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Media giant AOL Time Warner on Wednesday reported third-quarter pro forma earnings and revenue that topped expectations, though the company posted a net loss for the period ended September 30th as advertising revenue declined.

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. Yahoo! is the latest to dye its hair the same color as all the others. On Tuesday, the Internet portal unveiled a pl...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. Yahoo! is the latest to dye its hair the same color as all the others. On Tuesday, the Internet portal unveiled a pl...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. Yahoo! is the latest to dye its hair the same color as all the others. On Tuesday, the Internet portal unveiled a pl...

High-tech and e-business companies have rebounded nicely from the sales slowdown that followed the September 11th attacks on the United States, and the bigger, more diversified e-tailers should be able to meet third-quarter earnings targets, analysts say.

Commerce One said late Monday it will cut about 1,300 of its 2,800 jobs as it spins off some operations. The Pleasanton, California-based company, which makes e-commerce software and operates online purchasing exchanges, said that about 700 of the layoffs will be job eliminations primarily among ...

By now, observers of the various e-commerce markets can see what business models work online and which do not. Online travel sites? Check. Online bookstores? Check. Online music? At first glance, no. But guess what? Check.

If you wanted to triple your money in three years, are there technology investments that could help you do it? Not likely, say most analysts and portfolio managers. For returns like that, "go to Vegas," U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Jon Ekoniak told the E-Commerce Times.

While news sites dominated Internet use during September, one e-commerce company used a pop-up ad campaign to propel itself into the top tier of most-visited sites for the first time, according to data released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The pop-up ads propelled ABPharmacy.com to 33rd in Jup...

Consumers are becoming more interested in paying their bills online, though the number of people who actually do so remains low, said a report released Monday by the Yankee Group. "Considering the growth we've seen in the past, it's not a bad growth rate," Yankee director Paul Hughes told the E-C...

When money is being exchanged, chances are that somebody sometime is going to cheat. Unfortunately, that's the case whether the money is being spent for products, services or philanthropic causes. The process of exchanging money electronically is ripe for fraud.

Some weeks back, a Webvan stock certificate sold for US$500. The sale caused a minor stir, since the stock itself was worth something like 14 cents at the time. Some of these mementos may yet turn out to be worth something, a few years down the road, but my guess is that the MarchFirst Frisbees a...

Internet advertising agency DoubleClick has reported that its revenue dropped by nearly a third and that it posted a loss for the third quarter ended September 30th, saying that corporate spending cutbacks have pinched the company's business.

Most business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce technologies focus on automating the physical aspects of a company's fulfillment and order functions. However, the future success of B2B may lie in applications that hone in on the heart and soul of the Internet itself: the flow of information. For exam...

Web brokerage E*Trade said Wednesday that diversification efforts helped the company report an operating profit during the third quarter, despite a steep drop in online trading. E*Trade chairman and chief executive officer Christos Cotsakos said the profit came despite the five-day market shutd...