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Just how difficult it is to reach liquidity is something that many exchanges are beginning to realize, now that they have been in operation for a couple of years, Brandel said. Much of the early work, he told the E-Commerce Times, "was based on pre-IPO ambitions and trying to define themselves."

Retail is like football. Even though the game has four quarters of equal length, how a team plays in the final 15 minutes often has a lot more to do with the outcome. So too in retail sales, where the last 12 weeks of the year do more to determine the final score than any other timeframe on the calendar. ...

"I never thought I'd be saying this a year ago, but I think Priceline has some potential," Morningstar's David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They've stabilized the company pretty well, and it's actually fairly reasonably priced now." Pricelineshares closed at US$4.55 on ...

"Marketers must balance how much they are paying withhow much traffic will result and what type of customerthey will be reaching," Forrester Research analystShar Van Boskirk told the E-Commerce Times This kind of diligent channel evaluation should benothing new for today's cos...

Most e-commerce sellers and go-betweens have but one wish this holiday season: revenue ...

With industry analysts telling us that e-shopping is already brisk, and online holiday sales are projected to be high, it would seem e-tailing is on the upswing ...

"We're just increasingly optimistic about our earnings moving forward," E*Trade spokesman John Metaxas told the E-Commerce Times. The company's strategy of diversifying beyond its online trading roots "has contributed a lot to our optimism," he said....

The prospect of "automating the entire purchasing process seems dim in the near future," Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Jon Gibs told the E-Commerce Times. "Automating the supply chain after the deal is made is more likely." Often mistakenly equated to the Internet, the World Wi...

"People will use the Web to do sort of an initial search to see what the market looks like," Bell told the E-Commerce Times, but "they'll still, at the end of the day, use a broker." Companies that try to "Webify" the process of finding and buying a home "have a tough row to h...

"The emergence of multichannel retailing's importance to e-commerce began in earnest during the 2000 holiday season and its importance in 2001 has only increased, partly in response to the events of September 11," Yankee Group program manager of e-commerce strategies Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times...

Those of us who discovered the relative ease of booking travel online were primed and ready for the debut of Orbitz this past summer ...

Pop quiz time. Harris Interactive reported this week that only 3 percent of consumers bother to read online privacy policies when they visit new sites. ...

"They need to assess what it is they're selling, how they're selling to consumers now, and plan for the one or two or three imperatives that suit their business," David Schehr, research director for Gartner's G2 division, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's not a one-size-fits-all game."

Smith told the E-Commerce Times that "Egghead is a very well-known and well-respected brand, particularly in the Northwest." In fact, Egghead opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Amazon's hometown of Seattle, Washington, in 1984. "They have a very tech-savvy customer ba...

"Retailers realize their customers have come to expect to be able to usethe Web to help them make purchase decisions," Schehr told the E-Commerce Times. "Anything that detracts from that, by slowing the process down, is probably not helping." ...

Anyone who's ever been to Norwalk, Connecticut knows it's a pretty good place to lie low for a while. ...

If you build it -- and tell enough people about it --they will come, and hopefully buy ...

"The main problem is it's not a very compelling proposition for the consumer," Yankee Group mobile analyst Adam Zawel told the E-Commerce Times. "There needs to be a reason to make a purchase using your wireless device. No one's going to bother with an inferior experience on wireless when they can do it on their home PC."

Like millions of other American consumers, I spent several hours in a shopping mall the day after Thanksgiving. ...

Though other brick-and-mortar retailers are doing well online, upscaleretailers have had a hard time selling high-end items, such as designer clothesover the Internet, Morningstar analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. Even Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), the biggest onl...