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Although people can argue over how old the Internet is, if you say 1994 was the birth year, the Web is 7 years old. The age that everyone agrees is the Age of Reason ...

The annual uproar among online consumers who try to return merchandise bought via the Internet generally occurs around the Christmas holidays, but some e-tailers make it tough on buyers all year long ...

For those who think Koogle, Singh, Rubenstein and Mallet is a law firm, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) wants you to know otherwise ...

Is it just me or is Amazon chief Jeff Bezos' wide-eyed, Andy Kaufman-like, perpetual grin starting to wear a little thin? ...

It was a news item that wasn't fully unexpected, yet it caught some e-commerce industry observers off guard ...

It was a news item that wasn't fully unexpected, yet it caught some e-commerce industry observers off guard ...

It was a news item that wasn't fully unexpected, yet it caught some e-commerce industry observers off guard ...

Change is in the air, and that is good news for e-commerce. Internet-based selling is about to start Act II. ...

News stories about dot-com layoffs and closures have so frequently stormed the business pages that many have become numb to the downside of e-commerce -- and have even stopped thinking about what to do about the decline ...

Are Americans ready to exchange "I dos" or pay their last respects to loved ones via the Internet? ...

As the New Economy fights its way into mainstream American commerce, minority-owned businesses are experiencing a struggle similar to the one they have endured offline for years ...

Once again, e-commerce is getting just a bit too comfortable with itself. Just when the dot-com shakeup seems to be leveling off, surviving companies are neglecting one of the key issues that could prove to be its undoing: children's privacy ...

If you blinked last month, you might have missed a small item in the news about venerable entertainment trade publication "Variety." The company's Web site, Variety.com has started charging users for content. ...

Did you ever wonder where old comedians go when their schtick no longer draws crowds? If you think Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, George Carlin and Rich Little have simply vanished, then it may be worth a trip to Laugh.com. ...

Pundits, powerhouses and assorted talking heads were already predicting the demise of retail e-commerce before the current economic downturn. Now, with the conventional wisdom suggesting more doom and gloom, the word on the street -- yes, that Street -- is that e-commerce was great fun, but it was just one of those passing fads ...

Just when you may have believed Hugh Hefner was fading from the public consciousness, here comes the news that the 75-year-old founder of Playboy Magazine will launch a major online casino by the end of this year ...

Amid the unfortunate prognostications about the fate of e-commerce sites, smart marketers are setting their sites on capturing untapped markets ...

After surviving the dot-com shakeout and now a slowing economy, many e-tailers are too distracted to remember one of the essentials of running a smart business: Listen to the customer ...

Online delivery service Kozmo.com appears to be quietly re-tooling itself, with a tip of the technological hat to the "old economy." ...

By most accounts, last year's holiday season was an encouraging time for e-tailers, especially those Web sites that managed to make gift buying hassle-free.With the exception of online clothing merchants. ...