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Traditionally, when the lights go out, you've had two choices: You can light a candle or you can curse the darkness. But thanks to e-commerce, there's a third choice: Capitalize on others' misfortunes ...

"Many of the failed e-tailers of 2000 established business plans that were intended to operate on negative gross margins for an extended period of time, a fundamentally flawed business strategy," Yankee online retail analyst Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times. "Clearly, su...

Yankee Group analyst Christine Loeber told the E-Commerce Times that alternative payment methods are "not gathering much steam." The primary reason that credit cards are still dominant is that people are more familiar with their use, Loeber said. Moreover, the analyst said, sh...

E-commerce proponents often believe that anything sold offline is fair game for online sales ...

"They still have pretty highoperating expenses," Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "But having a huge company like Ahold as their majorityowner means they are likely to get more help from their parent company." ...

Franco told the E-Commerce Times that "the tendency is that as consumers become more and more apprehensive, they curtail their spending and that would clearly affect e-commerce spending." Bear Stearns analyst Jeff Fieler agreed that the drop in consumer confidence will have an...

"It may be that we are reaching a turning point where the shakeout is goingto start to slow down," John Challenger,chief executive officer of the Chicago, Illinois-based firm, told theE-Commerce Times. "A lot of companies pointed towards year-end as a makeor break time, so cuts were really heavy in December/January. So they havepulled back some. It may be a sign we're reaching a peak." ...

First, a little interactive quiz. And don't worry, there are no wrong answers. Just fill in this blank: What the e-commerce world needs now is ________. ...

At the time, Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times he was "certainly not very optimistic" about the company's prospects for survival ...

"We're in a new Internet economic situation today where the rules of 1998are no longer valid," David Smith, vice president of Internet strategies for the Gartner Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The year of free lunch on the Internet is coming to aclose and Microsoft may be out in front of the trend here."

Call it the voice of desperation ...

"Travel agencies, in many cases, will have to adapt or die," Jupiter senior analyst Melissa Shore told the E-Commerce Times. Shore noted that while "travel agencies are not going away," she said that in order to survive, they will need to evolve away from only offering automa...

"If you look at venture capital funding for e-commerce companies, the second and third rounds of financing really tapered off for [the] third/fourth quarters of 2000," Steve Butler, business analyst for eMarketer, told the E-Commerce Times. "This leaves dot-coms with very little cash to last on a month-to-month basis. The majority will go bankrupt or consolidate by the middle or end of this year."

On the business scorecard, it wasn't much of a victory for Barnesandnoble.com -- and it may only be a fleeting one at that. ...

CatherineWilliamson, director of entertainment memorabilia for Butterfields, told theE-Commerce Times that the Marilyn Monroe auction will be a great opportunity because "it's a really high profile auction, which gets usto flex our huge marketing muscle in the eBay corporation." ...

Brian Fitzgerald, senior producer of Yahoo! Auctions, told the E-Commerce Times that in the month since Yahoo! began charging listing fees, the number of items being sold per listed auction had grown 550 percent. Additionally, the number of bids made on each item on the site had increased fourfold, Yahoo! said...

"This is an area we continue to look at," Maryland Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Pressman told the E-Commerce Times Tuesday. "There is not yet any way that we're aware of to ensure that minors can't buy cigarettes online." Pressman says that Maryland law enforcement offi...

If there is a single issue that threatens to stop e-commerce development in its tracks, it is the issue of which country has jurisdiction over disputes concerning cross-border electronic transactions ...

"Ever since Napster's launch, the labels demonized file sharing," Aram Sinnreich, an analyst with Jupiter Media Metrix, told the E-Commerce Times in November. "Record labels realized the potential that this had with consumers and they are now finally starting to do something about it." ...

"There are only so many portals that are going to make it in the consumer domain and the shakeout is going to continue, whereas potentially every corporation or division of a corporation may require or think it needs its own portal," Geoffrey Dutton, the author of the report, told the E-Commerce Times...