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"The shakeout is not over," Gartner Group researchdirector Geri Spieler told the E-Commerce Times."Unless pure-play e-tailers like Ashford.com, Gloss.com, and othersingle-line players get the attention of the consumer,they will have a difficult time surviving." Effective mark...

The $6.75 billion price tag is not too high considering the potentialbenefits, said Rob Lancaster, Internet market strategies analyst at YankeeGroup. "The upside for AOL is huge," Lancaster told the E-Commerce Times Europe has been a focal point for AOL. Most of the company's ...

"It's not a bad number, but it's nowhere near the growth of last year or the year before," Iventosh-James told the E-Commerce Times. "People pulled back on spending overall and at the same time, the growth of online spending has started to reach the saturation point." ...

"Online grocery sales will grow much faster than brick-and-mortar stores' sales, even without the Webvans of the world," Jupiter Media Metrix senior analyst Ken Cassar told the E-Commerce Times. ...

E*Trade "did pretty well in terms of diversifying and preparing for hardtimes," Jupiter Media Metrix senior analyst Robert Sterling told the E-Commerce Times. Fees from ATM transactions and the establishment of "E*Trade Zones" or service centers in select Target (NYSE: TGT) r...

The post-holiday time is always a quiet one. There is a natural letdown as the New Year begins and people quietly work their way back into their workaday routines ...

Until recently, e-commerce was an exercise in trial and error, a hit-or-miss playing field in which all newcomers were welcome, but where few stuck around for long ...

There's something ominous about the way that TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq: TMPW), parent of Monster.com, stepped aside to allow Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to take control of HotJobs.com ...

Had it never existed, however, life on the Web could be drastically different. Experts tell the E-Commerce Times that no company has been able to out-do EBay at its own game, but many have adopted the site's business model -- and in some cases, copied it outright -- to carve out their own niches...

"[E-marketplace providers] assumed that mostpurchasing is done based on price alone," Yankee Groupsenior analyst Jon Derome told the E-Commerce Times."This is not the case in the business world. Thousandsof factors are involved in purchasing decisions." Whether through incumbe...

Ours is an economy of hype. Vendors produce it.Infomediaries distribute it. And unfortunately,corporations and consumers often buy it ...

"One of the key highlights of e-commerce in 2001 was the weeding out of the weaker players," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "While the weakest are already gone, I think some more may still fail in 2002." However, even those dot-coms that did ...

EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that as of Thursday, approximately $7 million has been raised through the benefit auction. That includes a $1 million donation that EBay made to launch the charity effort in mid-September. Pursglove said items are no lo...

SBC and Softbank did not give a price for their planned transaction.Softbank America spokesman Steve Murray told the E-Commerce Times that thevalue was "pretty close" to the market value of Yahoo! shares. In earlytrading Friday, the shares were up 88 cents to $18.65 ...

By the time the dust settles from New Year's Day, it may well be gut-check time for the e-commerce industry. ...

"It wasn't just a shift to profits," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. "It was a turn toward multichannel selling and profits at the same time, for the most part." Many e-commerce firms found they had to downsize in order to make it happ...

"Most of the weakest firms are already gone," David Kathman, a stock analyst with Morningstar.com, told the E-Commerce Times. "But I think some more may still fall in 2002." But predicting where the bulk of the shakeout will occur over the next 12 months is a bit more tricky....

"Retailers like Rx.com and PlanetRx.com thought they could steal away someof the mail-order prescription business and be viewed from an insuranceperspective as a mail-order provider," Forrester analyst Elizabeth Boehmtold the E-Commerce Times. "They couldn't take advantage of that, so it was much more challenging to offer the convenience play to consumers that mail order could offer."

While the index, which measures 500 Web sites, is down a tenth of a percent from the previous week, "from a statistical point of view, that's about the same," Jupiter analyst Jared Blank told the E-Commerce Times ...

Among all the entrepreneurs in the e-commerce industries, standing firmly in the middle of the post-September 11th commercial fray is one Richard S. Braddock ...