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eToys Europe marketing director James Bidwell told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday that the company's European holiday sales revenue was double that of the previous year, but that eToys Europe was "wholly reliant on the U.S. for funding." ...

The E-Commerce Times stockindex, which consists of 10 prominent dot-coms, slipped 3.54 percentThursday, following an 18.8 percent rise Wednesday ...

"The perceptions definitely are that on the Internet, security is on a much higher risk level," NFO Interactive vice president Ann Green told the E-Commerce Times. To combat those fears, companies need to educate consumers about the relative risks, Green said.

"Last year, we were in deep apology mode," Toysrus.com vice president of corporate communications Jeanne Meyer told the E-Commerce Times. "This year, we're tinkering with [online partner] Amazon to figure out how to do it better next year." The holiday sales figures for Toysru...

Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times that while the outage could inflict short-term damage to eBay's profits and stock value, the company's long-range outlook remains sound. "Overall I think eBay will be fine," said Kathman, who learned of the outag...

Similarly, the E-Commerce Times stock index, which monitors 10 prominent dot-coms, including Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), jumped 18.8 percent. Amazon rose 26.6 percent, or US$3.69, to $17.56, while eBay soared 30.3 percent, or $9.17, to $39.36 The day's s...

Okay, the ornaments are put away, the champagne inventories are depleted, and it's time to get on with it. E-commerce, hung over from a rough year-end, must pick itself up and move forward. But how? ...

Hopefully, the major players in e-commerce have already made their most important resolutions -- No. 1 being to survive another year -- but I'd like to request one final promise ...

Similarly, the E-Commerce Times stock index, which monitors 10 prominent dot-coms including Amazon and eBay, fell 7.93 percent Although a widespread tech stock sell-off in December helped reduce stockprices, wary investors spurned the bargain shares....

The move comes despite the company's status as the No. 1 toy e-tailer in Europe. eToys Europe marketing director James Bidwell told the E-Commerce Times that the company's European holiday sales revenue was double that of the previous year, but that eToys Europe was "wholly reliant on the U.S. for funding."

Yahoo! Auctions senior producer Brian Fitzgerald told the E-Commerce Times that the company had been discussing the change even before the French suit against Yahoo! was filed in April "We are not interested in promoting businesses that profit from hate-related material," Fitz...

Of all the issues surrounding e-commerce, privacy is perhaps the most hotly debated. Everyone wants to protect privacy, but no one can agree on how ...

Wall Street investment firm C.E. Unterberg Towbin decided last week to drop coverage of e-commerce stocks, claiming that the space wasn't making anybody any money. ...

With the grim outlook for the online sales landscape, with companies shifting strategies to accommodate the downturn, e-tailers should be doing everything possible to court... well, me ...

The early numbers themselves are reason to applaud, take a bow and celebrate: E-tail spending apparently doubled over last year's level. A 100 percent increase in anything is impressive, but what makes the numbers even more startling are the circumstances under which that increase happened. ...

"One of the ironies about the shakeout is that there is still a lot of money, because a lot of funds were raised and closed before the shakeout," Meckler recently told the E-Commerce Times. "Billions of dollars are invested each week." In fact, there may be "more money availa...

For a reference point, consider the E-Commerce Times Stock Index, which measures 10 prominent online businesses that, as it turned out, lost a whole lot of prominence this year. At the end of 1999, the index measured 340.72. By the close of business in 2000, the index had dropped 82 percent, to 61.34...

It has long been the official policy of eBay to prohibit members from arranging deals outside the confines of cyberspace, but company spokesman Henry Gomez told the E-Commerce Times that eBay announced its intention to enforce the policy after receiving complaints from members...

E-commerce packed a lot of history into the year 2000 -- not all of it good, by any means. Indeed, future generations may consider the long, steady decline of stock values and the concurrent shakeout as the story of the year. ...

When asked recently if he knows what women want, matinee idol Mel Gibson, star of the new motion picture "What Women Want," said simply, "I don't have a clue." ...