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For those of you who think that there has been nothing funny about the struggles in the dot-com world this year, the E-Commerce Times begs to differ As we reach the halfway point in a year where nothing has been certain in e-commerce except uncertainty, indulge yourself with a...

Webnoize director of research Lee Black told the E-Commerce Times that the deal will likely benefit both companies "Launch has a good brand name and some relatively good content for the music space," Black said. "I was surprised at the price that was paid for a company that ha...

"It's not a counterclaim of any type," Stamps.com spokesperson Kathleen Brush told the E-Commerce Times at the time. "We're suing them for patent infringement." The Pitney Bowes lawsuits against Stamps.com involve both online postage and shipping patents. In September, Pitney...

The shareholders of Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) are assembling Friday. It's not likely to be a happy occasion, since a share of the company's once impressive stock can now be had for about one thin U.S. dime. ...

Astrid Adolfson, financial economist at MCM Moneywatch, told the E-Commerce Times that original projections of a turnaround in six months were the result of a misunderstanding of the so-called New Economy. Fed officials "assumed that because it was software they were looking ...

Akamai spokesperson Jeff Young told the E-Commerce Times that its service agreement with Yahoo! guaranteed 97 percent accuracy in locating a Web surfer's country of origin and 80 percent accuracy in identifying the metropolitan area a surfing session originated from. However,...

"Consumer consent provisions only apply to laws that require written noticesbe sent to consumers, so generally it does not apply to the electroniccontract of the sale of goods," John Morgan, an attorney specializing in e-commerce for the Seattle, Washington firm of Perkins Coie LLP, told the E-Commerce Times.

E-commerce industry insiders and pundits are acting out their own version of the reality TV show "Survivor," wondering aloud which dot-com is going to be the next player kicked off the Net. ...

Weber told the E-Commerce Times that pure-play companies are suffering the consequences of several years of heavy spending. "The pure plays need to show profitability and that's difficult to do in the short term," Weber said.

eBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that eBay will provide the requested information to the committee over the next five to six weeks "We'll essentially tell them some of the steps eBay has taken over the years to reduce fraud and we'll be happy to coop...

"I feel like we are nearing the back end of the shakeout," CGC chief executive officer John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. However, Challenger added that there would always be job cuts as the sector continued to grow and mature....

The online auction world shrugged its collective shoulders when two of the biggest competitors of Internet auction powerhouse eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), Yahoo! Auctions and uBid, announced that they had made a deal to share listings. ...

"It's a logical move," Lancaster told the E-Commerce Times. "We're seeing this in a number of industries, because it really cuts human costs." ...

Webnoize analyst Ric Dube told the E-Commerce Times that getting the rights "to distribute music for as many labels as possible" is part of Napster's business model However, Dube added, "I don't know if it's going to be enough to make people subscribe to Napster."

If it feels as if the summer is already racing by, consider how the legislators on Capitol Hill feel. October is just around the corner, and that means somebody has to do something about Internet taxes ...

In Part 1 of a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times began to dispel the seven deadly myths of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Analysts told us that, contrary to what many people think:...

"I don't know that this spells a re-opening of the dot-com free-for-all," Venture Economics managing editor Ken Anderson told the E-Commerce Times. "It's more of a recognition that it takes a bit more to get some kind of return now." ...

Yet despite the importance of B2B in the e-commerce picture, several myths and misperceptions still exist, according to analysts. In a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times aims to dispel the seven deadly myths of B2B ...

The search for positive signs in the online grocery world has usually required a keen eye. Now it only requires a glance across the Atlantic to the UK. ...

We all knew the century had officially turned in my town when the local race track started accepting bets via the Internet ...