Online news ... a screenshot of news.com.au's coverage of the Victoria bushfires on February 10 / AUSTRALIAN news websites recorded more than one billion hits in February as the nation went online for the latest on the Victorian fires. Australians clicked 1,029,287,384 times on articles, pictures,...

Ashton Kutcher's online meltdown “PARANOID” Ashton Kutcher says spies could be monitoring him online – but that hasn’t stopped him from posting a rambling video rant sparked by a neighbour’s building project. “It’s 7:30 a.m. and I get to wake up in my bedroom to...

The volume of sales at Internet retailers held steady Friday compared to last year, despite the worsening economic outlook and signs U.S. consumers are cutting back on spending. Online sales on Nov. 28, the day after last week’s U.S Thanksgiving holiday, also known as Black Friday, were US$534...

Anxious online retailers are offering discounts, and free shipping, to lure budget-minded holiday shoppers. Online retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers into buyers during the crucial Thanksgiving weekend and “Cyber Monday” — but even so, online sales are...

Credit card numbers and bank details are big sellers among hi-tech thieves Hi-tech thieves who specialise in card fraud have a credit line in excess of $5bn (£3.35bn), research suggests. Symantec calculated the figure to quantify the scale of fraud it found during a year-long look at the internet’s...