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Five months after unveiling one of the Internet's first home appliances, 3Com said Wednesday that it will discontinue offering its Web-surfing "nerve center for the home," dubbed "Audrey," in an effort to cut costs and reach profitability ...

Despite mounting evidence that the global economy is slowing, total worldwide retail e-commerce is expected to reach US$550 billion in 2001, a 92 percent increase from 2000, according to a report released Tuesday by eMarketer ...

Two weeks after announcing it was laying off 77 employees to cut costs, computer software and hardware e-tailer Egghead.comsaid its chief financial officer, John Labbett, is leaving to "pursue a new opportunity closer to his home in Los Angeles." ...

Online toy sales are on track to grow from US$793 million in 2000 to$1.2 billion by 2002, according to a report released Wednesday by The NPD Group ...

Amazon jumped ahead of eBay during the month of February tobecome e-commerce's most visited Web site, according to a study releasedTuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

With the deadline for filing U.S. tax returns barely a month away, Intuit and H&R Block have shown no sign of abandoning their dominant status in the online tax preparation and filing sector ...

They say that for the one-year anniversary, paper is the appropriate gift ...

Federal prosecutors issued an indictment on Friday against three eBay usersfor self-bidding on their own art auctions in an attempt to spike bidprices. ...

Idealab!, the dot-com incubator behind eToys, CarsDirect and Petsmart.com, said Wednesday that it is moving some of its Silicon Valley functions to the company's Pasadena, California headquarters. The move may result in a number of job cuts over the next few months ...

Perhaps the tone for eToys' imminent farewell from e-commerce was set in February, when the online retailer specifically warned investors that its own stock was "worthless." ...

Southwest Airlines confirmed Monday that it has stopped offering its flights through online travel company Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) -- the second jolt to Travelocity's operations in less than a week ...

There's only one directive that seems to hold true across the e-commerce landscape these days: to survive, literally, at all costs. ...

As the dot-com shakeout nears the one-year mark, many companies might have a bad case of the E-Commerce Blues ...

Royal Ahold, the parent company of online grocer Peapod, has infused the struggling e-tailer with an additional US$30 million in financing, Peapod announced Wednesday. ...

For the first time in eight months, the dot-com layoff trend appears to beslowing, falling 9 percent in February, according to a report released Tuesday by the job placement firmof Challenger, Gray and Christmas ...

According to published reports, Internet service provider Microsoft Networkis considering charging users access fees for select content provided via its UK Web portal within the next year ...

Layoffs. Consolidations. Tumbling stock prices. When will the madness end? ...

Internet auctioneer eBay will be looking for more than the usual exposure when it combines with its real world auction arm, Butterfields, to auction a series of five nude Marilyn Monroe photographs online in March ...

Illustrating the extent of evolution that online business is facing, a report released Wednesday by IDC found that the number of private corporate Web portals might eventually surpass the number accessible by the public via the Internet ...

In October, about six months into the dot-com stock downturn, the E-Commerce Times asked industry analysts for their prognosis of several of e-commerce's most prominent stocks. The stocks had fallen so low, we could not help wondering, "When Will E-Commerce Stocks Rebound?" ...