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Brick-and-mortar pet superstore Petco announced Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of its e-tail affiliate Petopia for an undisclosed price ...

Americans spent US$1.3 billion online during the week surrounding Thanksgiving, an increase of 140 percent over the same week in 1999, according to a survey released Tuesday by Goldman Sachs and PC Data ...

Defunct e-tailer Pets.com announced Monday that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its domain name and related trademarks to rival PetSmart.com ...

British law enforcement agencies are seeking the right to log every e-mail and phone call within the United Kingdom, according to a report by the deputy director general of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) ...

Enticed by low costs and enhanced targeting options, more retailers are choosing to spend the majority of their holiday advertising dollars online, according to a pair of studies released Monday ...

Online industry-sponsored marketplaces (ISMs) are going live faster than expected, according to a study released Friday by Jupiter Research ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Thursday that it has signed contracts with three interactive TV companies as part of its bid to develop the world of television-based e-commerce ...

Jay Walker, founder of embattled e-tailer Priceline, is under investigation by the Connecticut Attorney General for alleged violations of state and federal employment law by his privately held company Walker Digital ...

A record number of U.S. shoppers visited e-tail Web sites last week, according to numbers released Thursday by Internet measurement firm Media Metrix. ...

In a bid to achieve profitability, e-tailers slashed theirspending on offline advertising during the third quarter and,as a result, cut their customer acquisition costs in half,according to a study released Tuesday by Shop.org and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) ...

More than 20 of the world's leading high-tech companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Commerce One and Intel, announced Wednesday they have banded together to form a think tank that hopes to address implementation challenges for e-business ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday it has reached a settlement with two Connecticut residents who operated what the FTC called an "elaborate" Internet pyramid scheme that conned thousands of consumers out of more than US$430,000 ...

For the sixth month in a row, dot-com layoffs have reached record numbers, according to a report released Monday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC) ...

European shoppers will spend US$2.2 billion online this holiday season, a figure that would nearly match total European online sales in all of 1999, according to a report released Monday by Forrester Research ...

Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries gathered in Singapore on Friday to sign the e-ASEAN accord, urging member nations to make e-commerce safe and effective for consumers, to establish high-speed Internet connections, and to approve digital signature legislation. ...

Online retailers are providing better customer service than theirbrick-and-mortar counterparts,according to the third quarter American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)released Monday. ...

Specialized Web travel sites that offer in-depth information on selected destinations are doing a better job of meeting consumers' needs than their mega-site counterparts, according to a new survey of 6,580 travel site visitors by cPulse ...

Online subscription music service EMusic unveiled a new initiative on Tuesday that it said will "prevent the illegal distribution of EMusic songs" by users of Napster's controversial music file-swapping service ...

Canadian Tire, the venerable superstore that sells automotive products, sporting goods and other consumer goods, has launched its long-awaited e-commerce site to much fanfare -- and criticism ...

With an eye toward staving off a repeat of the holiday fulfillment woes that left thousands of online shoppers without gifts last Christmas morning, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned e-tailers against making promises they cannot keep ...