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When you examine the state of e-commerce today, one thing is abundantly clear: traditional brick-and-mortars are making the greatest inroads online. According to research firm Media Metrix, six of the top 10 gaining retail sites for the holiday shopping season were traditional offline brands suc...

Despite an estimated plunge of more than 80 percent in auction listings since Yahoo! started charging users a listing fee, the Internet giant maintains that the effects of the change have been positive. A Yahoo! spokesperson told the E-Commerce Times that the company was "very pleased" with th...

E-commerce kiosks: Before too long, every retailer will have one in the corner of the store. But will any of the customers know what to do with them? Every day, the question becomes more and more pertinent. Staples, Kmart and Barnes & Noble have already started down the kiosk path. But one t...

Beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com announced Tuesday that chief executive officer and chairman of the board Gregory Hawkins and chief financial officer Mitch Hill had resigned for unspecified reasons. "The realities of the marketplace demand that we drive vigorously toward profitability," said James ...

PurchasePro.com (Nasdaq: PPRO) rose US$2.70 to $18.62 in morning trading Tuesday after soaring past analyst estimates for the fourth quarter ended December 31st. Credit Suisse First Boston reportedly reiterated a strong buy rating on PurchasePro shares following the news, while ABN Amro reportedly ...

Quokka Sports (Nasdaq: QKKA) was up 6 U.S. cents at 25 cents in early trading Tuesday after the online sports company said it would restructure its operations, letting go 59 percent of its 369-person workforce and taking a $1 million charge to first-quarter results. San Francisco, California-based...

QXL Ricardo (Nasdaq: QXLC) was down 38 U.S. cents at $3.88 in morning trading Tuesday, as the European online auctioneer reported a wider loss for the third quarter ended December 31st. The company, based in London, said it lost 41.05 million pounds in the quarter, compared with a loss of 25.63 m...

Millions of car shoppers do not buy cars online because automakers are misfiring with their marketing efforts, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester Research. Car sites overwhelm potential shoppers with information, rather than carefully guiding them through the shopping process to...

For some people, testifying before the U.S. Congress might be a moment of historical glory. But usually, especially lately, it seems to mean you did something wrong. When you're being put on the defensive, testifying has to be a little scary. Which is why it was heartwarming for most of us to se...

The latest step of the dot-com move toward brick-and-clicks is the Internet kiosk placed in a real-world store. Surprisingly, in-store web kiosks have some advantages over at-home online shopping.

Amazon.com launched a new software download store Monday, aimed at providing customers with near-instant access to products it already sells by mail. Customers who need the latest virus protection software to rescue an infected personal computer, for instance, are probably not willing or able to...

Fewer than 100 of the 500 European business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces currently in existence will survive over the coming years, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter MMXI Europe. Even so, the report predicted that online B2B trade in Europe would grow from US$185 million, or ...

Another legal volley was fired Thursday in the international battle over Yahoo! auctions of Nazi memorabilia. The France-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) has filed a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit that Yahoo! filed in a U.S. court in December contesting ...

E-commerce has hit a dangerous curve because the venture capitalists who were driving it have found the freeway off-ramp. According to the National Venture Capital Association, venture capitalists have decreased their investments across the U.S. a whopping 31 percent from the third quarter to ...

Although the Internet advertising industry has taken a hit in recent months, a report released Thursday finds that online firms should not be so quick to scale back their Web-based marketing efforts in a bid to trim operating budgets. According to data from online measurement firm Jupiter Media Me...