Wall Street used to be ruled by a few despotic, slow-moving institutional giants. Now the market is driven by millions of miniature Jim Cramers. Are we happy about that?

By laying down the tracks of the Internet, Cisco has become the railroad of the New Economy. And the phone business may ensure it's not at the end of its growth track.

Obsessed with "unlocking value," blue-chip companies are spinning off their digital divisions as separate stocks. But if the bull stumbles, will there be blood on the tracks?

The technology of the twenty-first century is bringing back the marketplace of the eighteenth. But do consumers really want to bid for their breakfast?

What does a $23 billion multinational like Bernard Arnault's LVMH see in a small, New York-based beauty company like Bliss Spa? The start of a beautiful relationship.

The Internet strikes back: Is it really worth logging on just to rent a movie? Kozmo.com thinks so -- and it's only one of the companies banking on Web-delivery dollars.

Flatiron Partners leads the new breed of venture capitalists whose avuncular style and blazing stock-market success have supplanted the old buzzards.

Low-rent online broker Wit Capital gives high-roller access to some of the Internet's hottest IPOs. But clicking for them is a grubber's game.

Would a Chase-Merrill merger make sense for consumers, or for the market? And does it even matter, since megabanks get to do whatever they want?

What's that sound? Urban-music titles are raising the volume at the newsstand -- and agitating to become the "Rolling Stone" of the future.