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The 1999 holiday shopping season may have boosted many online companies' hopes for continuing growth, but the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business says that such hopes may be unfounded.

Even if 1999 was the year of glitz, glamour and unprecedented consumer online spending, the tremendous movement in the business-to-business (B2B) sector may turn out to be 1999's most important story.

The battle lines have been drawn for one of the great e-commerce clashes of 2000. Proponents of online privacy and innovators of site-specific personalization are set to struggle with the big question: At what point does personalization become an invasion of an online shopper's privacy?

When it was reported yesterday that online shoppers have been forsaking pure-play e-tailers in favor of brick-and-click sites, it surely sent a shudder across the dot-com landscape.

City information and ticket vendor Ticketmaster Online-City Search (Nasdaq: TXCS) announced today that it has expanded its access to cultural offerings in about 1,500 cities across the United States by signing a marketing and distribution agreement with CultureFinder.com.

High-speed Internet provider US West (NYSE: USW) announced an agreement today with digital music retailer MCY Music World to deliver encrypted, streamed or digitally downloadable music and live concert broadcasts over the Internet.

A new report by investment banker Schroders shows that increased e-commerce competition and efficient Internet business models will push UK consumer prices down by 0.2 percent a year for the next three years.

VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) announced today that it has been selected by Web-based applications provider NetLedger to supply rackmount Linux servers and integration management services for the NetLedger infrastructure.

London-based online travel agent ebookers.com (Nasdaq: EBKR) has acquired Norwegian discount travel agency Geotours AS in a deal valued at approximately $1 million (US$).

With the new year upon us, America Online (NYSE: AOL) is claiming that its more than 20 million members rang up $2.5 billion (US$) in sales this holiday season, a total that more than doubles last year's figures.

Online shopping reached its peak during the week of December 6th through 12th, according to a Goldman Sachs / PC Data Online survey that was released today. Spending then fell from $1.25 billion (US$) to $495 million during Christmas week (December 20 - 26), as online visitors turned to greeting car...

Despite massive advertising campaigns undertaken by pure-play e-tailers during the holiday season, online shoppers gravitated toward brick-and-click sites, according to the latest figures from Media Metrix.

If you have ever received a desperate call from someone who needs you to wire money right away, you know how inconvenient it can be. Or if your son calls from college and needs tuition money transferred to his account, the necessary trip to the bank can be quite an interruption.

Just weeks after forming an alliance with America Online, retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores unveiled its revamped Web site on the first day of the new year.

Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS), which saw the number of shoppers on its network increase 450 percent during the 1999 holiday season, has announced that is taking a 14 percent stake in Internet Commerce Services Corp. (iCOMS) and is forming a strategic partnership to build both companies' e-commerce busi...