E-Commerce

Most online Americans view online shopping as a way to save time and a convenient way to buy products, but most also express discomfort about sending personal or credit card information over the internet

In China, even mooncakes are making their way online.

In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.

The base of the internet is broadening to include more people with less education than ever before, while older Americans are still overwhelmingly offline. Internet users who have experienced spyware act differently online from those who have not....

Online banking is holding steady as a mainstream internet activity, growing along with internet use generally, though not accelerating as have some other forms of online activities.

One in six internet users has used the internet to sell things and traffic to online classified sites has risen 80% in the past year.

9% of online Americans made donations on the internet to relief efforts and 7 million set up their own hurricane relief efforts using the internet.

How the booming Chinese online auction market compares to America's.

Our surveys now show that one in four internet users have tried their hand at online auctions, and that the absolute number of online auction participants has been growing along with the overall internet population.

The number of people who make charitable donations online has roughly doubled since 2002, but there's plenty of room for growth.