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Is e-commerce finally and unquestionably here to stay? With rejuvenated stocks, high-profile strategic alliances, television advertisements, and an overall sense of acceptance from consumers and the business community, the arrows point in that direction. By small steps and not the big, noisy le...

E-shoppers remain a forgiving lot when it comes to e-tail outages, according to analysts, if those interludes are not too frequent. "As long as outages are not consistent and persistent, e-tailers should be okay," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. Kelley ad...

Career search Web site Monster.com extended its European reach Friday, with the announcement that it intends to acquire one of Europe's largest online professional search companies, Jobline International. Monster's offer to purchase US$115 million in Jobline stock would add five new European coun...

Most small businesses in Australia are "barely active" in e-commerce because they are not fully convinced of its benefits, according to a new report from the Australian arm of IDC. The market research firm said that 56 percent of small businesses surveyed currently have no Internet-related reven...

Internet auctioneer QXL Ricardo reported a smaller loss for its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31st and announced a new partnership with Microsoft on Friday. The agreement will make QXL's services available over the software maker's Windows XP operating system and instant messaging service Win...

With the survival of the company still very much in question, Webvan announced some good news for a change Thursday, saying that it has completed the integration into its technology and business platform of acquisitions the company made last year. Webvan said the consolidation, which included fo...

Capping a week of restructuring initiatives, BlueLight.com said Thursday that chief executive officer Mark H. Goldstein has stepped down from his post at the online affiliate of retail giant Kmart. "The next chapter for BlueLight is about further optimizing Kmart economics, not focusing on indep...

Adding to the recent flurry of Internet fraud news, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told Congress on Wednesday it received over 25,000 Internet fraud complaints in 2000. Testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Eileen Harrington of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Pr...

Online business-to-business (B2B) sellers need to provide more comprehensive services in order to cement customer loyalty, boost revenue and create value for B2B e-commerce, a study released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix found. "Closer working relationships will bring new efficiencies that wil...

BlueLight.com announced Wednesday that it is paring its staff and planning to rely more heavily on the resources of its majority investor, Kmart Corporation. BlueLight said the strategic actions were designed to improve the e-tailer's overall efficiencies and accelerate its "march towards profit...

Amazon.com will add two members to its board of directors and is seeking people experienced in retail operations, chief executive officer Jeff Bezos told shareholders Wednesday. At Amazon's annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, Bezos told stockholders and reporters that the e-tailer is turning...

The forces of digital evil could be lurking nearby at any time. Those forces show up in the form of Internet fraud, and even those who should be protecting you are coming up short in the war on the perpetrators. Some encouraging news did come Wednesday, when U.S. agencies filed charges against 90 p...

Criminal charges have been brought against approximately 90 individuals and companies as part of a nationwide crackdown on online fraud schemes that victimized over 56,000 people, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Wednesday. The schemes -- which inclu...

Internet travel agency Travelocity.com said Wednesday that it has sold its stake in online discount hotel broker Hotel Reservations Network. Travelocity spokesperson Jennifer Tweeton told the E-Commerce Times the company sold its 9.4 percent stake in HRN simply to "monetize its investment and turn i...

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) plans to reduce its stake in name-your-own-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), although a Priceline spokesman said the planned sale of shares is not significant and does not change the business relationship between the two companies. Delta reportedly filed with...