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"When you take into account what happened in the world, it's a pretty good quarter," Mark Marcon, an analyst with Wachovia Securities, an affiliate of Wachovia Bank, the fourth largest financial holding company in the U.S., told the E-Commerce Times. "The growth in Monster offset a lot of slowdown elsewhere." ...

In Part 2 of this special report, the E-Commerce Times continues to examine why an increase in taxation of online sales is all but inevitable To return to Part 1, click here....

Despite concerns from federal officials that taxes will stifle growth of the Internet economy, industry and government observers told the E-Commerce Times that an end to a moratorium on certain Internet taxes will not mean the extinction of e-commerce A federal moratorium on n...

A word of advice to small U.S. e-tailers: what works for EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) might not work for you ...

"Not having a credit card does make it an issue for teenagers," Nielsen//NetRatings analyst Kim Pillon told the E-Commerce Times. "The social aspect of shopping and e-commerce (also) doesn't mesh well together. Teens prefer to go to the mall. E-commerce isn't high on their list of something preferred to do."

Much of the buzz around office water coolers lately has to do with the government's new powers to follow our every move on the Internet. ...

It's been three months since Webvan delivered its last order. But still the dead dot-com keeps haunting e-commerce, even as its casket is lowered into the ground. ...

Analysts told the E-Commerce Times that businesses are using a number of viral methods, ranging from subtle community-building initiatives to interactive online advertising games, to generate positive communication about their wares -- talk they hope will translate into sales and revenues.

The Internet, once considered to be populated predominantly by men, is in reality an equal opportunity channel ...

Another survey finding that companies should keep in mind, Schehr told theE-Commerce Times, is that many consumers decide from which places they will buy using offline information. Catalogs, he said, are a big draw for many consumers Schehr also said retailers should display t...

Continental Airlines sent shudders through the online travel world by saying it would no longer pay commissions for fares sold on certain Web sites. ...

"Treat your e-business like any business startup," Al Napier, a professor of e-business and entrepreneurship at Rice University, told the E-Commerce Times. "You've got to have a solution to somebody's problem or an answer to their opportunity." Napier and other experts say mos...

"Everyone's suffering right now," David Alschuler, senior vice president of the e-business and enterprise applications division at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's affecting every vendor. But really the ones with smaller market shares and less liquidity are going to have trouble surviving."

"Teenagers are 10-, 11- and 12-year-old kids before they become teens, and companies that establish a bond with kids through interactive Web sites and engaging online experiences will have a much better chance for success," Yankee Group analyst Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times...

For those who have tried to re-finance their homes in the past few weeks, the routine goes something like this: Hurry up and wait ...

As if the shipping riddle weren't hard enough for e-tailers to solve, the world has added an almost unimaginable degree of difficulty in recent days. ...

Tim Meadows, NetRatings' founder and executive vice president of products, told the E-Commerce Times that a single standard is critical for attracting top quality ad buyers to the Web "When you look at other media, especially television and radio, it's typical to have a single...

In fact, president and chief executive officer Kal Raman told the E-Commerce Times this week that his company refuses to accept the financial medicine that skeptical observers are prescribing: merger with or acquisition by a brick-and-mortar company Industry analysts can find ...

At this time of year, the main topic among e-commerce pundits and industry observers is which online companies will emerge victorious during the coming holiday season ...

"I believe it's fair to say that catalogers have hit the cover off the ball," Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) senior analyst Ken Cassar told the E-Commerce Times. "They have been able to protect their market share -- and possibly even expand their market share -- and they haven't lost money while they're at it."