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No one has ever accused Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) of being an e-tail slacker. Something's always brewing in Seattle, Washington, with Amazon forever busy striking alliances and announcing new products. ...

John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of CGC, told the E-Commerce Times that the slowing layoff rates could be a sign that dot-com firms are reaching a point of equilibrium, where they have the right number of employees for their business models In April, a record 17,554...

"They've got a lot of work ahead of them, but they've come a long way already," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They've proven they can take bold steps and make tough decisions." In morning trading Tuesday, eBay stock was down $1.16 to $61.04....

McDonald's spokesperson Lisa Howard told the E-Commerce Times that the company does not know yet whether the plan will go national. McDonald's has been testing the system in the Chicago area since October, when it began a pilot program in a handful of restaurants ...

The opening night showing of "Startup.com" in Los Angeles on May 18th was full of dot-com workers who were probably looking for a chance to laugh in the mirror. Instead, they got socked with raw footage of incompetent people mistreating one another while wasting a lot of investor money. ...

"You can't necessarily talk about e-commerce stocks as a monolithic group anymore, because there's been a real divergence among business models," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. While a small but growing number of companies are closing in on p...

"As long as outages are not consistent and persistent, e-tailers should be okay," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. Kelley added that outages become an issue when they occur "day after day," especially during the workday and early evenin...

Maybe I came down a little hard on the CyberRebate victims. But then again, maybe not. ...

The forces of digital evil could be lurking nearby at any time ...

Travelocity spokesperson Jennifer Tweeton told the E-Commerce Times the company sold its 9.4 percent stake in HRN simply to "monetize its investment and turn its equity into cash." The move came two months after the two online travel companies extended an affiliation agreement...

The sale does not change Delta's plans for its ongoing relationship withPriceline, Ek told the E-Commerce Times. In February, the two companies restructured their relationship to reducePriceline's dividend expenses and help it along the path to profitability.As part of the agreement, Delta exchanged its 6 million Pricelineconvertible preferred shares for new preferred stock and warrants...

"The reality is that 2001 is going to be a year of great consolidation and outright failure of certain Internet models, but it will also be the birth of the multichannel model in a robust way," Gartner research director Robert Labatt told the E-Commerce Times recently ...

There's an old saying about kicking a person when he or she is down, but I can't remember how it goes, so here is my take on the people who are crying over the thousands of dollars in rebates they never got from CyberRebate.com: You got exactly what you deserved. ...

Companies doing business on the Internet need to focus on "delivering what people want," Jupiter analyst Rob Leathern told the E-Commerce Times. According to Leathern, that includes not only offering the products customers want, but also quality customer service The primary me...

Walsh told the E-Commerce Times that some large law enforcement agencies are reaching out to the private sector because of the tremendous amount of manpower required to investigate high-tech crimes. "I think there is a symbiotic relationship," said Walsh, who is also presiden...

Toys 'R' Us spokesman Louis Lipschitz told the E-Commerce Times the change will definitely take place by the end of May "This is something we've planned to do all along," Lipschitz said. "We had other priorities to address at first but it's finally coming to fruition. We're ju...

The Web won't be much of a Web anymoreif governments and corporations are allowed to continueon their destructive path, dictating when andhow people can insert links to other siteswhen creating their own Internet content ...

"There is very limited room for Internet-only retailers," Jupiter research director Michael May told the E-Commerce Times Most of the benefits of having an online presence are harvested by brick-and-mortar stores, Jupiter senior analyst Ken Cassar told the E-Commerce Times. Ac...

"The rhetoric regarding e-government is moving closer to reality," Accenture managing partner Stephen Rohleder told the E-Commerce Times. "You're seeing more states tackle these initiatives as the technology matures." The most common service offered online is vehicle registrat...

Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols agreed, telling the E-Commerce Times that "The IPO calendar is brimming with activity." Added Nichols: "Companies patiently waiting to debut are using the Nasdaq run-up as a catalyst for coming out now."