years after (Internet advertising) birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth (AFP)AFP

years after (Internet advertising) birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth (AFP)AFP

10 years after birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth (AFP)
AFP - After enjoying phenomenal growth in its first 10 years, Internet commerce faces new challenges amid growing fears of viruses, spyware and a range of fraud schemes.

At 10, eBay still scrappy (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Meg Whitman speaks with the confidence of a warrior who's stared down many an enemy. And for good reason. As chief executive of eBay, she's guided the company to the top of the e-commerce mountain, beating back nearly every competitor that has tried to stand in her way.

Google's Growth Prompts Privacy Concerns (AP)
AP - Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.

Internet provides instant Harry Potter reviews (Reuters)
Reuters - In the age of the Internet, a bookreview can be virtually instant.

Internet's Yahoo teams up with university students in Berkeley (AFP)
AFP - US Internet powerhouse Yahoo.com is mining college brain power for technology innovations by setting up a university research laboratory, the company announced.