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If we chronicle the evolution of electronic commerce via the headlines, the conventional wisdom is that online privacy is Job One ...

As the Napster phenomenon proves, the change has already occurred in music, and "it's pretty much here in video," O'Neil told the E-Commerce Times. O'Neil pointed to the new movie "Planet of the Apes," which opened in theaters July 27th. The day before it opened, he said, "yo...

As it turns out, the high-tech funding desert does have more than one oasis. In this article, the first of a multi-part series, the E-Commerce Times takes a look at two areas of the Internet that are getting funded -- travel and entertainment service sites -- and why they are succeeding.

"We thought that term life insurance was a simple product that we could test and use as a benchmark for other products," CFA director of insurance Bob Hunter told the E-Commerce Times. "And what we found is that consumers had better shop around to get the best price." The CFA ...

Of everything e-commerce participants have learned so far, one rather retro lesson has taken on new meaning: ...

eBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that the Internet auctioneer has not yet seen the complaint. Amazon stock closed Wednesday at $12.50, off a 52-week high of $49.62.

"The turnaround seems to have been effective in righting the company for profitability," Michael Legg, who follows Priceline for Jefferies & Co., told the E-Commerce Times ...

It appears there is a whole lot of window surfing going on at e-tail Web sites and not enough buying ...

"It's a reasonable price they're paying," Morningstar.com analyst Harry Milling told the E-Commerce Times. "I don't think it's a home run, but it will boost growth." Omaha, Nebraska-based Ameritrade said the agreement would help boost its revenue by $67 million and increase it...

"We've had a number of cases of users writing in to inquire about the connection between eBay and BidBay," Jay Monahan, eBay's associate general counsel for intellectual property, told the E-Commerce Times. The suit was filed now because BidBay has "recently made the site loo...

Memo to online advertisers: Keep pushing the envelope, as long as it's in the right direction ...

Scott Anderson, Sun's director of eMarketing, recently talked with the E-Commerce Timesabout how Sun's online marketing efforts leverage the company's vision of technologyworking for the consumer, rather than the other way around ECT: What advertising advantages does the Inter...

Scott Anderson, Sun's director of eMarketing, recently talked with the E-Commerce Times about how Sun's online marketing efforts leverage the company's vision of technology working for the consumer, rather than the other way around. To return to Part 1 of the interview, pleas...

"As more large companies see online auctions as viable ways to liquidate more merchandise, services like those from ChannelAdvisor will become even more needed in the future," Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Jared Blank told the E-Commerce Times ...

"That inherently corrupts the analyst," Coffee told the E-Commerce Times Analysts are "under a lot of pressure" to please client companies, agreedKaren Nelson, assistant professor of accounting at Stanford University. As aresult, analysts may not be providing objective analysi...

"I expect no significant contribution to either revenue or earnings for several more quarters," Nichols told the E-Commerce Times Nichols added that he also believes Yahoo! will have a tough time competing against P2P market leader PayPal and new competitors such as Citibank.

Some saw it as the greatest test of middle America's potential to shift its collective buying behavior online when Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Kmart (NYSE: KM) debuted splashy Web sites. ...

"I think the decline suggests that we are in the latter phase of the shakeout," CGC chief executive officer John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "The companies that are left are not insignificant, although still struggling to be profitable." In January 2001, there wer...

"We're making these (packages) more to be off-the-shelf services," IBM program director of application hosting services Paul Boulay told the E-Commerce Times. "You determine, based on your customer engagements, what the requirements are for the packaged options." According to ...

This could well go down in history as the summer the U.S. government finally woke up and recognized electronic commerce as something more than a passing fad ...