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According to a study released Monday by business services firm Ernst & Young, Canadian consumers plan to spend 14 percent of their holiday shopping funds online -- a 100 percent increase over last year's level but still less than half as much as their American counterparts. Despite the lag, res...

The frenzy over locating Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) video game consoles is fostering an online uproar, causing the police in the United States and Canada to work overtime to stop fraudulent Internet sales, while elsewhere Web retailers are putting in long hours resolving technical problems caused...

State investigators in New Jersey have subpoenaed records from Toysrus.com as part of an ongoing investigation into the online toy store's privacy practices, the Associated Press reported Monday. The Paramus, New Jersey-based brick-and-click toy retailer confirmed that investigators from the New J...

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) edged up 3/16 to 17 1/2 in early trading Tuesday, even after the chipmaker lowered expectations for fourth-quarter results because of a slowdown in demand for personal computers. AMD said sales for the quarter will be "flat to nominally higher" than the third quar...

DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) was up 1 3/16 at 13 1/8 in early trading Tuesday, even as the online advertising company reportedly warned of a fourth-quarter loss because of lower ad revenue. Officials at the controversial firm reportedly told analysts and investors on a conference call that it expects...

Online business-to-business exchange VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT) and digital authentication firm VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) rose Monday after the two companies announced that VeriSign will provide the exchange with a package of security services for online transactions. VeriSign gained 4 1/64 to 116...

Here in the season of insane buying, it may be useful to point out that Americans are essentially a giving people. This generosity toward those less fortunate is a consistent national characteristic that the country should be proud of. Of course, where there are significant amounts of money, busine...

National Security Council top cyber-official Richard Clarke said Friday that the next president of the United States has to make Internet security a top priority if the country is to avoid potentially catastrophic events. "What are we prepared to do now to reduce the probability and to mitigat...

Driven by business-to-business (B2B) spending, e-commerce revenues could reach US$4 trillion by 2004, according to a new report from eMarketer. The eGlobal Report reveals that the B2B sector currently accounts for 79.2 percent of total e-commerce spending, but will grow to 87 percent of total ...

E-commerce Web sites and portals received the highest scores for navigation and usablity in a study of the busiest sites on the Internet released Monday by Modalis Research Technologies. The firm's "Web Usability 2000" report looked at the usability of the Web sites with the highest traffic in...

Forty-five percent of this holiday season's online shoppers are making their first purchases ever over the Internet, according to a survey released Monday by Active Research. The study suggests that "click-and-mortar" retailers will benefit the most from the influx of these newbies, as one third o...

Network Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWKC) rose 3/32 to 1 1/4 Friday after the company announced a restructuring plan intended to help it post a pro forma profit ahead of schedule. The Seattle, Washington-based company, which operates online marketplaces and offers hosting services, said "continued stro...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) rose 2 1/16 to 23 7/16 Friday following reports that Credit Suisse First Boston repeated a buy recommendation on the stock. The recommendation was given added weight by reports that CSFB analyst Jamie Kiggen himself had worked a few days as a seasonal helper at a company w...

Within the next month, a mess of online holiday sales figures will be released, to be scrutinized like tea leaves for signs of e-commerce's ultimate fate. However, no matter how those numbers read, 2001 is shaping up as a year where traditional storefront and catalog retailers firmly take control of...

Priceline.com has name recognition that only eBay and Amazon can rival. But while the other two companies have mixed in positive reports from time-to-time, even as they struggle against the downward flow of stock on the Nasdaq, Priceline hasn't been able to get our attention with much of anything bu...