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Larry Jordan, vice president of marketing for AuctionWatch.com, told the E-Commerce Times on Thursday that Amazon's move makes sense from a business perspective, because it allows the company to create a simple way for buyers to pay for all their auction purchases "It's a good...

The E-Commerce Times Index was down 2.54 percent, as declines in Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) offset gains in E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) and Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) E*Trade benefited from a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report, as the online brokerage ...

Earlier this month, E*Trade announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire online mortgage originator LoansDirect, in a bid to expand into the online home loan business. At the time, Morningstar.com analyst Alyssa Sibley told the E-Commerce Times that the acquisition was "another indication of [E*Trade's] commitment to diversifying and creating additional streams of revenue." ...

Webvan was up 30 U.S. cents to 84 cents in early morning trading, a 54.3 percent gain. However, analyst David Kathman of Morningstar.com told the E-Commerce Times that he remains pessimistic about the firm's outlook "They're just not getting enough people using the service," K...

"They have taken this very seriously," Sharon D'Amico, president of the Silicon Valley BBB, told the E-Commerce Times. She said that she was "very, very pleased" with the results of a Wednesday meeting with the Palo Alto, California-based company. The BBB's latest report on P...

"It's doubtful there will be a quarter like [the fourth quarter of 1999] for a very long time," Venture One director of research John R. Gabbert told the E-Commerce Times. "The IPO market tends to be cyclical, so the downturn we're seeing at the moment won't last forever. However, it looks like we're going into a dip and may stay there for a year or longer."

Last summer, when now former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act), it seemed we were about to scale the next digital mountain ...

"Children and teens were very casual about revealing family information," eMarketer analyst Rob Janes told theE-Commerce Times. "Itcan't be extrapolated accurately to the entire population, but it's a goodstrong indicator of how kids will respond to information online. It's anissue that parents should address."

A company spokesperson told the E-Commerce Times that any talk of PS3 is premature, with demand for the PS2 console still red-hot. In fact, an apparent shortage of PS2s created a traffic crunch on many e-tail sites and caused a spate of fraudulent sales during the holiday shopping season.

Quick: What do toysellers and drugstores have in common? ...

Although it is widely believed that Yahoo! made its decision because of the ruling by the French court, Yahoo! Auctions senior producer Brian Fitzgerald told the E-Commerce Times at the time that the company had been discussing the change since before the French lawsuit was filed against Yahoo!.

Whitfield told the E-Commerce Times that the PwC and Accenture studies differ because PwC looked at whether or not customers were satisfied while Accenture measured whether or not e-tailers met rigid criteria set by researchers Whitfield pointed out that consumers could still ...

"I think Webvan would be better served by deals that add value to the netincome part of their financial statement, rather than the just the revenueside," Yankee Group online retail analyst Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times. "A million dollars in additional sales won't mean a lot if it onlyadds a hundred bucks to net income."

Anyone who has ever worked in sales knows what separates the winners from the slackers is The Big Get ...

"For most of the Net stocks, we're seeing a dead cat bounce," Kathman told theE-Commerce Times. "They've fallenso far there's a little bit of a feeling that because they're so cheap,people are bargain hunting." Added Kathman: "There's no real fundamental reason behind therise...

"There are positives here, but they still have a long way to go," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times Although the total loss was greater than analysts projected, Drugstore.com still beat analyst estimates, which do not take into account one-time ch...

Internet companies can, in theory, locate anywhere that telephone and power lines reach. So why did so many consolidate in Silicon Valley? ...

It turns out that I was instrumental in developing the World Wide Web. I didn't know this until the Administration of outgoing U.S. President Bill Clinton took credit for the explosion in Internet use and e-commerce ...

"I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone bought them out," Morningstar.com analyst Joe Beaulieu told the E-Commerce Times earlier this week. Beaulieu also thinks the company's ongoing clearance sale indicates it is "obviously ramping up to shut down quickly." Though it co...

Plaintiffs' attorney Jim Krause said he would argue at a hearing set for Tuesday before Judge Linda B. Quinn for a change in the ruling. However, Krause told the E-Commerce Times that "by tradition" it is extremely difficult to convince a judge to change a ruling once made. A...