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Despite the deaths of dozens of dot-coms and the stock market plunge that left many e-tailers gasping for air, U.S. consumers continue to shop online because they like the convenience and control it offers, according to a report issued Monday by Forrester Research ...

Even the backing of most valuable players Michael Jordan, John Elway and Wayne Gretzky could not help sports e-tailer MVP.com in the rough and tumble world of e-commerce. ...

Three financial giants announced Monday that they have partnered to create DealerTrack, a Web-based system for car dealers to use when processing consumer auto loans. ...

In a new report released Thursday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warned Internet brokerage firms to improve their overall business practices, including online trading technology and advertising, to ensure that consumers are adequately protected and informed ...

A sting operation started last fall led the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to file civil lawsuits against two software pirates Thursday ...

First, the trend for online auctioneers was instituting and raising listing fees. Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon.com all charge users to offer items on their sites. Now Amazon has upped the ante ...

Despite a slight dip in revenue from the previous quarter, online investment firm E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) on Wednesday reported a profit from ongoing operations in the first quarter of fiscal 2001, beating analyst estimates by a penny per share ...

Although the Silicon Valley Better Business Bureau hit online payment service PayPal with an unsatisfactory rating Wednesday, the company is working hard to improve its customer service, according to representatives from both the BBB and the company ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced Tuesday a new version of its WebSphere e-commerce software, which is intended to lower the financial and communication hurdles of international e-commerce sales ...

Despite Yahoo's decision three weeks ago to end auctions of Nazi artifacts on its Web site, a group of concentration camp survivors has sued Yahoo! chairman and chief executive officer Tim Koogle in France over the controversial auctions, according to published reports ...

The good news about the recent e-commerce holiday season is that e-tailers succeeded in attracting more customers. The bad news is that a growing number of online shoppers went away unsatisfied ...

Following the announcement of staff layoffs and an executive departure last week, Drugstore.com(Nasdaq: DSCM) on Monday reported a narrower than expected loss for the fourth quarter and that net sales for the fourth quarter of 2000 topped sales figures for all of 1999. ...

Web portal AltaVista announced Thursday that it is laying off 200 employees, or 25 percent of its workforce ...

Driven largely by business-to-business (B2B) transactions, e-commerce in Latin America is set to grow from US$3.6 billion in 2000 to $66.5 billion in 2004, according to a report released Thursday by eMarketer ...

A California judge dismissed a US$100 million class action lawsuit against eBay on Thursday, ruling that the online auction house is not liable for the sale of phony sports memorabilia on its Web site ...

A report released Wednesday by consulting firm Ernst & Young predicts that Australian e-commerce will grow from US$3.1 billion in 2000 to $39 billion in 2004. The number of e-shoppers is also set to explode, growing from 2.2 million in 2000 to 5.84 million in 2004 ...

In a bid to reduce costs and eventually obtain profits, NBC Internet (Nasdaq: NBCI) announced Thursday that it is cutting 150 jobs, or approximately 30 percent of its workforce. ...

Amid speculation that troubled e-tailer eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS) may be close to finding a buyer, shares in the company jumped from 19 cents per share Tuesday morning to 59 cents by the closing bell ...

Just two weeks after lowering its fourth quarter earnings estimates, e-commerce software company Intershop Communications AG (Nasdaq: ISHP) announced Monday the eliminationabout 80 positions within its U.S.-based operations as part of a corporate restructuring ...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Thursday that his state has filed a suit for alleged labor law violations against Walker Digital, the technology company that owns the rights to the "name-your-price" software used by e-tailer Priceline.com ...