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Expedia has rejected a takeover bid from USA Interactive, the online travel service's largest shareholder. The snub was not entirely unexpected. Many company officials and shareholders had denounced USA Interactive's intentions to buy the remaining 37 percent of Expedia. USA Interactive head Barr...

Two PayPal shareholders have filed separate lawsuits related to eBay's acquisition of PayPal. The plaintiffs in both suits seek an injunction against the consummation of the deal, noting that the price eBay is paying for PayPal is unfair and inadequate. But Frost & Sullivan research analyst S...

Dell Computer has raised its revenue and earnings estimates for the second quarter, crediting growth in the U.S. education, government and consumer business markets. The company's announcement buoyed the tech-heavy Nasdaq after a string of dismal trading days in the overall market. However, Aberd...

In the not-too-distant future, e-commerce technology not only will become smarter and faster, but could completely transform the way companies deal with internal information, customer service and the sales process. This change will occur as new features bring together several separate technologie...

Fearing a monopoly by cable broadband companies and a resultant loss of freedom of speech, civil liberties groups said they will fight federal measures that would let cable Internet providers retain control of their networks and bar competing ISPs from using their lines. "No one is saying they ca...

A Canadian government agency has cleared Amazon.com to sell books through its newly launched Canadian Web site, saying the e-tailer is not subject to a law that regulates foreign investment in booksellers. But rival booksellers, including Canadian online competitor Indigo Books and Music and the ...

Yahoo! has reported second-quarter earnings of $225.8 million and net income of $21.4 million, outdoing year-ago figures, while online advertising revenue still accounted for the bulk of the company's income. Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times that a reboundin...

Before last spring, Major League Baseball's Internet efforts were as far-flung and varied as the league's 30 teams. And by and large, they struck out with Web surfers. But since relaunching MLB.com in April 2001 and bringing all of the teams' home pages under one roof, baseball's Web efforts have...

Ask Jeeves has joined forces with 24/7 Real Media's search engine marketing division to launch a paid inclusion service called Index Express. The service will match search queries from users "to the highly relevant deep content on an advertiser's Web site," according to Doug Wagner, president of ...

One of the latest trends in notebook computers represents a 180-degree turn from what manufacturers have been trying to do for years, which is to make devices ever smaller. Now, some laptop makers are betting that bigger notebooks will attract a certain segment of the market. And these new behemo...

Travel company Expedia has announced it will buy a privately held business travel agency and will use the acquisition as the core of an effort to enter the corporate travel market. Expedia did not disclose terms of its purchase of Metropolitan Travel, but it noted that the 20-year-old firm did $15...

In the afterglow of eBay's PayPal acquisition announcement, although the deal has few detractors, questions are being raised. They're somewhat tough questions, focusing on who, why and, perhaps most importantly, when. In the world after Enron, HomeStore, Tyco, Xerox and WorldCom, cynicism is to b...

When VeriSign launched in 1995, it touted itself as being the "only company focused 100 percent on digital authentication products and services." But since 2000, the company has ventured into several new markets. Recent earnings reports seem to indicate that VeriSign could be spread too thin, but...

On the heels of eBay's $1.5 billion PayPal acquisition, Microsoft is making its own play to compete in the online payment space. The software giant has announced a partnership that will allow banks to authenticate Visa and MasterCard credit cards with a shopper's Microsoft Passport username and p...

Multichannel retailing is on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, according to a new study published by Gartner. Of the 375 companies surveyed between September and December of last year, roughly 75 percent said that they currently have a multichannel retailing strategy (MRS) or are planning to imple...