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Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) announced earnings on Thursday that beat estimates, but was nonetheless downgraded by half a dozen analysts who raised questions about the company's earnings and growth rate. ...

By 2005, 18 percent of all business-to-business (B2B) trade in Canada will be done online, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research ...

Online financial services provider E*Trade Group (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced Thursday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire online mortgage originator LoansDirect ...

The automotive industry is lagging far behind others in terms of e-business progress, according to a study released Wednesday by consulting firm KPMG ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office confirmed Wednesday that a Walt Disney Co. subsidiary has offered to pay bankrupt e-tailer Toysmart.com US$50,000 to destroy its customer database, including personal information about shoppers, shopping preferences and browser histories ...

Online grocer Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) warned Tuesday that its fourth-quarter revenue will fall short of expectations, but said that it anticipates a lower-than-expected loss per share ...

Adding more figures to what has become a blur of holiday projections and pronouncements, a preliminary report released Monday by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Shop.org shows that online revenues for the 2000 holiday season were up 76 percent over the previous year ...

Despite the economic downturn and a generally gloomy outlook for the dot-world, companies around the globe will increase their spending on business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces from US$2.6 billion in 2000 to $137.2 billion by 2005, according to new data from Jupiter Research. ...

Computer products e-tailer Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) said Monday that no credit card data was breached when its systems were broken into last month ...

A host of corporate titans including Microsoft, PepsiCo, DaimlerChrysler, and AT&T have signed a new protocol designed to eliminate some of the pitfalls of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce ...

Demonstrating that e-commerce blight is sweeping beyond e-tailers to claim casualties among the companies that serve them, e-commerce transactions services company CyberSource (Nasdaq: CYBS) announced Thursday that it is restructuring its operations and lowering fourth quarter revenue projections ...

Troubled toy e-tailer eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS) announced Wednesday that it is shutting down its European operations as of January 19th because of the "disappointing recent performance of the company as a whole" and poor market conditions. ...

Responding to pressure from anti-hate groups and concerned users, Yahoo! announced late Tuesday that beginning January 10th, it will ban auctions of Nazi artifacts and other items "that are associated with groups which promote or glorify hatred and violence." ...

In what could be the most optimistic in a flood of e-holiday sales estimates,a study released Tuesday by Goldman Sachs and PC Data Online shows thate-tailers managed to rack up almost US$10 billion during the just-concluded season ...

Twenty-two percent of Americans who bought gifts on the Internet in 1999 decided against buying online in 2000, according to a survey released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. ...

This week's decision by eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) to enforce a prohibition on offline deals between members has angered many users, sparking allegations that the Internet auction giant's stated goal of protecting its customers is disingenuous ...

While 2001 is expected to build upon"one of the hottest years ever" for tech mergers and acquisitions (M&A), a report released Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers indicates that potential buyers for technology companies will likely shy away from business-to-consumer (B2C) dot-coms. ...

Texas Attorney General John Cornyn said Wednesday that his office has filed suit to shut down a Virginia-based tobacco e-tailer, E-Commerce Today, that allegedly failed to take precautions to prevent the sale of tobacco products to Texas minors ...

Holiday shoppers more than doubled their online spending this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by Goldman Sachs and PC Data Online ...

Computer products e-tailer Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) said Friday that a hacker has breached its computer systems and may have gained access to its customer database ...