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"[WHN] said they were negotiating an acquisition, and if that didn't happen they would have to shut down," Comedy Central senior vice president of new media Kenneth Locker told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday. Locker said that Comedy Central had about five days notice befor...

The ongoing online music wars have taken an interesting turn ...

"We're at work now to introduce Priceline-like services into the Asian marketand our work is progressing," Priceline spokesperson Brian Ek told theE-Commerce Times. Ek declined to specify whether a timetable had been setfor its Asian expansion plans....

"I don't think the vast majority of the public knows or cares which companies are in the Russell indexes, so it won't make much difference there," Morningstar.com e-commerce analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. ...

There are two ways to read the news that just four Web properties -- Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Napster -- account for half of all the surfing time in the U.S. ...

"The filters are doing their job, and there's simply less content availableto download," Lee Black, director of research for Webnoize, told theE-Commerce Times ...

Robert Fleming, president and chief executive officer of the Redondo Beach, California-based association, told the E-Commerce Times that constant change is an essential part of marketing and business in general, and that some lessons transcend peaks and valleys of business cycles.

After the merger is complete, MyPoints will continue to operate as a separate company headquartered in San Francisco, California. MyPoints spokesperson Geoff Ossias told the E-Commerce Times that "there are no plans for any changes" to the company's organizational structure, and that the company did not anticipate closing any of its eight branch offices...

It has been almost a year since former President Bill Clinton signed into law the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce (E-SIGN) Act ...

Raman told the E-Commerce Times that Drugstore.com's focus on gross margin, customer acquisition costs and operating efficiency is the reason it has survived, and that its appearance on doom-and-gloom lists is not important "People bring [such lists] to me, but I really don't ...

In addressing the issue of Internet privacy and the handling of data collected in e-commerce transactions, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be employing that old adage: No harm, no foul. ...

Covisint is moving "slower than they should to have the impact they want to," Forrester Research analyst Dan Garretson told the E-Commerce Times, adding that Covisint will "probably not go completely away, but its role will diminish." When Covisint was first announced in Febru...

"These are interesting experiments and I don't think there's anything wrong with them, but I don't think they're the future of the industry by any stretch," Forrester analyst Eric Scheirer told the E-Commerce Times Movies on the site will be streamed for a cost of US$2.99 each...

Travelocity's ads -- two 30-second television spots set to begin airing Monday -- are covered by the company's estimated $50 million annual advertising budget. Travelocity vice president of consumermarketing Michael Stacy told the E-Commerce Times that the cost was "in line with other campaigns" Travelocity has done.

Charlotte Fox, assistant vice president of public relations for CSFBdirect, told the E-Commerce Times that within the "next month or so" the online brokerage firm plans to open investment centers in Chicago; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Sandy City, Utah. The company already operates investment centers in New York and Atlanta, Georgia...

The launch of Orbitz is drawing near. And the travel industry, both offline and on the Web, would have us believe that the approaching footsteps it hears are those of a monster, a Godzilla coming to stomp Tokyo into submission. ...

"Most of these funds have huge amounts of capital that they are holding onto until there is more visibility in what the landscape looks like," Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner for private equity for technology at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"I imagine as B2B online trade becomes more global, more trade will shift to using these types of channels," Jupiter Media Metrix B2B analyst Jonathan Gibs told the E-Commerce Times. BuyUSA spokesperson Phyllis Bingham said Wednesday that portions of the site are currently li...

Two of the world's largest media industries have notfigured out what to do with each other ...

"One of the groups of society that benefits from home shopping in general is disabled people," Craig told the E-Commerce Times. Tesco, which set up its shopping site about five years ago, discovered that as the site became more complex, including more links and graphics, it b...