about the company itself, and how it spent cash, than the online market for discounts on groceries and gasoline ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Sony Music Europe said Wednesday they will partner to form a Web-based music video channel for European music fans ...

U.S. shoppers will spend $12.5 billion (US$) online during the last two months of the year, more than double last year's holiday spending, a report released Thursday by the NPD Group predicted ...

There they were up on Capitol Hill, doing their best impression of people who don't mind the onerous privacy regulations that are almost undoubtedly about to be forced upon them. America Online was there to speak to a Senate hearing. Hewlett-Packard too ...

Sales of computer chips will remain strong for two more years, extending one of the longest and strongest runs for the highly cyclical industry, according to a new report from Gartner division Dataquest ...

Six months after it became one of the earliest and most striking examples of the dot-com shakeout, fashion retailer Boo.com is poised to begin its second online life ...

Imagine: A venture capitalist arrives at work one day and sets down his Starbucks mug next to a stack of business plans that tower over his inbox. As he begins sorting through them, out flutters an envelope containing a check ...