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Raising questions about the Internet's ability to sell tickets to major international events, technical problems on the official site of soccer's 2002 World Cup have left fans in the co-host countries of Japan and Korea unable to order tickets online for the championship of the world's most popular sport ...

Amid labor strife at well-known e-tailers Amazon.com and Webvan, another target of unionization in the dot-com world, consumer electronics site Etown, announced this week that it was laying off its entire staff of around 100 employees and closing down its Web site operations. ...

Brick-and-click sellers dominated the online holiday season in the UK,according to a new study released this week by Nielsen//NetRatings. ...

U.S. lawmakers are considering the launch of a federally funded e-commerce pilot program designed to helpsmall and mid-sized manufacturers take their businesses online. ...

When you examine the state of e-commerce today, one thing is abundantly clear: traditional brick-and-mortars are making the greatest inroads online. ...

In response to several lengthy January outages, online auction pacesetter eBay announced Thursday that it is increasing the scope of the fee credits it offers customers in the event of a site crash ...

If dot-coms are looking to find a scapegoat for their ongoing struggles, the Nasdaq Composite Stock Index makes an easy target. ...

Nominations for the Oscars -- the film industry's most glamorous honor -- are big business. ...

The news this week that MVP.com isclosing its site and selling the remaining assets to rival Sportsline.com came as no surprise to those familiar with the rash ofconsolidations sweeping through the online sporting goods arena. ...

Take a look around Dot-Com Island. There isn't an e-tail site still alive that hasn't been affected by the recent shakeout to some degree. However, some of the Web merchants are more likely to survive than others ...

E-commerce is being beaten up with bad press again. First it wasbabies being sold over the Net, then brokerages being warned for their questionableonline business practices. ...

Despite a fourth-quarter 2000 loss that came in just ahead of Wall Street expectations, Amazon.com announced Tuesday that it is laying off 1,300 workers -- 15 percent of its total staff -- and closing a distribution center in McDonough, Georgia and a customer service center in Seattle, Washington. ...

As recently as a year ago, it was an easy decision for a top-level executive to join a Net company. Sure, they would work extra hard and take a lower base salary, but in the long run, their insanely generous stock option plans would be well worth the toil ...

The ability to use an Internet auction to solicit sealed electricity contract bids played a crucial role in helping bring some order to California's protracted energy crisis, state officials told the E-Commerce Times ...

Seventy-five percent of children are willing to discloseprivate family information online in exchange for goods and services, according to a new report released by eMarketer. ...

Following one of the hottest trends in e-commerce, Internet grocer Webvan.com announced Monday it has joined forces with another e-tail site, in this case Petsmart.com, to open a pet store on the Webvan site. ...

Even with its slender gain of 1.89 points Friday, the Nasdaq composite stock index has risen nearly 300 points since 2001 began -- a 12.1 percent improvement in 13 business days ...

Northern California buckled under the impact of rolling blackouts for thesecond day in a row Thursday, but Internet retailers based in the Silicon Valley say they have not suffered any power outages or lost sales -- yet ...

Most Net users and e-commerce watchers haven't heard a great dealabout CDNow lately. But that mightbe the way the former high-flier wants it ...

In a bid to survive the ongoing dot-com shakeout, Drkoop.com (Nasdaq: KOOP) said Tuesday that it will cut 45 workers primarily in its Austin, Texas offices and move the company's headquarters to Santa Monica, California. ...