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"It is hard to come back once you're on the pink sheets," Matthew Foster, a Tampa, Florida-based partner with the lawfirm of Foley & Lardner, told the E-Commerce Times. "No one can go long, so the stock price is depressed." ...

Is it just me or is Amazon chief Jeff Bezos' wide-eyed, Andy Kaufman-like, perpetual grin starting to wear a little thin? ...

"I think he's an interesting choice," Jupiter Research business-to-business (B2B) analyst Jonathan Gibs told the E-Commerce Times. "I find it somewhat telling that he does not have an automotive background." Gibs and AMR analyst Kevin Prouty each believe that English has a dif...

"There is going to be something of a shakeout," Webnoize director of research Lee Black told the E-Commerce Times. "There's not a lot of room for players on the distribution side." Existing platforms, such as Rio, MSN and RealNetworks and even MP3.com and Napster, have the be...

Published reports stating that Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) had breached a seven-day old contract with Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) are "absolutely incorrect," a spokesperson for the bank told the E-Commerce Times on Tuesday, an assertion that contradicted comments she allegedly made to the press earlier in the day...

These are rough days for the psyche of e-commerce. Just when a glimmer of sunlight appears, another dark cloud comes out of nowhere. ...

eBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times earlier that the San Jose, California-based Web auction house assisted the investigation by providing federal authorities with access to eBay tools that can help pursue individuals who perpetrate auction fraud. "Anyt...

The E-Commerce Times Index was up 9.42 percent at midday, with Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) posting the biggest percentage gains Barnesandnoble.com was up 26 U.S. cents at $1.59 after the online bookseller said it expected a 23 percent jump...

Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times the appointment was a "mild positive" for the company. The analyst also said that the move to hire a media executive does not mean Yahoo is giving up on e-commerce. "It's not so much a slap in the face of e-comm...

It was a news item that wasn't fully unexpected, yet it caught some e-commerce industry observers off guard ...

It was a news item that wasn't fully unexpected, yet it caught some e-commerce industry observers off guard ...

It was a news item that wasn't fully unexpected, yet it caught some e-commerce industry observers off guard ...

When the decision to open an adult storefront was announced, Gartner research director Whit Andrews told E-Commerce Times that the move would increase Yahoo's exposure to protest or outrage and was "a substantial risk." Andrews said at the time that Yahoo! was putting itself ...

As we comb through the dot-com rubble, we come across a lot of failed e-commerce companies that had everything going for them but nevertheless missed the mark. They faced bad timing. Bad management. Bad luck. Some combination of the three. ...

Change is in the air, and that is good news for e-commerce. Internet-based selling is about to start Act II. ...

Forrester Research group director John McCarthy told the E-Commerce Times that e-commerce would grow during the Bush administration, although he went on to say that some people believe Bush "hasn't done e-commerce any favors by talking us into a recession." Rob Atkinson, direc...

MarchFirst has struggled since it was created last year in a merger between Chicago's Whittman Hart and San Francisco, California-based USWeb/CKS. Morningstar analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times recently that the merger was ""just a fiasco, basically." The last mo...

Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times that due to the shaky economic climate for dot-coms, it was not uncommon for companies to decline to make earnings estimates ...

"Yahoo's announcement will kill the [Internet] world," BlueStone Capital analyst Kathleen Heaney told E-Commerce Times at the time. "It will be a bumpy road for a number of other companies, as they are directly affected by the Yahoo! news." The company's stock, which in March...

"It's really hard to stop someone from using your name, using your logo, orotherwise misusing your brand," Susan Grant,director of the National Consumer League's Internet Fraud Watch, told the E-Commerce Times. "This illustrates that you can't always believe what you see on the Net."