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"The big challenge is drawing traffic to their site," Meta Group senior program director Gene Alvarez told the E-Commerce Times ...

"Homestore has come clean on prior problems, and that'sthe first step to a healing process. I'm hopeful forthem, but I wouldn't necessarily put investors' moneyin them," Salomon Smith Barney analyst Lanny Bakertold the E-Commerce Times ...

"This is obviously a move by EBay to take more direct control of Billpoint, presumably so they can more easily make aggressive moves against PayPal," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "The timing was no coincidence." ...

"Customer acquisition only really happens with arepeat purchase, not a first-time, heavily discountedpurchase," Forrester Research analyst James Crawfordtold the E-Commerce Times Bellwether companies like Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN),EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and ...

Someday I hope to understand how the U.S. government decides which mergers are allowed to go forward and which get stopped dead in their tracks. ...

"We're now in a period of nice, reasonable, organic growth for e-commerce," David Schehr, research director at GartnerG2, told the E-Commerce Times. "And that's going to continue as more and more businesses learn how to use the Web." ...

"Everything is getting a lot more scrutiny due to Enron," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "Any kind of accounting question really gets people's attention." ...

In Part 2 of this interview, Carat Interactive vice president and media director Mark Stephens talks with the E-Commerce Times about how new Internet ad sizes and formats will transform the industry Click here to return to Part 1....

Those who have watched e-commerce grow up probably had a lump in their throats when they read the news that research firm IDC predicted worldwide online sales will reach the US$1 trillion mark in 2002. ...

Stephens, formerly of Lot21, recently spoke with theE-Commerce Times about the untapped potential ofinteractive advertising and the future of integratedmarketing ...

The Enron bankruptcy -- all US$60 billion of it, complete with political shockwaves and thousands of evaporating pensions -- should put the dot-com devastation into perspective. And for most of us, it probably does. After all, even e-commerce flameout champion Webvan couldnt nose over the $1 billion bar. ...

The proposal could be "a significant problem" for U.S.e-tailers, Gartner analyst French Caldwell told the E-Commerce Times. It also could cause international conflict. Gartnerpreviously has predicted that differences between EU andU.S. tax laws will become a major source of f...

"They get more of their percentage from non-airline purchases like hotel, cars, vacation packages, et cetera, which tend to be more profitable then airline tickets, and obviously airline travel has been down," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "Hotels have been down a lot less and recovered almost totally from September 11th."

Sometimes, as an observer, one can tell from theoutset whether or not a marriage is made in heaven ...

"They really could use a boost in that area," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm still a bit skeptical about their ability to make ETK more than a small, niche part of their business. This wedding registry may help boost sales a bit, but we'll have to see."

"Relaunching just before holidays seems to have really paid off," Kim Pillon, an Internet analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings, told the E-Commerce Times. In fact, during November and December, 44 percent of all of KB Toys' traffic was generated by the EToys Web site, a figure that decreased to 19 percent in January.

More and more airline tickets are being sold online.Eventually, the lion's share will be sold not bythird-party sites like Travelocity and Expedia but bythe airlines themselves. ...

"Once people get over the security andprivacy hiccups, as well as other problems that arenot directly related to e-commerce, and have access towider product offerings, e-commerce will become aswidespread as offline commerce," Carol Glasheen,program vice president of IDC's Global ResearchOrganization, told the E-Commerce Times...

"A well-integrated system should be designed around the company's needs andobjectives, not pulled off the shelf and forced upon it as is," theYankee Group's Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times ...

EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that the change reflects a modification of the timetable for integration, not a change of focus. "The goal remains the same and the integration process continues," Pursglove said. "Our users have been telling us that a ...