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Homestore.com, the dominant Web real estate player, on Thursday reported a third-quarter financial loss double the estimates of analysts, due largely to a plunge in advertising revenue. Homestore stock fell 54.3 percent Friday to $2.28 per share in the wake of the news, which also included a dour...

Internet job losses climbed more than 60 percent in October to 4,840 cuts after five straight months of decline, according to a report released Wednesday by Challenger, Gray and Christmas (CGC). "The impact of September 11 has rippled through the dot-com sector, as it has in almost all industries...

It's been three months since Webvan delivered its last order. But still the dead dot-com keeps haunting e-commerce, even as its casket is lowered into the ground. The latest chapter in the Webvan haunting is the two-day going, going, gone auction of what's left of its headquarters. Even though ...

Discount online travel company Hotwire said Wednesday that sales and daily transactions have returned to the levels seen before the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. Almost 1 million new users have registered with the year-old site since September 11th, "demonstrating the com...

It's one of the oldest forms of communication, but word-of-mouth remains a potent marketing force in the digital age. E-commerce experts say that pass-it-along marketing -- also known as viral marketing -- is a highly effective way to create online buzz for new products and services. Analysts tol...

A Nielsen//NetRatings study this year concluded that women use the Net differently than men. According to NetRatings, women spend less time online per session, but they sign on knowing what they want and sign off once they have found it. How are marketers responding to this trend, and are they re...

Consumers who shop on the Net prefer e-tailers that make buying online convenient over those that offer low prices, according to a survey released Wednesday by Internet research firm Gartner (NYSE: IT). The survey, conducted by Gartner's G2 division, found that 81 percent of online shoppers said th...

Online shoppers will spend approximately US$11.9 billion dollars during 2001 holiday season on Web retail and travel -- an 11 percent increase over last year's $10.8 billion dollars, according to a report released by Internet measurement and analysis firm Jupiter Media Metrix. Although growth thi...

Continental Airlines sent shudders through the online travel world by saying it would no longer pay commissions for fares sold on certain Web sites. This is not the first time such a declaration has been made by an airline, and the big fear is that it won't be the last. Perhaps even during these ...

Want to write a plan for an e-business that will impress post-shakeout investors? Start with a business that makes money, experts say, and then explore how the Web can help your business succeed. "Treat your e-business like any business startup," Al Napier, a professor of e-business and entrepre...

Auction powerhouse EBay on Monday repeated its goal, set one year ago, of reaching US$3 billion in revenue by 2005, saying growth in all its businesses remains strong. However, the company disappointed some analysts and investors by predicting that 2002 revenue will total $1.05 billion to $1.1 bi...

Amazon.com has taken its search for a revenue boost to the newsstand, announcing the launch of a magazine subscription store Tuesday. The magazine outlet launch comes just days before the holiday shopping season begins in earnest, later this week.

Hard times have come to the e-commerce software industry -- and they've come with a vengeance. "Everyone's suffering right now," Aberdeen Group analyst David Alschuler told the E-Commerce Times. "It's affecting every vendor. But really the ones with smaller market shares and less liquidity are go...

Beleaguered computer e-tailer Egghead.com, which has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since August, suspended all of its operations late last week and indefinitely halted all commercial activity. "Our plan had been to sell the assets of the business as a going concern and con...

London-based travel site Ebookers.com said Monday it has recorded its first-ever operating profit, a milestone achieved six months ahead of schedule despite the slowdown in business following the September 11th terrorist attacks. With one-time charges included, the travel site lost about $5.5 mil...