Southwest Sites to Top $1B in Bookings
By Michael Learmonth
The airline's latest figures reflect a growing segment of Net-savvy travelers' tastes in flight cost and frequency.

Sears, Carrefour, Oracle Form Online Exchange
By Reuters
The two giant retailers and the software provider will launch the first global retail business-to-business exchange.

Another Old-Economy Defection
By Jennifer Couzin
Citigroup's CFO trades in her pinstripes for bigger options at Priceline.com.

UCLA's Venture Capital Lesson
By Jim Evans
A charity venture fund could bring UCLA big returns and serve as a model for other schools. But setting it up wasn't easy.

Shotgun Marriage
By Jason Krause
SBC's acquisition of Sterling Commerce gives the old-line Baby Bell a new Internet play. But it may not be enough to keep up with the competition.

Behind the Numbers: Which E-Commerce Site Rankings Should You Believe?
By Stacy Lawrence
Who are the best e-commerce merchants? A growing number of research firms claim to know the answer.

Behind the Numbers: The Mystery of B-to-B Forecasts Revealed
By Stacy Lawrence
Forecasts say business-to-business e-commerce will be huge. Yet, research firms disagree on the definition of business-to-business and how to tally it.

Survival of the Richest
By Daniel Akst
Amar V. Bhide explores the origin of a peculiar species of new business.

Syllabus
By Michiyo Yamada
What's on the bookshelves of today's business school students.

Risky Business
By James Fallows
Could broken promises from e-commerce Web sites send us scurrying back to the mall?

Can We Go Live with This?
By Carl Steadman
Steadman offers the lighter look at living in the Web world.