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The Internet was supposed to allow us to have a world without borders. A world in which a guy in New Jersey could buy tea from London and sweaters from Switzerland with a few simple keystrokes ...

John Challenger, chief executive officer of CGC, told the E-Commerce Times that some dot-com CEOs and CFOs are departing voluntarily because they feel that "no matter what they do, they can't prevent problems." Thirteen of the 71 total departing CFOs left dot-coms, compared to...

"I think it is going to threaten them, though it's hard tosay by how much," Melsted told the E-Commerce Times. "I don't think it's enough to put their online side out of business. But any time your No. 1 and No. 3 competitors get together, you have to pay attention." Melsted ...

The patents are in a "number of Internet postage areas we do not have patents in," Stamps.com spokesperson Kathleen Brushtold the E-Commerce Times Brush said that the purchase of E-Stamp's intellectual property signals that Stamps.com is "getting back to the Internet postage a...

"Part of it is they don't sell; that's not what they do," Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "They are content-focused because that's their strong suit. They kind of tacked on e-commerce (to their Web sites), but it's never worked for them and I doubt it ever will." After all, whe...

Readers far and near will be crossing their fingers, no doubt, in the hopes that I win round trip airfare for two to any destination in North America, compliments of Orbitz.com ...

About 12 government entities list regularly on eBay, according to Don Coy, eBay's senior manager of business development. Additionally, Coy told the E-Commerce Times that more government agencies are testing the online auction waters -- sometimes posting their listings anonymously...

"These were surprising numbers because it looked like we had peaked, butevidently that's not the case," John Challenger, chief executive officer of CGC, told the E-Commerce Times. "What this report suggests is we just haven'treached the turning point that seemed possible in the last two months ofdata."

Think there's such a thing as Internet privacy? Think again ...

"It was just a great opportunity for KB Toys," spokesperson John Reilly told the E-Commerce Times. "We made very good buys and will pass those savings along to our customers." Although the eToys domain name was not included in this purchase, Reilly confirmed that KB Toys had b...

"I think we're seeing Universal make a more aggressive move to catch up with BMG," Webnoize researcher Gregor Rohda told the E-Commerce Times. He pointed out that BMG has an entire arm devoted to Internet activities. Vivendi Universal, UMG's parent company, said that it plans...

Although people can argue over how old the Internet is, if you say 1994 was the birth year, the Web is 7 years old. The age that everyone agrees is the Age of Reason ...

"I'm not sure that we as a VC industry really took the time to figure out the value proposition (when investing in the pure-play companies)," Venrock Associates managing general partner Ray Rothrock told the E-Commerce Times. "eToys, for example, said it was going to sell toys, which is huge market. But if selling toys is a brick-and-mortar business model, then it has to compete on a brick-and-mortar level."

"The shakeout is really more about stock valuations than about fundamentals," IDC chief research officer John Gantz told the E-Commerce Times. "Confidence is shaken a bit, but there is still a lot of work being done out there to make e-commerce happen." In fact, IDC said that ...

Timing is everything in life, so the people who made a movie about the man behind the rise of the one-time Internet phenomenon known as Kozmo.com have to be grinning right now. ...

The annual uproar among online consumers who try to return merchandise bought via the Internet generally occurs around the Christmas holidays, but some e-tailers make it tough on buyers all year long ...

Companies that are successful and are able to offer minority stockholders a premium price for their shares are in a good position, Foster told the E-Commerce Times, because the risk of shareholder lawsuits is decreased. "[Shareholders] would be less likely to sue after receiv...

For those who think Koogle, Singh, Rubenstein and Mallet is a law firm, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) wants you to know otherwise ...

"Europe's fall with the dot-coms wasn't as painful as it was in the U.S," Gartner European research director Mark Raskino told the E-Commerce Times. "The number of overhyped dot-coms didn't have the same time to gestate," Raskino said. "[Europe's] Old Economy companies have d...

Despite years of success at the business of matchmaking, real-world dating services are in a losing battle with the Web for a couple of reasons. Well, actually three reasons. Wait, make that four or five or six reasons ...