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Traffic to retail Web sites ebbed in the final week of the holiday shoppingseason, according to statistics compiled by Media Metrix, providing furtherevidence that online shoppers completed their shopping early this year ...

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Amazon.com ranked as one of the top online retail sites in markets worldwide during November -- the only multinational brand to do so -- according to data released Thursday by Web measurement firm Media Metrix and its European affiliate, Jupiter MMXI ...

Although Internet advertising revenue during the third quarter experienced a 63 percent rise compared to the same period in 1999, earnings slid 6.5 percent below second quarter 2000 totals, according to a study released Wednesday by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

High-tech stocks continued to get slammed Wednesday after a batch of analyst downgrades and corporate earnings warnings ignited an investor selloff, toppling the major indices ...

Most online financial services have yet to gain a foothold among consumers, according to a study released Wednesday by business services firm Mercer Management Consulting ...

Educational toy e-tailer SmarterKids has narrowly edged out the powerhouse partnership ofToysrus.com and Amazon.com to secure the title of best online toy and game seller overall, according to Forrester Research rankings released Monday ...

Just one month after MP3.com brought to aclose its costly legal contest with industry giant Universal Music Group,the online music service has been hit by a copyright infringementlawsuit by Internet subscription site EMusic ...

Internet grocery service HomeGrocer.com has slashed roughly 100 jobs -- the second workforce reduction in recent months -- as it continues consolidating operations with Webvan Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBVN). Webvan purchased HomeGrocer for US$1.2 billion earlier this year ...

Despite spending almost US$500 million over the past 12 months to improve their customer service operations, e-tailers could face a loss of some $11 billion in sales by the end of this year,according to a report released Friday by market analysis firm Datamonitor ...

More than half of the roughly 46 million adults in the UK have Web access and nearly a third of them are frequent online users, according to new data released Wednesday by ForresterResearch. ...

Despite the fact that high-speed Internet access has yetto take a firm hold with the vast majority of the wired public, measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatingsreported Tuesday that streaming media consumption soared 65 percent over the past year ...

CenterSpan Communications Corp.(Nasdaq: CSCC) was given the green light to purchase the assets of Internetentertainment firm Scour, Inc. Tuesday by a Los Angeles bankruptcy court ...

Possibly indicating a consumer cooldown in the e-tail arena, onlinespending during the week following the Thanksgiving holiday topped out at about US$1.3billion -- representing just a 50 percent increase over last year's figures for the same period -- according to a new study released Monday by Goldman Sachs and PC Data ...

According to a study released Monday by business services firm Ernst & Young, Canadian consumers plan to spend 14 percent of their holiday shopping funds online -- a 100 percent increase over last year's level but still lessthan half as much as their American counterparts ...

Online pharmacyDrugstore.com continues to narrowly outpaceniche competitor PlanetRx (now XMediapartners.com)and retains the No. 1 spot among Internet healthretailers, according to new rankingsreleased by Forrester Research ...

Amazon.comhas inked a content agreement with venerable product-testing organization ConsumersUnion -- the publisher of Consumer Reports and Consumer Reports Online -- that will allow the Internet giant to publish "unbiased" product advice summaries, merchandise information and ratings on its site ...

Just one day after women's online network Oxygen Media said it was paring down itsworkforce and consolidating operations, niche competitor Women.com announced that it is laying off 25 percent of its workforce in a bid to trim expenses and achieve profitability ...

The civil rights group that filed a discrimination lawsuit against onlinedelivery service Kozmo.com earlierthis year announced Tuesday that it will not pursue the suit as part of aagreement brokered by the parties to increase Internet access inunderserved communities in Washington, D.C ...

Music and video retailer Tower Records has scored the latest victory for brick-and-click stores on the Net, edging out Internet heavyweight Amazon.com as the top online music seller in Forrester Research rankings released Tuesday ...