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Traditionally, when companies announce financial results on a Friday, it is likely that they are hoping to attract as little attention as possible to their results. This Friday, iMall (Nasdaq: IMAL), released its 1998 fourth quarter financials, indicating that the e-commerce mall developer lost more...

the South by Southwest Interactive Festival proved anything, it's that the future of music distribution is rather unclear. A Tuesday panel on the MP3 debate, which featured Michael Robertson, the founder and CEO of MP3.com, and Paula Batson of AT&T, quickly turned into a heated debate with spect...

Your success has politicians salivating. Politicians sniff out contributors the way French hunting dogs sniff out truffles. Juicy controversies demanding action are the bait for their hook. You, sir or madam, are the fish, the big game in the Great Game, and for the year 2000 the game is already a...

CDnow (Nasdaq: CDNW) and N2K (Nasdaq: NTKI) announced on Thursday the completion of the planned merger between the two companies, which they describe as resulting in the "leading global music e-commerce company as measured by customer base, revenue, positioning with key partners and product offering...

3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS), the second largest networking equipment manufacturer, is projecting that its revenue from online, business-to-business transactions will increase from 30 percent today, to 80 percent by the end of this year. The company also expects to save $100 million (US$) by shif...

No one likes paying taxes. But no one likes bumpy roads or getting mugged either. The fact is that (for good or ill) much of America's state and local government spending is funded by sales taxes. But most Internet transactions are free of sales tax. Web stores are treated the same way direct mail...

The goal of many businesses is to create brand loyalty and attract lifetime customers who will eventually spend thousands of dollars over many years. This is what makes web-savvy college students such attractive targets for e-commerce companies.

In putting $750 million into Go2Net this week, Paul Allen has stuck a fork in one of the hoariest Internet myths, namely that in this market you're either number one or nowhere.

Search leader Yahoo! enhanced its own e-commerce efforts by delivering transaction capabilities to its small merchants and signing CyberShop as a new anchor tenant in its growing mall.

A spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin told the E-Commerce Times that the Louisiana Republican was serious last week when he warned Web merchants that states and localities will win the right to impose sales taxes on their transactions.

There's no doubt that streaming media is going to affect how we purchase information and entertainment in the next millennium. However, the problem with this kind of new media right now is that it's often simply a pain for consumers. Downloading can be tedious, and sometimes unbearably slow. Right n...

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) announced today that it will build an e-commerce portal for small independent bookstores, that will be located at Booksense.com.

Video Pipeline Inc., of Haddonfield, New Jersey, a long-time provider of in-store video promotions, is now offering the service to Internet based storefronts.

If you're involved in music, or any technology that must be streamed, the present battle over the MP3 format deserves a close look.

Database and Internet solutions heavyweight Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced on Thursday powerful third-quarter gains and key e-commerce deals. The company reported a whopping 36% increase in profits for the quarter ending February 28, 1999, and major contracts with e-commerce leaders lik...