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MyPoints.com (Nasdaq: MYPT) was up 1/32 at 1 7/32 early Friday after the company said its chief operating officer resigned. The San Francisco, California-based company, which operates online customer-loyalty programs, said president Layton Han will take responsibility for the company's day-to-day o...

3Com Corp. (Nasdaq: COMS) was up 19/32 at 7 25/32 early Friday after the company announced better-than-expected results for the second fiscal quarter and said it plans to operate its carrier networks business as a separate subsidiary. The Santa Clara, California-based maker of networking equipment ...

Bluefly (Nasdaq: BFLY) rose 9/32 to 23/32 Thursday after the e-tailer said revenue for the fourth quarter will be about 90 percent above the US$3.04 million seen in last year's fourth quarter. The New York-based company, which sells designer fashions and home furnishings at discount prices, also ex...

NetCreations, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCR) rose 2 9/32 to 6 21/32 Thursday after the e-mail marketing company said an unidentified suitor offered to buy the company for US$7 per share, beating a pending offer from DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK). NetCreations said directors found the other offer "superior," and ...

Online retail sales reached unprecedented levels in November, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. One study, the latest National Retail Foundation/Forrester Research Retail Index, found that total online spending increased to $6.4 billion in November, up from $4.4 billion in October. ...

Weren't we all supposed to be paying our bills with a simple point and click by now? Weren't the bricks and mortar of the traditional banking world supposed to fade away, like the rotary phone and the television knob? What happened to all those optimistic techno-prognosticators who told us that a...

With an eye toward appealing to the bargain-hunting segment of the Web population, Amazon.com said Wednesday it will open an Internet outlet mall during the post-Christmas shopping week. According to the company, the Amazon.com Outlet will provide online shoppers with a single location to shop for...

Approximately 27 million consumers who had planned in October to purchase holiday gifts on the Internet have since changed their mind, according to a study released Thursday by the Boston Consulting Group and Harris Interactive. The number of people buying online this holiday season is up, and buye...

In what could be a good omen for the overall health of holiday e-tailing, Outpost.com announced Wednesday that revenue for its third quarter more than doubled over last year. Outpost said it brought in US$95.7 million for the quarter ending November 30th, up 122 percent from the $43.2 million earn...

Although Internet advertising revenue during the third quarter experienced a 63 percent rise compared to the same period in 1999, income from Web-based ads still slid 6.5 percent from the second to third quarter this year, according to a study released Wednesday by the Internet Advertising Bureau (...

VitaminShoppe.com (Nasdaq: VSHP) rose 7/16 to 3/4 on Wednesday after the vitamin e-tailer said its majority shareholder offered to acquire the shares it does not already own for US$1 in cash apiece. The proposal from the shareholder group, VitaminShoppe Industries, Inc., is subject to board and sha...

CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI) fell 32/32 to 5 17/32 Wednesday following reports that executives at the company's annual meeting failed to reassure shareholders about prospects for the future. Chairman David Wetherell reportedly told shareholders at the meeting that directors had rejected an offer he ma...

Beleaguered name-your-price e-tailer Priceline got an early Christmas present Wednesday when the Connecticut Better Business Bureau (BBB) announced it had reinstated the company's membership. The Connecticut BBB expelled Priceline in September after reportedly receiving more than 300 complaints abo...

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) closed down 1/16 at 27 15/16 Wednesday after a pair of analyst downgrades pushed the stock as low as 25 1/2 in intraday trading. Analysts at CIBC World Markets and US Bancorp Piper Jaffray lowered their ratings on the stock to buy from strong buy amid increasing signs tha...

Note to e-tailers: Many seniors have sizeable incomes or nest eggs and like to travel, buy clothes, exercise, dine out, connect with other seniors who have similar interests and even date. Yes, date. Surely there are books and other products out there that appeal to the varied interests of senior sh...