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When it comes to the Web, groceries are one thing, and not a verypromising one at that. But what about prepared foods? It's possible that your corner pizza store could be quietly writing an e-commerce success story ...

Jennifer McKinley, managing director at Mainspring Consulting in Boston, Massachusetts, told the E-Commerce Times that a portal strategy is still important for online merchants -- whether they're selling financial services, books or computers. "People are not necessarily buyi...

"Of course we're disappointed that the featured items did not meet thereserves, but that's the nature of the auction business," eBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times eBay would not confirm the number of bidders. However, according to the Los Angeles Times...

Barbara Petito, deputy press secretary of the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, told the E-Commerce Times that Computer Personalities Systems shut down its Web site Thursday ...

Amid the unfortunate prognostications about the fate of e-commerce sites, smart marketers are setting their sites on capturing untapped markets ...

IDC consumer devices analyst Bryan Ma told the E-Commerce Times that "it hasn't been apparent" that products such as Audrey will bring enough value to a consumer to justify their expense "It's an increasingly difficult market, especially for the hardware where margins are goin...

"The Internet is alive and well and very resilient," eMarketer chief executive officer Geoff Ramsey told the E-Commerce Times. This is not a fad or novelty. In terms of the growth of e-commerce in both the U.S. and worldwide, essentially everything is on track despite what we're seeing with the economy."

Trust is implicit in the buying process, but no place more so than online. You don't give your credit card over with one hand and grab the package with the other. You give your credit card, sit back and wait, trusting the merchant to complete the sale. ...

The "strong penetration level" should serve as a "reality check" for those who engage in relentless negative coverage about online retailing, Greenfield spokesperson Gail Janensch told the E-Commerce Times "It's a great antidote to a lot of the pessimism that we're all hearing...

There sat Amazon chief executive officer Jeff Bezos, up on the dais at the high-tech summit,telling investors, again, not to buy shares of dot-com stocks like hiscompany's. It was sound advice, but I'm convinced it was just cover ...

"The only thing they could identify was wrong was an assumption, that was supported by a couple of analysts, that creditors would not grant credit on available cash," Lutin told the E-Commerce Times. "No facts or examples were provided to support the assumption that trade creditors would base their decision on the cash balance of prior periods and abandon their conservative analysis based on working capital."

After surviving the dot-com shakeout and now a slowing economy, many e-tailers are too distracted to remember one of the essentials of running a smart business: Listen to the customer ...

"eBay is very popular for toy collectors and parents looking for hard-to-find toys," NPD senior account manager Michael Redmond told the E-Commerce Times. "eBay's not a traditional e-tailer per se, but it's still recognized as a major player in online toy sales, although in secondhand sales." ...

Online delivery service Kozmo.com appears to be quietly re-tooling itself, with a tip of the technological hat to the "old economy." ...

"Although most of these execs are citing the generic 'personal reasons' line, the likely cause is the fundamental deterioration of the business," Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "Next to being the PR director for Bridgestone/Firestone, I can't think of a more unenviable job than being the marketing director for Yahoo!." ...

They're virtual brothels, offering sex for sale. In this special report, the E-Commerce Times takes a look at the oldest profession as it moves into the New Economy. Cyber-escorts, which more often than not offer illegal transactions, are adopting the e-commerce standards of legitimate business while playing a black market game.

"We're very pleased about today's settlement," Yahoo! general counsel Jon Sobel told the E-Commerce Times. "We believe the best way to solve new challenges is for companies to work together." Sobel added that working together instead of litigating is often the best solution, ...

By most accounts, last year's holiday season was an encouraging time for e-tailers, especially those Web sites that managed to make gift buying hassle-free.With the exception of online clothing merchants. ...

"Each company is using different strategies because they each have differenttarget audiences," Yankee Group vice president of Internet strategies Kevin Noonan told the E-Commerce Times Intuit's TurboTax has an enormous market share, but is essentially for the less sophisticate...

Amazon, however, has maintained that the timing of Bezos' stock sale wastriggered by the release of the company's quarterly earnings report and notSuria's report. The company told the E-Commerce Times on Friday that it had not beennotified of the SEC investigation ...