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"Considering the growth we've seen in the past, it's not a bad growth rate," Yankee director Paul Hughes told the E-Commerce Times Hughes said that banks, credit-card companies and others have been pushing hard to get customers to pay their bills online, offering incentives li...

When money is being exchanged, chances are that somebody sometime is going to cheat. Unfortunately, that's the case whether the money is being spent for products, services or philanthropic causes ...

Some weeks back, a Webvan stock certificate sold for US$500. The sale caused a minor stir, since the stock itself was worth something like 14 cents at the time. But it also led to widespread speculation that mementos of the dot-com era would soon become valuable items. ...

Product information can be easily moved to all appropriate decision-makers, Derome told the E-Commerce Times, thanks to the increase in processing power for online computer models, electronic representations and new viewing technologies From procurement and marketing to produc...

"We have always believed that our business and the success of the eBay community of users is best served by one seamless global brand," eBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday. "The decision to speed up the integration will likely result in dropping the Half brand altogether in favor of an identity directly linked to eBay."

In the midst of our national tragedy, some important due dates are likely to get lost in the shuffle. Such as October 21st, the day the current U.S. ban on new Internet taxes is scheduled to expire ...

Online shoppers are like racehorses. They're on track, but they spook easily ...

"We turned a profit on this business early this calendar year and we just wanted to wait a while to make sure of its ongoing profitability," Priceline chairman and chief executive officer Richard S. Braddock told the E-Commerce Times Braddock said that as far as downside or ri...

It has been said that as New York City goes, so goes the country. ...

"There are more people waiting in queue," Boston University professor of computer science and e-commerce Vijay Kanabar told the E-Commerce Times. "But students who know the right stuff like Extensible Markup Language (XML), Active Server Pages (ASP), and Java Server Pages (JSP) are getting jobs."

"We saw flat budgets this year," Forrester Research analyst Jennifer Chew told the E-Commerce Times. Forrester is polling companies to see whether they have cut back even further on spending, she said ...

E-tail site Shopping.com will cease to exist as a standalone site on the AltaVista network because e-commerce shopping is "no longer part of [Alta Vista's] focus," AltaVista spokesperson David Emmanuel told the E-Commerce Times on Monday. "We are focusing on search functions ...

"Despite the fact that a lot of other companies in the industry are experiencing difficulties, [eBay] seems to be holding up very well," Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown analyst Jeetil Patel told the E-Commerce Times. eBay is "starting off the fourth quarter on a strong note" and ha...

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, "the environment has changed a little bit, but we're still going in the same direction," U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Jon Ekoniak told the E-Commerce Times. "The big software providers are going to get bigger."

The good news out of Palo Alto, California late last week was that a technology company -- an Internet company at that -- had filed for an initial public offering. ...

"All of these deals are positive news for the companies involved, but they're not enough to change my investment opinion on Amazon," W.R. Hambrecht & Co. analyst KristineKoerber told the E-Commerce Times. "Whenever you're involved in revenue sharing, you're only getting a small piece of the action."

It's been promised for a while now. The personalized Web, the one that hits you right where you live. ...

Ever wished customers would roll out the virtual red carpet for your new product announcements? Want to create excitement among vendors and consumers? A little buzz could go a long way toward selling many types of products ...

An agent named Karen in the consumer assistance department of the California Attorney General's Office told the E-Commerce Times to use its Web site to file an online inquiry and complaint to report damages caused by spam, saying that the complaint form was used "to develop information about patterns of activity by specific companies." ...

"eBay has always respected the intellectual property issues of third parties," Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times. "We have made that clear to Amazon. At this time we will continue to explore ways to resolve this dispute and remain confident that this will happen." Attempts ...