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By now, observers of the various e-commerce markets can see which business models work online and which do not ...

When money is being exchanged, chances are that somebody sometime is going to cheat. Unfortunately, that's the case whether the money is being spent for products, services or philanthropic causes ...

In the midst of our national tragedy, some important due dates are likely to get lost in the shuffle. Such as October 21st, the day the current U.S. ban on new Internet taxes is scheduled to expire ...

It has been said that as New York City goes, so goes the country. ...

No one in the dot-com world was pinning great hopes on venture capitalists before September 11th, and since our national tragedy, many believe such investors have all but disappeared ...

Two years ago, I bought a new car using the Internet in lieu of dealing with a high pressure salesperson ...

When they write the definitive history book about the evolution of electronic commerce, 2001 may emerge as a pivotal year in the industry's growth ...

As the days take us further from the horrific events of September 11th, it becomes clearer that the tech industries have lost some of their best and brightest. ...

In a normal time, in a normal place, with summer nearly ending, e-tailers would be bracing themselves for the annual nail-biting and teeth-grinding weeks that precede the holiday gift-buying season ...

Just as every American will forever remember where he or she was on September 11, 2001, the day may also be remembered as the greatest test for technology and the Internet ...

A few years ago a popular song asked, "How do you keep the music playing?" Owners of music file-sharing services and recording companies are now asking the same question, with a twist ...

If you lost 100,000 customers in the course of one fiscal year, as Internet-only banks have, what would you do? ...

Remember when the concept of a "paperless society" was all the rage? ...

The ever-expanding dot-com graveyard added a new name to its roster over the weekend. Flooz.com, the company that dealt in Internet-based currency and electronic gift certificates, quietly closed its virtual doors. Among its other difficulties, Flooz was, according to early reports, a victim of massive credit card fraud of at least US$300,000 ...

Aside from its obvious commercial potential, the greatest promise of e-commerce has always been its potential to be an all-inclusive forum. All of the interpersonal exchanges that seem to slight certain ethnic or minority groups offline were supposed to be less of a problem when doing business electronically, right? ...

The latest best friends in multichannel sales are Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Circuit City (NYSE: CC) ...

Throughout these pioneer days of e-commerce, the greatest challenge facing the industry has been creating and sustaining consumer need ...

Sometimes it seems that if e-commerce ultimately emerges victorious as a true contender in the mass market, it will do so in spite of extraordinary obstacles ...

You may never have heard of one Jim Geringer, but as governor of the great state of Wyoming, he is making some serious noise about taxing Internet purchases ...

Several months ago, industry observers were writing the epitaph for name-your-own-price e-tailer Priceline.com ...