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China's Internet and technology stocks soared yesterday following news of a U.S.-China trade deal that may pave the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...

Consumers have long felt victimized by new car sales teams that manipulate, deceive and cajole buyers into one-sided deals. Now, as new cars sales rush online, the consumer stands to fight back through new programs developed by priceline, Ford and CarPrices.com ...

Online brokers Charles Schwab, Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) and TD Waterhouse (NYSE: TWE) announced today that they will join three prominent Internet venture capital firms to open an Internet-based investment bank by early next year ...

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, I never would have predicted that Internet usage would become completely mainstream by November 1999 ...

Survey results from PC Data Online and Ernst & Young indicate that Internet buying increased in October for the second consecutive month, removing any doubt that the 1999 holiday gift-buying season has arrived ...

Columnist Rob Spiegel concurs: I don't think that Amazon cares as much about operating losses as it does about its brand. The company is not bleeding all this red ink to beat CDNow or even barnesandnoble.com. I think that Amazon is chasing Wal-Mart and Sears so that it may become one of the world's leading retailers.

Just as ancient ships were misguided to a rocky death, the seductive siren song of Internet research can muddy the waters of e-commerce ...

Unfazed by impending restrictions to foreign investment, Boston, Massachusetts-based International Data Group (IDG) announced today that it will pour much of a $100 million (US$) risk fund into Internet sites in China ...

The e-commerce boom has turned countless caffeine-addled GenXers into near billionaires. One day, they're running up cash advances on 17 different credit cards while setting up shop in mom and dad's basement, the next day, they're meeting with Benchmark and Sequoia, securing the capital to race down IPO road ...

Rainbow Technologies (Nasdaq: RNBO), a provider of security systems for the Internet and e-commerce, announced today that it has forged a joint venture with Goldensoft Co. Ltd of Beijing to create a channel for domestic and international companies to market software in China while minimizing the risk of software piracy ...

With Halloween behind us, holiday shopping is about to break. Marketing managers ate-tailers around the world are wringing their hands and watching their click-throughs. Careers across hundreds of e-tailers may hang in the balance. ...

The daily barrage of e-commerce developments can make one dizzy, as the entire developed world embraces the Internet at a fever pitch ...

Internet heavyweight Yahoo! announced agreements today with broadband Internet access providers Covad (Nasdaq: COVD) and NorthPoint (Nasdaq: NPNT) that will attempt to encourage Internet users to adopt DSL (digital subscriber line) broadband access ...

Boston, Massachusetts-based Inc. Magazine announced today that it has launched a Web site that is designed to deliver management resources to small business owners. As part of a cross-marketing agreement, the new portal will showcase content from the E-Commerce Times, and the E-Commerce Times will feature Inc.com material in its Small Business Advisor section...

How will you do your Internet holiday shopping in 2002? Will it be sitting in your living room, remote control in hand? ...

IBM and Internet service provider Conxion Corporation announced today that 13 dot-com companies have joined the first class of its joint incubator program scheduled for launch on November 16th ...

As we wait for U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to announce his factual findings in the Microsoft antitrust case, it seems almost peculiar that Microsoft could be viewed as a monopoly. The whole concept of antitrust laws applying to Internet companies seems almost silly now that a year has passed in the Justice Department's case ...

What does it take for an offline company to successfully launch an e-commerce site? ...

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced today that it has acquired Entropic, Inc., a provider of software and toolkits for speech recognition, in an effort to integrate speech interaction technology into the Windows platform ...

After a year of fits and starts with its Web strategy, Toys "R" Us has announced partnership agreements with LinkShare, Tutornet.com and employeesavings.com that the company hopes will resurrect its flagging e-commerce efforts ...