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Responding to pressure from anti-hate groups and concerned users, Yahoo! announced late Tuesday that beginning January 10th, it will ban auctions of Nazi artifacts and other items "that are associated with groups which promote or glorify hatred and violence." Although the Santa Clara, California-b...

Open Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMKT) closed Tuesday at 1 3/8, up 9/32, after the e-business software maker announced an alliance with IBM. Burlington, Massachusetts-based Open Market said the agreement with IBM Global Financing will allow it to provide customers with the option to finance hardware, sof...

WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) slipped 5/16 to 7 5/8 Tuesday after the online health company restructured a year-old partnership with News Corp., eliminating a pair of joint ventures. The move, part of a plan by WebMD to get rid of strategic partnerships that are not likely to benefit the company, will resul...

Global Sports, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSPT) was up 1/2 at 6 3/16 early Wednesday after the company, which develops and operates online sporting goods businesses, said it expects fourth-quarter results to exceed analysts' expectations. The King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based company said sales for the quar...

Of all the issues surrounding e-commerce, privacy is perhaps the most hotly debated. Everyone wants to protect privacy, but no one can agree on how. Resolution of the issue is going to take some work. Until people in the e-commerce world begin to grasp the concept of privacy as a social value, and...

In what could be the most optimistic in a flood of e-holiday sales estimates, a study released Tuesday by Goldman Sachs and PC Data Online shows that e-tailers managed to rack up almost US$10 billion during the just-concluded season. The report said that from the first week in November through Dece...

Consumers increased their online shopping by 46 percent in 2000, racking up about US$56 billion in sales for the year, according to data released Tuesday by ActivMedia Research. As part of its annual report gauging the performance of business-to-consumer (B2C) vendors, ActivMedia also found that ab...

E-tail giant Amazon.com and retail partner Toys 'R' Us dominated the online shopping arena this holiday season, as the companies' joint venture saw 123 million visitors -- more than five times the traffic of their closest competitor -- according to a report released Tuesday by Nielsen//NetRatings....

Intershop Communications AG, a European e-commerce software maker, plummeted 10 3/64 to 5 5/64 in early trading Tuesday after joining several of its U.S. counterparts in warning of weak results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year. The Hamburg, Germany-based company, which also has offices in San...

America Online said Tuesday that its members spent more than US$4.6 billion online during the holiday season and $20 billion for all of 2000. The latter figure is more than twice what was spent the year before. AOL said an internal survey of its members found that 75 percent purchased something...

Twenty-two percent of Americans who bought gifts on the Internet in 1999 decided against buying online in 2000, according to a survey released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey, which appears to run contrary to more bullish assessments of the just-concluded year, a...

Terra Lycos (Nasdaq: TRLY) was up 7/16 at 11 early Tuesday after the company said its Lycos portal saw traffic this holiday shopping season that was more than double that of last year's "very successful" holiday period. Referrals from the Lycos network generated more than 250 percent more revenue t...

Unfortunately, even though we're in a new economy, complete with new media, American men are being treated as if they're all Fred Flintstone. Many Web sites for men emphasize "guy" stuff, including sports, cars and yes, women, but it does not appear that a major effort has been mounted to truly capt...

Wall Street investment firm C.E. Unterberg Towbin decided last week to drop coverage of e-commerce stocks, claiming that the space wasn't making anybody any money. Some reports portrayed the move as a fitting way to end a year of very public struggles for the hearts and dollars of investors, which...

The early numbers themselves are reason to applaud, take a bow and celebrate: E-tail spending apparently doubled over last year's level. A 100 percent increase in anything is impressive, but what makes the numbers even more startling are the circumstances under which that increase happened. Becaus...