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Engage, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENGA) picked up 0.06 to 1.19 Thursday after the company, which provides online marketing software and interactive media services, said it will lay off half its employees in a move to cut costs. Engage said it plans to integrate its businesses and operating units into a "single...

Ashford.com (Nasdaq: ASFD) was up 0.093 at 0.562 in early trading Friday, a 20 percent gain, after the luxury goods e-tailer announced a renewed alliance with Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN). Ashford said it will continue to offer Amazon's more than 25 million customers a range of goods through the end o...

Toysrus.com announced Thursday that its online sales for the nine weeks leading up to Christmas totaled US$124 million, a 218 percent increase over the previous year's holiday season. The good vibes coming from Toysrus.com differ considerably from those of 12 months ago, when it was one of several...

The fact is that when DotComGuy emerged from his self-imposed cyber-captivity, the world reacted with deafening silence, a big old yawn. And for good reason. DotComGuy did prove that the Web could provide a soul with all its worldly needs. He proved that man could live by Internet access alone. But...

In a bid to capture a share of the emerging market for electronic books, Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) said Thursday that it has created an e-publishing division that will offer authors a royalty rate higher than the rates offered by traditional publishing houses. The move will "create a dir...

FairMarket fell 0.12 to 1.56 Wednesday after the company, which provides dynamic-pricing services for companies doing business online, said fourth-quarter revenue will be below previous expectations as it writes off some "doubtful accounts." The Woburn, Massachusetts-based company said it neverthe...

Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq: INKT) was down 2.69 at 15.81 early Thursday after the company warned that revenue and earnings for the first quarter ended December 31st will be below previous expectations. The Foster City, California-based maker of Internet software said revenue for the quarter will be US$8...

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) rose 2.75 to 30.94 Wednesday, erasing an early loss following reports that analysts praised the company's decision to charge listing fees for its auctions. U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray repeated a buy rating on Yahoo!, saying the announcement signifies the "start of monetiza...

Hopefully, the major players in e-commerce have already made their most important resolutions -- No. 1 being to survive another year -- but here's a request for one final promise. No whining in 2001. That means no complaining when the media focuses on the dust-and-rubble of the shakeout rather tha...

Blue skies are ahead for e-commerce. Blue skies preceded by a few clouds and some heavy storms, to be sure, but ultimately blue skies. But first, ambitious e-tailers and those holding the purse strings must learn a few lessons about skillful planning, the art of business development, and oh, yes... ...

A surprise move Wednesday by the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates from 6.5 percent to 6 percent caused high-tech stocks to skyrocket during the day's second half of trading. The Nasdaq composite stock index surged 324.83, or 14.2 percent, to close at 2616.69. The rally represented the lar...

The new year has yet to bring many happy returns for high-tech stocks, which continued their stumble Tuesday amid long-standing earnings fears and concern about a cooling economy. Although a widespread tech stock sell-off in December helped reduce stock prices, wary investors spurned the bargain sh...

Troubled toy e-tailer eToys announced Wednesday that it is shutting down its European operations as of January 19th because of the "disappointing recent performance of the company as a whole" and poor market conditions. The move comes despite the company's status as the No. 1 toy e-tailer in Europ...

Last year, 210 Internet firms -- more than half of them e-commerce companies -- ceased operations, according to a report released Wednesday by merger and acquisitions tracking firm Webmergers.com. Webmergers said that 109 e-commerce firms folded their tents in 2000, along with more than 60 content...

Embattled e-tailer Priceline.com and insurance holding company W.R. Berkley Corporation announced Tuesday that they have shelved plans to sell automobile insurance over the Internet, saying that current market conditions are "not conducive to creating the new business." The companies, which are bo...