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Despite the importance business-to-business (B2B) dealings have in the e-commerce picture, several myths and misperceptions still exist, according to analysts. In a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times dispels the seven deadly myths of B2B. Myth #1: B2B is about the money. In fact, B2B is not ab...

iVillage.com will cut more jobs over the next couple of months as it shoots to break even on a pro forma basis in the third quarter of this year, executives of the New York City-based women's Internet network said. The "rightsizing" will include a reduction in the company's workforce over the nex...

The Consumers' Association, a British advocacy group that campaigns to increase online security, said Friday that it suffered a security breach in its TaxCalc software site that left the credit-card information of nearly 3,000 customers exposed to unauthorized third parties. The security flaw aff...

We all knew the century had officially turned in my town when the local race track started accepting bets via the Internet. Lawmakers will still fight it, moralists will continue to badmouth it and compulsive gamblers will quickly max out their plastic, but online gambling appears headed for day...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday that it has sued another Internet pyramid scheme that conned thousands of consumers. "Defendants operate what is commonly known as a 'pyramid scheme' that enriches the defendants at the expense of the majority of the participants in their s...

Databases at online credit-card processing and security provider Anacom Communications were illegally accessed this week, Anacom's parent company ZixIt Corporation confirmed Thursday. ZixIt said that it took control of the entire Anacom premises and began forensic data analysis on the breach Mon...

T1msn, a joint venture of Microsoft and Mexican phone company Telmex, said Thursday it is acquiring Yupi Internet and launching YupiMSN, a Spanish-language portal. With the acquisition, T1msn, whose audience has grown to more than 5 million unique users since its launch a year ago, will expand i...

Following in the footsteps of private industry, the U.S. government is turning to e-business to fuel its supply chain, improve its employment programs and dispose of its surplus goods. "We're seeing government start to use some of [the] mechanisms private companies have already been using," Joh...

In order to steer long-term revenue growth, businesses need to begin using the Internet to move all of their company operations as close as possible to customers and suppliers, or risk being edged out of the game by competitors, according to a report released Wednesday by GartnerG2. To this end,...

Auto dealers are not using the Internet to their best advantage when seeking to lure customers to their dealerships, according to a study released Wednesday by research firm J.D. Power and Associates. A key issue is that car dealers generally do not have a good idea of how they can use Internet-...

Travelocity.com and Yahoo! announced Wednesday that they have inked a deal to create interactive multimedia broadcast centers for Travelocity customers. While some might see Travelocity's announcement as a desperate bid to compete with travel mega-site Orbitz, Morningstar.com analyst Langdon Heal...

Looking to narrow the gap between television and e-commerce, Internet portal Yahoo! said Thursday it is expanding its relationship with ValueVision International, the third-largest home shopping network. ValueVision said it plans to re-launch its cable home-shopping network and online companion...

Undaunted by consistent reports of hackers, consumer data being compromised online, and technological loopholes, my credit-card numbers are all over the Internet. I shop regularly at the Web sites of a number of small merchants, as well as those of mega-stores. Clothes, books, luxury gifts -- I'v...

The era of e-business profitability has begun, but the gap between the most and least successful Internet companies is growing wider, according to a study released Tuesday by McKinsey & Company. "Not all dot-coms deserve their current beating from investors," said McKinsey consultant Tilman...

A new trial date in November has been set in the copyright infringement case brought by Tee Vee Tunes against MP3.com, after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case Tuesday, citing a mathematical error by the jury. In April, a jury found that MP3.com must pay TVT $292,000 for copyright in...