Dow Jones Indexes Friday announced changes in the stock components of the Dow Jones Noncyclical Goods & Services Titans 30 Index. Effective with the opening of trading on Monday, March 8, 2004, eBay Inc. will replace Safeway PLC in the Dow Jones Noncyclical Goods & Services Titans 30 Index.

If central casting ever needed to find the classic technology expert, it couldn't do much better than Martin Nisenholtz. He is the chief executive officer of New York Times Digital, a division of the New York Times Co.

America Online on Thursday launched ICQ Universe, a new Friendster-style service built on its ICQ instant messaging product, which promises to connect friends and show relationships between people.

Match.com, the U.S. Internet dating company, took the No. 1 spot in the first global ranking of online personals providers done by comScore Media Metrix, a spokesman for the online market research firm said on Wednesday.

While more and more people are online, relatively few have created Web journals -- called blogs -- and even fewer do so with regularity, a new study has found.

The once-ubiquitous pop-up may have all but vanished from the news over the past year, but hardly a day goes by when I don't hear from a marketer desperate to incorporate the format into his campaign. Consumer usage of pop-up blocking software is increasing. So are the number of ISPs and browsers offering the feature. Yet that's not enough to dissuade marketers from gravitating to the format.

Ask Jeeves Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire online search and media company Interactive Search Holdings Inc. for $343 million, allowing it to double its market share.

Tacoda Systems, which enables publishers to target ads to audiences based on their demographics and online activities, is offering a low-cost starter version of its Audience Management System (AMS) with basic behavioral targeting.

Seeking to confirm the notion that the Internet is a mostly democratic tool, a just-released study says that nearly half of American Internet users have contributed online content in one form or another. Yet while the report highlights such impressive numbers, it also points out that most people who post content online are highly educated and highly paid, and post infrequently.

Two Senators who led the charge against spam are now bringing themselves into the war against spyware, with the Spyblock Act, which would make it illegal to install software without the consent of the Internet user.