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eBay CEO Meg Whitman is smiling. And why not? The Internet powerhouse that she leads just reported strong third-quarter earnings. But something tells me that she'd be smiling even if eBay had stumbled badly ...

The latest release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 should have been the perfect opportunity for e-tailers to show consumers they are serious about online privacy. Instead, it may turn out to be just the opposite ...

"It's very hard for me to see how they could make it to 2004 as a standalone company, given their current burn rate and slowing growth," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "Their best chance for survival is probably some sort of partnership with a brick-and-mortar chain."

In a recent interview, chief marketing officer Nanci Caldwell, who came to the company six months ago after 19 years at Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP), told the E-Commerce Times that the Web is an ideal way for PeopleSoft to advertise, since the company's products are aimed at helping businesses manage their customers and operations online.

"As the Internet becomes more mainstream, many users are not early-adopters," Forrester Research senior analyst Paul Sonderegger told the E-Commerce Times. "Some are downright hostile towards technology and care about finding the perfect rug, not about bellsand whistles." Acco...

Ultimately, such promotions were "not really a way (for e-tailers) to build loyalty," Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Heather Dougherty told the E-Commerce Times. As a result, online businesses have been forced to rethink their promotion strategies, according to Dougherty and Fo...

Remember the phrase, "Content is king"? ...

Just days ago in this column I was celebrating the manner in which the Old Economy and the New Economy had found a common ground for online music. ...

Not long ago, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) issued a press release arguing that its MSN network had leapfrogged Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to become the most popular family of Web sites on the Internet. ...

Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times that the real value in both deals lay in the e-tailer's customer lists. "This shows the power and value of customer information," Kelley said at the time. "Yes, they get the technology and the expertise o...

Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told theE-Commerce Times that the eToys name is "fairly well-known" and is likely to be remembered when shoppers head into the holiday buying season. However, Kathman added that the resurrected eToys is not likely tooutdo Amazon.com (Nasd...

In the first few weeks after the terrorist attacks on the United States, the dot-com world scratched its collective head, wondering if the economy would ever stabilize ...

"With the way the market changes so quickly these days, it is very difficult to speculate on what might or might not happen," spokesperson Jim Bak of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) told the E-Commerce Times. "What is sound advice today, may not be so sound tomorrow." Even so, hope i...

"When you think of all that went on during September, it's amazing that the decline was as slight as it was," Forrester analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. "It really shows the resiliency of e-commerce in uncertain economic and social times." In a report also...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. ...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. ...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. ...

First Call predicts that consumer Internet company earnings will be 37 percentbetter than they were last year, research director Chuck Hill told the E-Commerce Times. Of the 47 companies in the index First Call tracks, 20 are expected to be profitable this quarter, one is for...

By now, observers of the various e-commerce markets can see which business models work online and which do not ...

For returns like that, "go to Vegas," U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Jon Ekoniak told the E-Commerce Times. In contrast to a few years ago, when a holding in a stock like Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) might have increased more than 1,000 percent, "most investors r...