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"I think this campaign is not a bad idea for eBay," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They're going to need to expand their audience beyond the traditional online crowd if they're going to meet the aggressive growth target they've set for themselves."

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spokeswoman Laura Bosley told the E-Commerce Times that the two investigations involve the alleged defrauding of nearly 250 individuals over the past 18 months and more than US$110,000 in losses. Bosley said that the investigation is cont...

When all else fails, blame the bots ...

Yahoo! is still looking at other options, such as appealing the order inFrance and "making some effort to comply" with the order or otherwiseaddress the French government's concerns, Wrenn told the E-Commerce Times."We're still looking at these issues, and working at the highest levels" toaddress them, he said...

Weren't we all supposed to be paying our bills with a simple point and click by now? Weren't the bricks and mortar of the traditional banking world supposed to fade away, like the rotary phone and the television knob?What happened to all those optimistic techno-prognosticators who told us that an inordinate number of Americans would be banking online by 2001?...

The November numbers were "really strong," Harris Interactive director of e-commerce research Lori Iventosch-James told the E-Commerce Times. "They were right about on target, maybe even a little bit above target, and we in fact upgraded our estimates for December based on the strong November."

"Priceline may be close to exhausting the potential of its business model," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times on Monday. "If it survives, it will be as a niche player in the travel industry. As far as I can see, that core business is in no immediate danger of going bankrupt, but I'm pretty skeptical of its ability to keep expanding much." ...

"I don't think there are too many ways in which the change in administration will affect e-commerce," Forrester Research government analyst Jay Stanley told the E-Commerce Times. "The bigger issue is how the Internet is regulated and how vigorously." The 54 year-old Evans said...

The Nasdaq composite stock index fell 178.78, or 7.12 percent, to 2332.93, its lowest close in 20 months and its seventh straight session decline. The E-Commerce Times stock index, which monitors 10 prominent dot-coms, including Amazon and eBay, fell 11.84 percent At this time...

On my father's 80th birthday, he announced that he felt he had outlived himself ...

Company spokesperson Glenn Jasper told the E-Commerce Times that Beenz had not consummated any deals yet, but is negotiating with several companies and is "happy with the way things are going." ...

Machlachlan told the E-Commerce Times that smaller, independent publishers will struggle for their place in the e-book world "I think the future will still be with big publishers," Maclachlan said. "All ambitious authors want to get big contracts with big publishers."

"Without positive gross margins it's very difficult to have a sustainablebusiness. Pets.com had high shipping costs for such low value orders thatthey operated at a substantially negative gross margin," Ritter told theE-Commerce Times On the other hand, SharperImage.com is abl...

Daily visits to online auction sites overall were running 62 percent aheadof the same period last year, with eBay seeing an 89 percent increase, thereport showed. "There's the popular notion that Amazon is the king of onlineshopping destinations, but there's another shopping destination that isdrawing critical mass: eBay," Media Metrix researcher Max Kalehoff told theE-Commerce Times...

The Nasdaq composite stock index fell 112.81, or 4.3 percent, to 2511.71, its lowest close since August 10th, 1999. The E-Commerce Times stock index, which charts the shares of 10 prominent dot-coms, including Amazon and eBay, fell 13.2 percent Normally, stocks respond positiv...

Don't look now, but a host of dot-coms that never took a dime of venture capital are now turning a profit. That's right. Not mid-2002. Now -- before the end of the year 2000. ...

Although IBM and EzGov have been working together since June, EzGov spokesperson Nicole Hockin told the E-Commerce Times that the latest agreement is focused on serving county and municipal governments ...

Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times that even though Priceline was insulated from the direct impact of the Myprice efforts, "the loss of this opportunity is a blow for Priceline, if an indirect one." ...

As America prepares once again to celebrate a new year, all the usual national rituals are getting ready to make the rounds. Those with ever-expanding waistlines will go on diets, sinners will make resolutions to behave, and oh yes... e-commerce stalwarts of all ideologies will renew the fight on whether online sales should be taxed ...

Company spokesperson Paula Davis told the E-Commerce Times that the layoffs in Chicago are effective immediately, but that the offices in Boulder and Austin willremain open until around the first of the year. She added that the laid-off employees will receive severance pay MVP...