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Those easy, breezy first few years of online selling were a time of unbridled commercialism, entrepreneurial mayhem and a general free-for-all ...

Priceline seemed to be back on course, steering delicately toward profitability for the first time. The recent news from the Norwalk, Connecticut-based e-tailer was, for a change, mostly good. The days of the class action suits and massive layoffs and failed expansion ideas were fading in the rearview mirror. ...

"The downturn in the market has been a double whammy for the online brokerage firms," Chuck Callan, head of the North American financial services practice at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), told the E-Commerce Times. "On the one hand, they have lost some of their cache as ...

"If you don't have money coming in to support costs, you don't have the revenue to pay your people," Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "Other technology sectors have more viable revenue streams." Strategic Research Advisors managing director Paul Ritter agreed with Challen...

FTC deputy director of policy planning William Cohen told the E-Commerce Times that this year's session is giving participants a better look at the workings of B2Bs than one held last summer, because a number of B2Bs -- including automobile e-marketplace Covisint -- have gone live in the intervening months...

Deep into the second quarter of the year and after months spent struggling to survive, e-tailers are finally shifting their focus back to the basics, including, of course, consumer privacy ...

What if there's a second Internet bubble and no one wants to get inside? It could happen. In fact, the number of people who wince, shudder or burst into tears when someone mentions the idea of going to work for a pure-play Web company is growing dramatically. ...

"Word of mouth is very powerful in terms of buying power," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. "It can be incredibly effective." Kelley and Michele Pelino, director of Internet marketing strategies at the Yankee Group, agreed that word of m...

Before "E" had anything to do with commerce, way back in the 1990s, the "e-word" usually referred to empowerment ...

"We perceive Internet sales of counterfeit software as a burgeoning problem," Microsoft corporate attorney Mary Jo Schrade told the E-Commerce Times, adding that the trend has become serious enough for Microsoft to employ a separate unit to deal with Internet piracy ...

News flash: Online car buyers confused. ...

Regarding that pitch, keep it short and sweet. Remember, the investors are unenthusiastic about hearing yet another pie-in-the-sky speech about dot-com Nirvana. Work with a good writer -- perhaps the same one who drafts your business plan -- to develop a brief, effective pitch that will cause even the most jaded of investors to sit up and take notice. Good writing, smart word choices and substantive expression of ideas may be more persuasive than you might imagine, especially with investors who need heavy convincing. The Trouble with Angels Even with the best preparation, the most surefire team, first-rate resource people and an idea that seems destined for greatness -- the angels may be stubborn. What to do then? Find more angels. The beauty of a new industry in a fledgling economy is that anything is possible. Much of your success as a new entrant into an already troubled online arena has to do with attitude. If it comes down persuading your angel that groceries in Brooklyn are not as sexy or potentially profitable as widgets in cyberspace, your unwavering enthusiasm and determination might be what closes the sale. What do you think? Let's talk about it. Note: The opinions expressed by our columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the E-Commerce Times or its management. ...

Buy.com "has been deteriorating over the past year to a shocking degree,"Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times "One of the things they needed to do was grow really fast," said Kathman."But their revenue has gone into reverse, they've been exiting non-...

AuctionBytes president David Steiner told the E-Commerce Times that the trend "happened to lay itself out in front of us" as the Natick, Massachusetts publisher of auction newsletters compared data from May 2000 with current eBay listings. "As we did the data, it became very ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) went on a bit of a shopping spree late last month, dropping US$80 million over here for Internet consultant Mainspring and another $1 billion over there for database company Informix. ...

"That's a really ambitious goal," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "In order to meet it, eBay would have to make a lot of progress in moving beyond collectibles." The optimism from San Jose, California-based eBay comes as it continues to be one ...

Charles Collins, director of the Sales and Use Tax Division of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, told the E-Commerce Times that the Jupiter study backed up "other statistics" indicating that taxing e-commerce will not affect online sales. "Most consumers buy online fo...

Taking equity stakes in other dot-coms was "the cool thing to do a year ago, when everyone was living in Never-Never Land," investment banker Gary Lutin told the E-Commerce Times. By investing in other dot-coms, according to Lutin, companies were "exchanging currency backed b...

Kodak spokesman Gerard Meuchner told the E-Commerce Times that Ofoto's connection with Amazon would remain intact. Amazon linked with Ofoto in October and later built its photography store around the offering. "We intend to work with all existing partners and to further those...

"I think it's impressive what Travelocity and Expedia have been doing lately," Morningstar analystLangdon Healy told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a sector that seems to have taken hold." ...