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Electronics e-tailer X10.com leapfrogged over Amazon.com and eBay in the May rankings of the Top 50 most visited Web sites, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. Driven by a "pop-up" and "pop-under" ad strategy that accounted for 95 percent of its traffic, X10.com move...

As the summer travel season gets underway and a new competitor -- airline-backed Orbitz -- enters the fray, online travel companies are bombarding consumers with new multimedia marketing pitches. However, analysts told the E-Commerce Times on Tuesday that even with the new TV and print ad campaig...

While most of us are busy breaking out our deck chairs and SPF 45 at this time of year, online toy companies are already counting down to their hottest time of the year -- the winter shopping season. E-commerce has been somewhat brutal to toy retailers, but though still volatile and unpredictab...

America Online and General Motors announced Wednesday that they are extending a marketing and advertising alliance to push for the sale of the automaker giant's cars on the Internet. As part of the "multimillion dollar" agreement, the companies will continue to promote GM's full line of cars and...

Hoping to prevent customers from straying, and perhaps laying the groundwork for an e-tailer browser war, Half.com launched a price-comparison shopping feature Tuesday that alerts shoppers who click into a competitor's inventory that the item they're looking for is available back at Half.com. A...

Roughly 70 percent of large firms will fall prey to a handful of "significant business traps" -- including the fumbling of e-commerce opportunities -- that will hamper growth and perhaps destroy entire companies, predicted a report released Tuesday by GartnerG2, a new research service of Gartner ...

Duet, the online music venture backed by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (UMG), has been renamed Pressplay, the companies said Monday. Webnoize analyst Joel Karp told the E-Commerce Times that the renaming, as well as the appointment of two UMG executives to run Pressplay, coul...

News item: One of the richest people in Hong Kong plunks down a few million dollars to buy a bigger slice of potential turnaround story Priceline. Cause for optimism? You bet. Can we go so far as to say now that there's a reason to believe the bad days are all over for the name-your-price e-tail...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is implementing a new plan to crack down on Web sites selling fraudulent cures for terminal diseases such as cancer and AIDS. The FTC said that on Thursday, it will announce a new round of law enforcement actions to stem the tide of fraudulent marketing of ...

The European Commission (EC) is investigating potential anti-competitive aspects of two major new online music ventures, Duet and MusicNet, an EC official said Monday. Speaking at the third European Union (EU) Competition Day, EC competition minister Mario Monti said that the EC is investigating ...

While many e-tailers have scaled back on promotional offerings such as free shipping in recent months to cut costs, a study released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix said that the return of paid shipping is driving away Web shoppers. "As profitability becomes increasingly important, it is perfectly...

While many e-tailers have scaled back on promotional offerings such as free shipping in recent months to cut costs, a study released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix said that the return of paid shipping is driving away Web shoppers. "As profitability becomes increasingly important, it is perfectly...

While many e-tailers have scaled back on promotional offerings such as free shipping in recent months to cut costs, a study released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix said that the return of paid shipping is driving away Web shoppers. "As profitability becomes increasingly important, it is perfectly...

Although sites that offer Internet services like free e-mail are growing fast, search engines, portals and online communities account for the bulk of all online traffic in the United States, according to a report released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings. One out of every three Americans visits a po...

Auction leader eBay launched its much-anticipated storefronts project, known as eBay Stores, on Monday. The project will begin with a two-week pilot program involving leading eBay sellers, and will be available to all qualified sellers starting June 18th. Designed to give a sense of the range o...