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An online transaction seems simple enough. You send your credit card information: they send you stuff. But increasingly, the company that takes your credit card information is not the one that sends you the goods. And still a different firm might answer the phone when you call to find out why you...

Online payments provider Ecount confirmed to the E-Commerce Times on Monday night that a hacker or hackers breached security at its Web payment site, Webcertificate.com.

Does an online shopping companion service have the right to substitute ads of its own choosing for the ads that other Web sites expect users to see? Welcome to the latest Internet advertising riddle. Tuesday, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) said that it intends to "immediately pursue op...

AOL Time Warner and tax preparer H&R Block said Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year, cross-promotional alliance. The deal makes H&R Block the exclusive tax-service provider for America Online properties. H&R Block's services will be featured on AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Money...

AOL Time Warner and tax preparer H&R Block said Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year, cross-promotional alliance. The deal makes H&R Block the exclusive tax-service provider for America Online properties. H&R Block's services will be featured on AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Money...

AOL Time Warner and tax preparer H&R Block said Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year, cross-promotional alliance. The deal makes H&R Block the exclusive tax-service provider for America Online properties. H&R Block's services will be featured on AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Money...

The controversial buyback of the Staples.com e-commerce unit by parent company Staples cleared its final hurdle Monday, when shareholders gave the deal their blessing. Shareholders who bought into the Staples.com tracking stock will get a handsome return on their investment. While the shares ori...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case it filed against spammers who collected consumers' personal information, including credit card information, by sending unsolicited commercial e-mails that told people they had to supply the data or lose access to the Internet. The sett...

A financial technology services firm on Monday unveiled Nopaperbills.com, a Web site where consumers and small businesses can receive, view and pay both electronic and paper bills over the Internet. However, an analyst at e-financial research and consulting firm Celent told the E-Commerce Times...

Ending weeks of speculation, online currency site Flooz.com closed for good over the weekend and announced it would file for bankruptcy. In a message posted on its site, Flooz blamed the shutdown on "dramatic changes in capital markets and the general slowdown in the economy." Although Flooz had...

A one-day airfare sale helped increase sales more than 70 percent at Travelocity.com, the travel site said Monday. Data released by the site and comScore Networks found that while the fare discounts on American Airlines tickets led to a 19 percent drop in prices, it also prompted a 71 percent ris...

A fertile market and a fertile territory for e-commerce -- online games and South Korea -- met up Monday when EA.com, the online gaming division of entertainment software maker Electronic Arts, announced plans to launch a localized version of its popular Ultima Online role-playing game in the Far...

The bad news for more than 40,000 dot-com workers came when their employers told them they were no longer needed. For some, the worse news might be the reception they get on the job market -- or the adjustment in expectations and work habits they have to make in order to find new employment. "W...

Buy.com said Thursday that its credit card processor has reversed an earlier decision to terminate the company's contract, after the e-tailer's founder agreed to provide Buy.com with an additional cash infusion. The threat of termination, which Buy.com revealed in a filing with the U.S. Securiti...

Aside from its obvious commercial potential, the greatest promise of e-commerce has always been its potential to be an all-inclusive forum. All of the interpersonal exchanges that seem to slight certain ethnic or minority groups offline were supposed to be less of a problem when doing business el...