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"I have not seen anything that indicates that one hasa leg up on the other," Giga Information Groupanalyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times,acknowledging the step-for-step battle raging betweenTravelocity.com and Expedia.com As in online travel, adversaries in the book...

"It would make sense for eBay to pursue PayPal," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm sure they wish they'd bought PayPal last [time] they had a chance. Now, they have to decide whether it's worth the current price." ...

"Companies are in digesting mode," Giga Information Group vice president Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times. "Enterprises acquired a lot of technology over the last two or three years. Right now, the appetite for going out and investing in even more just isn't there." ...

Company spokesperson Jonathan Rucket told the E-Commerce Times that the sites April 17th relaunch will be a relatively low-key affair announced mainly to trade publications. ...

Bob Guccione isn't a happy man ...

"There's really no such thing as one-stop comparison shopping," GartnerG2 research director Geri Spieler told the E-Commerce Times A number of sites -- with names like MySimon.com, PricingCentral.com and CoolShopping.com -- offer reviews, pricing and other information for a ra...

The postal increase is unlikely to change consumers'opinion, and will have "little effect at best" on the number of people choosing to pay bills online, Shevlintold the E-Commerce Times. "Cost is not much of a factor in a consumer's decision to pay bills online or not," Shevl...

Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times that investors' fears about slower growth in the online unit are justified given that AOL is the "growth star of the company." However, he added, "the stock is about more than AOL alone," a fact sometimes overlo...

Good news is hard to come by lately in Silicon Valley. It's out there. It's just a lot harder to find. And sometimes it requires an extra spin to make it clear that it is, in fact, good news. ...

I shudder to think of a world without Yahoo. But thecompany's recent spate of new revenue tacticsreeks of desperation ...

"You're not going to see it shoot up through thestratosphere," Bishop told the E-Commerce Times He said he expects to see 3 to 4 percent growth in techspending in the United States during 2002, with most of thatgrowth coming in the second half of the year.

GartnerG2 vice president and research director David Furlonger told the E-Commerce Times that the spate of mergers this week continues a long-standing trend in the online brokerage world. Ameritrade previously bought National Discount Brokers, and the Bank of Montreal bought ...

"Some sites have even more robust screening, but it generally takes longer for credit information to be cleared," Spieler told the E-Commerce Times After the site conducts its own fraud screen, the user's credit data goes to the bank that issued the credit card. On that end, S...

Often, management shakeups are nothing more than bodies being moved around, sometimes just for show, to let investors know that no one is asleep at the switch. ...

"Oracle is seen as being more CRM-focused and doesn't have as much on thecommerce side," Andrews told the E-Commerce Times. "Microsoft is consideredone of the early e-commerce pioneers that wasn't able to live up to the early promise." Both have honed their approaches over the...

"[Due to] the nature of the business, keeping its siteup and running 24/7 is more important to eBay than itis to, say, Amazon," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times In addition, site registrants were unable to accesseBay's "View Account" feature fo...

"That, in turn, is likely to influence and producegreater numbers of commercial transactions on theInternet," Pang told the E-Commerce Times ...

Analysts told the E-Commerce Times that the need for specialized service and attention has helped a number of providers -- large and small -- stake a solid claim in the e-commerce security market, even though some companies had a clear head start ...

"It's clearly a mechanism that is well suited to theInternet," eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told theE-Commerce Times. According to Pursglove, eBay's eventticket category is growing rapidly, and that growth isexpected to continue, both within eBay and on other sites In the fu...

In the United States, Internet-based music swapping has already had its heyday. Sure, it's still going on, pushed underground by lawsuits and enforcement actions. But never again will it enjoy the kind of glamorous prominence it enjoyed just a short while ago, when Napster was the coolest thing since eight-track tapes ...