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"The numbers look solid all around," Rebecca Nidositko, a senior analyst at Yankee and the author of the report told the E-Commerce Times. "It looks like a good shopping season." ...

"The ability to add an accentuated level of security is what people are striving for," Chris Anne Wheeler, vice president of information services for ActivMedia, told the E-Commerce Times. Wheeler added, "The use of credit cards is a U.S. phenomenon. Most people don't want th...

Of course, eliminating the stock options and environmental perks and returning to a strictly salary-based approach to compensation does not solve the problem either. "You want to go to work where you enjoy the people, because you spend a lot of time there," Challenger told the E-Commerce Times.

Price tests conducted by the E-Commerce Times during Amazon's pricing experiment resulted in discounts of 30 to 40 percent. During one online session, the price for the DVD "Mission Impossible" was $17.99, a 40 percent discount. Several hours later, the price had risen to $20.99, a 30 percent discount.

"We have no position on these specific meetings," Paul Misener, Amazon VP of global public policy, told the E-Commerce Times. "But we certainly will be working next year with other companies and policy makers in the U.S. and elsewhere on online privacy issues." ...

"It wasn't a privacy issue at all. We're a small college and it was putting a tremendous strain on the system," Claire McCarthy, director of communications at the Cooper Union, told the E-Commerce Times. Media Metrix, Inc., part of Jupiter Media Metrix Company (Nasdaq: JMXI),...

Texas Assistant Attorney General Hal Morris told the E-Commerce Times that although Living.com had not yet taken out an advertisement on the lists, it was publicly known that its customer database would be on the auction block when the sale of the company's assets commenced. ...

"Online credit card fraud is projected to cost merchants $9 billion (US$) dollars annually by next year," Donahoo told the E-Commerce Times. ...

California state assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) told the E-Commerce Times that AB 2412 will be re-introduced in the California State Assembly. The proposed law would have required businesses with both a physical and online presence to levy the same taxes on all of their sales.

"In the summertime, people are away from their computers more, and that might have something to do with it," Silverman told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Even without falsified licenses, the Web makes it easy to obtain weapons. A reliable source within the Baltimore County Police Department told the E-Commerce Times of a sting conducted by the department, in which an undercover officer succeeded in buying a gun online without having to go through the waiting period or submit the paperwork mandated by the state of Maryland.

"VC firms want to invest in companies with proven management teams who can correct bumps in the road, people who can work through mistakes," Graunke told the E-Commerce Times. "Youthful exuberance was great and effective a year ago, but not as leaders. Venture capitalists want people that have been there before," he added.

"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 told the E-Commerce Times. "Billions of dollars are invested each week." In fact, there may be "more money available than ...

There might not be much demand for AltaVista as a stand-alone company, said David Menlow, president of IPOFinancial.com. After two failed attempts to go public, "this offering is damaged goods in the eyes of investors," Menlow told the E-Commerce Times. ...

The online bill payment market is more complex than e-tailing, Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times, because third-party bill paying services must contract with individual billers, gather the billing information, and then present it online in a secure fashion. The industry has ...

"You can't discount AMD and what they've done in the marketplace," Gartner Group analyst Mark Margevicius told the E-Commerce Times. "AMD is getting a lot of good press, and Intel's growth rate has been nothing short of phenomenal. At some point, you just can't keep up that rate." ...

"The companies don't want to let it go out now because they don't want their competitors out there trying to get it too," Holmes told the E-Commerce Times. "Delivery and transportation programs have become such a competitive advantage in the industry that companies don't want to let other people know what they can offer." ...

Classifying the case as a "large pump and dump scheme," Ronald Long, District Administrator at the SEC's Philadelphia District Office, told the E-Commerce Times that "individuals who rely on financial information from chat rooms and message boards do so at their absolute peril. They are almost guaranteeing themselves a financial loss." ...

The RIAA could not speculate on the accuracy of the Forrester numbers without knowing what methodology the analysts used. Creighton told the E-Commerce Times that Forrester analysts did not contact the RIAA for information regarding copyright infringement and that he is unsure if the numbers take into account the RIAA's anti-piracy efforts.

"If you look at the reality as presented in this study, businesses aren't the one getting bilked here," Wheeler told the E-Commerce Times. According to Wheeler, consumers are the real victims of shady dealing, especially with the abuses common at online auctions. Wheeler said...