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"We have not seen any effects," a company spokesperson told the E-Commerce Times. "Our sales in California over last few days have actuallyparalleled national sales." According to the California Independent System Operator (ISO), Thursday'sblackouts affected about 1 million ut...

Last week, one of America's legendary rebels threw his consumer watchdog hat in the e-commerce ring. He's Ralph Nader, a consistently strong voice for the American consumer and a formidable opponent of corporate America ...

"Talking about profitability is premature," Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "Profits are nowhere near on the horizon, unless what we're seeing in terms of cost reduction is just the tip of the iceberg." Nonetheless, NBCi repeated the forecast ...

"I don't see a great deal of advertising for CDNow on TV or the radio, evenin print, but yet their traffic numbers are still high, which means themoney that had been spent on brand building has had some residual effectthat's continuing to drive visitor traffic," Yankee Group research analyst Paul Ritter told theE-Commerce Times...

Does anyone really still believe that we are one revolutionary invention away from nirvana? You would think so, given the hype that briefly accompanied the mysterious product known as "Ginger." ...

"I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone bought them out," Morningstar.com analyst Joe Beaulieu told the E-Commerce Times. eToys investor relations representative Chem Teng told the E-Commerce Times that the company "won't comment on rumor and speculation." ...

"People wanted a break," Sean Kaldor, vice president of e-commerce at NetRatings, told the E-Commerce Times. "Vacation time from work, combined with family events and travel, were the likely driversof the decrease in Web usage in December." ...

Right now, online commerce and offline commerce are trying to work out how much they need one another -- in kind of the same way The Odd Couple would ...

Right now, online commerce and offline commerce are trying to work out how much they need one another -- in kind of the same way The Odd Couple would ...

Michael Davis, vice president and research area director for the Gartner Group, told the E-Commerce Times that Drkoop.com's latest move underscores the weakness of content as a "commodity" in the online health sector "Long-term, the only way those companies can survive is if t...

Right now, online commerce and offline commerce are trying to work out how much they need one another -- in kind of the same way The Odd Couple would ...

Despite high hopes, however, Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times that Yahoo! is not likely to achieve any short-term breakthroughs in the B2B space. "Although these are large market opportunities," Nichols said, "it's unclear how big a slice Yahoo...

In January 2000, ProFlowers.com chief analytical officer Mark Irace told the E-Commerce Times that his company was "100 percent confident" it could handle anticipated orders. Irace added that if demand were unexpectedly heavy, the company "would not take orders it could not deliver." ...

First, there was the thrill of living on the edge. Long before the e-commerce shakeout began, analysts warned of its arrival. And when the first collapses finally came, they carried with them all the excitement of a building demolition. ...

"Most people realize the Super Bowl is as much about advertising as football," Monster.com director of advertising Zennaa Gallagher told the E-Commerce Times Interestingly, a high-tech company generated perhaps the most famous Super Bowl ad of all time: Apple's 1984 spot intro...

Those magic words "Click Here" mean different things to different people ...

"The numbers are likely to be encouraging for portals to keep the mall concept, as online malls are growing faster than the overall market," Yankee senior online retail strategies consultant Steve Vonder Haar told the E-Commerce Times "Online malls are growing from a smaller b...

"If any B2Bs are going to be big winners, it will be Ariba and Commerce One," Beaulieu told the E-Commerce Times According to Beaulieu, Ariba is "well positioned to take advantage of the coming boom in B2B infrastructure spending."

"In general, it has been a situation where companies have tried to guide expectations lower, and usually they were beating those expectations," Tomas Isakowitz, who follows the company for Janney Montgomery Scott, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is one quarter where that didn't happen."

Not so fast! What was supposed to be a slam dunk became a waiting game when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hesitated in approving the US$100 billion merger of America Online (AOL) and Time Warner ...