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In a move apparently timed to capitalize on a slowdown in business travel, Yahoo! unveiled a service Thursday that will provide corporations with Internet broadcasting capabilities. Yahoo! Broadcast Services are designed to replace face-to-face meetings for business conferences, sales meetings a...

Amazon.com opened a travel store on its Web site Wednesday, featuring booking services and travel status information from travel site Expedia. "It makes perfect sense for Amazon to partner with one of the leading travel sites," Forrester Research analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Time...

A few days back, the founder of online grocery Webvan submitted the high bid, at least so far, to buy back the remains of his once-glorious creation. The bid could say one of many things: Maybe Louis Borders is still a believer in the power of his e-commerce platform to alter our lives. Or maybe h...

Car companies are moving their purchasing and other commerce activities online, taking advantage of new technology to cut costs in a slowing economy, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. "Manufacturers should look to the automotive industry to see growing trends in B2...

Faced with intense pressure to grow their businesses quickly, e-commerce executives have been forced to make countless critical decisions -- sometimes at odds with what had once been unassailable Old Economy practices. With online enterprises confronted by as many tests as ever, the E-Commerce Ti...

Music file-swapping network Napster inched closer to being reborn as a legitimate, paid service Monday when it announced a preliminary settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by songwriters and music publishers. Napster said it agreed to pay US$26 million to the National Music Publishers' Associ...

Pure-play e-tailer Drugstore.com said Friday that the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. should not hurt its third quarter financial results. Bellevue, Washington-based Drugstore.com also said it remains confident that it can achieve profitability before running out of cash. Drugstore....

When they write the definitive history book about the evolution of electronic commerce, 2001 may emerge as a pivotal year in the industry's growth. That may sound surprising, particularly since the year so far has seen a bunch of dot-coms dying on the vine, not to mention general skepticism among...

Despite the dot-com downturn, there is still room for small offline retailers on the Web and good reasons for them to be there, according to industry analysts. Gartner research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times that the real value of the Web to small retailers is its ability to pro...

As a country, the United States is just beginning to experience the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. One of the many consequences, even if not the most drastic, is the downturn in the travel industry. Online travel companies are suffering the effects of reduced levels of busi...

Timing is everything in life. And for Amazon.com, the timing lately couldn't be much worse. It's clear to anyone following along that Amazon is making a full-court press to get to pro forma profits in the fourth quarter, as it had said it would earlier in the year. And it's also clear to casual ...

General Motors says that eGM, the internal organization created to key GM's online business development, is a transient entity. GM's hope is to absorb the learnings of eGM, disperse them throughout the company, and evolve into a whole e-corporation. In Part 2 of her interview with the E-Commerce ...

In a vote of confidence for his company, Priceline.com chairman and chief executive officer Richard Braddock said Friday that he had ended a plan to sell some Priceline shares over the next year, and instead will exercise options to buy 750,000 shares. Braddock's move follows a similar announceme...

How many times have you stopped just short of completing an online order because you were not sure of a product's size, color or overall look? If you're like most online consumers, the answer is probably: many, many times. And e-tailers know it. As a possible solution, many e-tailers are turning ...

Automotive kingpin General Motors is serious about e-business. In 1999, GM created eGM, an internal organization intended to steer the company around costly e-mishaps and toward the best online business practices. Using the Web to draw customers is largely the job of eGM director of interactive m...