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The Attorney General's office told the E-Commerce Times that it has scheduled a meeting with DoubleClick sometime in the next two weeks to discuss the issue in more detail. Last week, DoubleClick Chief Executive Kevin O'Connor said in a statement, "We commit today, that until...

However, in an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Mary Brett Whitfield, Principal Consultant and Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers' E-Retail Intelligence System, said that the @plan survey shows that only nine percent of shoppers are "much less likely" to shop online.

Today's agreement is a step toward "creating the momentum needed to take e-billing mainstream," Derivion chief marketing officer Read Ziegler told the E-Commerce Times. The top 250 billers already have systems in place, automating three to four of the 17 bills a typical consumer gets each month, he said.

Karen Sack, a retail industry analyst at Standard & Poor's, told the E-Commerce Times that, "Wal-Mart.com represents the single most exciting opportunity on the Internet today. There is a revolution going on in the way that people shop and communicate. The opportunity to play a significant role in applying the Wal-Mart brand to this new medium is simply once in a lifetime." ...

But in a preemptive move reported in the E-Commerce Times earlier this week, AOL and Time Warner promised to open their cable television lines to other competing online services. "The consumer really wants more choice than an AOL service on Time Warner systems," Time Warner's...

By the way, Michigan assistant Attorney General Tracy Sonneborn told the E-Commerce Times that DoubleClick has hired Michigan's Frank J. Kelley for representation. Sonneberg said that he was the Attorney General in Michigan for 37 years, possibly making him the longest serving Attorney General ever.

The NRF Index captured purchasing in 24 separate categories. The E-Commerce Times has combined these categories into segments as follows: Software, books, music, videos and flowers was $711.3 million, or 26 percent of the $2.8 billion total.

The firm added that it is working with federal authorities to investigate the online break-in. In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times last month, FBI special agent Charles Neal, who heads the Los Angeles computer crime squad, said that while it is difficult to catch such criminals, it is certainly possible -- especially if an individual or small group is responsible.

One merchant told the E-Commerce Times that these rules might force smaller e-tailers off the Web. However, he added that he was told that MasterCard only plans to fine larger merchants that the company believes to have lax credit card authorization policies ...

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Tracy Sonneborn, an assistant attorney general in the consumer protection division, said that Michigan has scheduled a meeting with DoubleClick in the next couple of weeks to discuss its threatened action. Sonneborn said that while M...

"We think that if viewers see Monica wearing a dress on 'Friends,' they might go out to the site and buy a similar dress," Bluefly Executive Vice President Jonathan Morris told the E-Commerce Times Tuesday. "We believe there is an affinity there that you just don't have in other online marketing arrangements." ...

As reported earlier this month by the E-Commerce Times, travel trade association The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) formally requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) block the sale of airline tickets by 27 U.S. and foreign carriers on an industry-wide Web site.

In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, FBI special agent Charles Neal, who heads the Los Angeles computer crime squad, said that while it is difficult to catch such criminals, it is certainly possible -- especially if an individual or small group is responsible.

In the following exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Scott Gordon, director of intrusion detection for security solutions provider AXENT Technologies (Nasdaq: AXNT), discusses e-commerce security issues and offers a blueprint for what companies can do to protect themselves as they transfer their business operations online.

Additionally, as reported this month in the E-Commerce Times, Forrester Research now predicts that Internet taxation is inevitable. The more vocal opponents to a permanent ban on taxation become, the more likely it is that the moratorium will either end or be modified, Forrester said.

The E-Commerce Times, the world's leading e-commerce news portal, has been selected by Forbes Magazine as one of the top ten technology news sites on the Internet. The ranking appears in Forbes "Best of the Web" Spring Edition, dated February 28, 2000 Forbes chose the E-Commer...

As the E-Commerce Times reported throughout 1999, executive shakeups came in response to these difficulties. The company hired John Barbour in September 1999 as CEO of Toysrus.com and committed $80 million to develop the site. The online subsidiary then staged a spectacular c...

NextCard CEO Jeremy Lent, for example, recently told the E-Commerce Times that success in the online financial services market has only come after developing special procedures for instantly issuing credit to customers without compromising security. He said that his firm can ...

For example, ProFlowers.com told the E-Commerce Times before the holiday that it was "100 percent certain it could meet demand." However, Keynote found that the company failed to deliver one of three test orders that were placed. ProFlowers.com at least fared better than riva...

DOJ spokeswoman Christine Romano told the E-Commerce Times today that the agency has received the request, but has yet to review the allegations by ASTA. She said that a formal request is nothing more than a communication and that the DOJ will decide whether it merits further attention.