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FTC staff attorney David Torok told the E-Commerce Times thatthe agency has not yet determined exactly howmuch money consumers have allegedlylost in the Streamline marketing program ...

ZixIt director of corporate communications Paul LaBelle told the E-Commerce Times that ZixIt was informed earlier in the week that fraudulent transactions were taking place using the merchant accounts on the Anacom network "We pulled the plug and immediately informed all the m...

"We're seeing government start to use some of these mechanisms private companies have already been using," John McCarthy, a government analyst with Forrester Research, told the E-Commerce Times. McCarthy said that the federal government is about 18 to 24 months behind private...

While some might see Travelocity's announcement as a desperate bid to compete with travel mega-site Orbitz, Morningstar.com analyst Langdon Healy, who covers Travelocity, told the E-Commerce Times, "I don't think it's desperation. I think it's prudent business planning." Healy...

Undaunted by consistent reports of hackers, consumer data being compromised online, and technological loopholes, my credit-card numbers are all over the Internet ...

"MP3.com is currently assessing the court's ruling and will consider our options and act accordingly," MP3.com public relations director Greg Wilfahrt told the E-Commerce Times ...

Overstock chief executive officer Patrick Byrne told the E-Commerce Times that it was a "no-brainer" for Overstock to open a B2B branch, because 5 percent to 10 percent of Overstock customers were small businesses. Byrne said that the OverstockB2B has been open in a "soft lau...

Advocates for the blind say existing software often does not work withflashy Web sites that use lots of links and graphics. Lorraine Marchi,founder and chief executive of the National Association for the VisuallyHandicapped, told the E-Commerce Times last month that her group's memberswould rather have Web sites address their needs directly than rely on third-party technology...

The worlds of e-commerce and online advertising are going through a bit of a phase, it seems. ...

San Jose, California-based eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) grew to be a "yard sale on steroids," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times, because it was the first company to figure out how to make online auctions work. "They had a good idea and executed it...

However, it is still "too early to say" how the online brokerages' movement into other sectors of the banking industry will go, Yankee Group analyst Lisa Melsted told the E-Commerce Times. On Monday, Net brokerage E*Trade (NYSE: ET)launched a mortgage service and Ameritrade (...

Division of Consumer Affairs spokesperson Genene Wiggins Morris told the E-Commerce Times that legal papers had not yet been served to the threeonline casinos "We just filed yesterday, so that would be the next step,"she said....

Recently I saw the inside of my local bank for the first time in years. ...

FTC staff attorney Steven Wernikoff told the E-Commerce Times that what set this operation apart from other scams investigated by the FTC is that the site was "all about gathering people's personal information." Many consumers were directed to Rhinopoint.com by their Internet ...

Online shopping in Europe is unlikely ever to catch up with e-commerce levels in the U.S., in large part because of regulatory hurdles and small domestic markets, a Forrester Research analyst told the E-Commerce Times on Monday "Shopping online doesn't just depend on people ha...

"The 'slump' could be seasonal, it could be the economy, and it could not be a slump at all," McQuivey told the E-Commerce Times. "We'll have to stay tuned to see what June does." Forrester and Greenfield did find that last month's e-tail spending outpaced the $3.4 billion spe...

This year, for the first time, doomsayers are not predicting that the holiday season will be make-or-break time for the entire e-commerce industry ...

"Some people read privacy policies, but it's a tiny minority," Susannah Fox,director of research at the PewInternet and American Life Project in Washington, D.C., told theE-Commerce Times. "People aren't that aggressive when it comes toprotecting their own privacy." In fact, F...

While not fatal in itself, losing the prestige of the Nasdaq means raising additional capital will be nearly impossible for Buy.com, Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "Getting delisted has a huge effect on a stock's liquidity, and makes it much,...

SIIA vice president in charge of anti-piracy Peter Beruk told the E-Commerce Times that the SIIA was contacted last year by people complaining that after they placed bids at online auctions for software, they were contacted via e-mail by vendors offering pirated versions of the same software at lower prices...