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Women have made a higher percentage of online purchases than men for two quarters running, according to a survey released Thursday by Greenfield Online. The report indicates that sales to women outnumbered sales to men by 2 percent in the third quarter of 2000. Shopping categories that were p...

Computers passed books to become the No. 1 e-tail category this week as e-commerce Web sites enjoyed a record number of holiday visitors, according to the latest tracking survey from Jupiter Media Metrix. The Media Metrix Online Shopping Index for the week ended December 3rd was 31.2 percent ...

Online pharmacy Drugstore.com continues to narrowly outpace niche competitor PlanetRX.com and retains the No. 1 spot among Internet health retailers, according to new rankings released by Forrester Research. Although researchers surveyed a number of e-tailers in the category, they concluded that th...

E-tail giant Amazon won top sales honors for November, when 3 million buyers passed through its virtual doors, according to figures released Thursday by PC Data Online. By comparison, Amazon had 1.5 million buyers in the previous month and 1.8 million buyers in November 1999. Amazon's nearest compe...

Internet music company Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq: LQID) has jumped into the bidding for bankrupt Scour, the online entertainment venture backed in part by Hollywood heavyweight Michael Ovitz. Liquid Audio, based in Redwood City, California, said it is filing a bid for Scour's technology assets, ...

The stock price of Ask Jeeves, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASKJ) lost more than half its value in the first few minutes of trading Friday, falling 4 61/64 to 4 47/64, after the company said it will report a bigger-than-expected loss from continuing operations and that its chief executive officer is stepping ...

Viant Corp. (Nasdaq: VIAN) fell 1/8 to 4 1/8 Thursday after the company became the latest Internet consultant to announce layoffs and a restructuring to combat an industry slump. The Boston, Massachusetts-based consulting company said it will lay off 125 employees, taking a fourth-quarter charge of...

With an eye toward focusing on its core businesses, Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) said Thursday it has fired 48 workers, shelved plans to expand into Japan, and indefinitely postponed new product introductions. Priceline also postponed plans to expand its name-your-own-price model into other are...

Yahoo! Inc. fell Thursday for the second day in a row, reaching a 52-week low after yet another analyst expressed concern about the effect of slowing Internet advertising sales on the company. Yahoo! dropped 2 9/16 to 34 15/16 after W.R. Hambrecht analyst Derek Brown cut his investment rating on Ya...

As if there weren't enough for e-commerce to worry about -- quick, somebody make sure Amazon is still up -- it seems that some people are concerned about a potential Internet backlash. That's right, people are leaving the Web behind. By all accounts, this situation should raise some red flags. But ...

Divisions of Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler, and General Motors announced Thursday that they are partnering with imaging and information services company Bell & Howell to form a new online parts and service portal, catering to auto dealers and their wholesale customers. Bell & Howell s...

We are continually promised that our online buying experiences will be simple, hassle-free, life-affirming, soul-enriching and that indeed, simply by allowing our money to be spent in this new best-of-all-possible worlds, we may achieve a state of ecstasy. If ecstasy can be defined as a state of f...

Amazon.com has inked a content agreement with venerable product-testing organization Consumers Union -- the publisher of Consumer Reports and Consumer Reports Online -- that will allow the Internet giant to publish "unbiased" product advice summaries, merchandise information and ratings on its s...

Online automobile seller CarsDirect.com announced Wednesday it has suspended plans for an initial public offering (IPO), saying that the market for new issues is too weak. "Market conditions today are simply unreceptive to new offerings, prompting us to delay our IPO," said Bob Brisco, chief executi...

Just one day after women's online network Oxygen Media said it was paring down its workforce and consolidating operations, niche competitor Women.com announced that it is laying off 25 percent of its workforce in a bid to trim expenses and achieve profitability. As part of what the company called...