Articles by Lori Enos

Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) scored a legal victory over rival e-tailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. lifted a preliminary injunction that had barred Barnesandnoble.com from using one-click Web shopping technology In its ruling, the court said that Barnesandnoble.com "raised substantial ...

Webvan Group (Nasdaq: WBVN) will continue its fight for survival in the unforgiving online grocery business without its original driver. The company announced Wednesday that Webvan founder Louis Borders had resigned from the company's board of directors for personal reasons.

Spurred on by the ease of Internet shopping, the online market for Valentine's Day goods and services in 2001 will have increased by more than 16 million users in North America compared to a year ago, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group Overall, Gartner said that North Americans will spend a total of US$2 billion for Valentine's ...

Overstock.com, which has already carved a niche in cyberspace for its dealings in the assets of dead dot-coms, threw its hat into the online travel market Tuesday The company said it has more than 6 million bargain airline tickets, for sale to destinations worldwide, that it obtained from an unidentified ticket consolidator.

Despite an estimated plunge of more than 80 percent in auction listings since Yahoo! started charging users a listing fee, the Internet giant maintains that the effects of the change have been positive A Yahoo! spokesperson told the E-Commerce Times that the company was "very pleased" with the listing fees, saying that "as expected, listings have d...

Beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) announced Tuesday that chief executive officer and chairman of the board Gregory Hawkins and chief financial officer Mitch Hill had resigned for unspecified reasons "The realities of the marketplace demand that we drive vigorously toward profitability," said James B. Roszak, who is stepping in as interim ...

Although the Internet created cyberspace, which does not exist in a physical sense, the web is entering the real world in a new way Retailers are increasingly bringing the Internet into brick-and-mortar stores in the form of web kiosks that allow customers to shop online at the store's e-tail counterpart....

Fewer than 100 of the 500 European business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces currently in existence will survive over the coming years, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter MMXI Europe Even so, the report predicted that online B2B trade in Europe would grow from US$185 million, or 1.5 percent of all European business, to $1.7 billion by...

Another legal volley was fired Thursday in the international battle over Yahoo! auctions of Nazi memorabilia. The France-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) has filed a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit that Yahoo! filed in a U.S. court in December contesting a French court's order After a French judge ordered Ya...

The European Commission (EC) published a plan on Friday aimed at developing e-commerce in the financial services sector. The plan addresses the harmonization of national consumer and investor protection laws and the establishment of a system for alternative dispute resolution, as well as measures designed to build trust in Internet payments....

A dramatic increase in the amount of corporate travel bookings made through custom Web-based systems is expected to cut deeply into the sales made by traditional travel agencies -- unless those agencies develop new services to remain competitive -- according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Research Currently, only 6 percent of online corp...

Japan accounted for nearly 70 percent of e-commerce in the Asian Pacific region in 2000, according to a study released Wednesday by research firm eMarketer Notably, although business-to-business (B2B) spending in Japan accounted for a dominant portion of the country's US$27.3 billion slice of the e-commerce pie, business-to-consumer (B2C) spending ...

A research note issued by a Lehman Brothers analyst Tuesday questioning the financial stability of Amazon.com drew a sharp retort from the Seattle, Washington-based e-tailer Lehman Brothers vice president of convertibles strategy Ravi Suria wrote that Amazon was facing a scenario where "the low levels of working capital could trigger a creditor squ...

More signs came Monday that the days of free online music are drawing to a close Former digital download outlaw MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced that offering a new licensing program and that it was expanding into Asia....

British retail giant John Lewis Partnership said Tuesday that it has purchased the UK division of struggling U.S. e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) "For quite some time it has been clear that our operating model would be stronger in partnership with an offline business," said Murray Hennessy, chief executive officer of Buy.com's UK division.

In contrast to e-marketplaces in the U.S., which are largely funded by homegrown investors, most of the funding for Latin American business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces is coming from international sources, according to a new report from Jupiter Research "The reluctance of regional players to enter the space typifies the slow rate of entry for La...

In yet another example of consolidation in the online auto market, MSN Carpoint and AutoNation announced Friday that they have signed a deal that makes AutoNation the primary distributor of the car sales leads generated by Carpoint. The companies said that the three-year agreement will create the largest online dealer network in existence. In addi...

Bertelsmann AG announced Wednesday that it is eliminating 55 jobs at subsidiary CDNow, in a move that will eliminate the entire advertising sales function at the online music site The move makes sense for Bertelsmann, according to industry observers. Before being purchased by the German media giant, CDNow had turned to selling advertising space bec...

In a bid to refocus on its core travel business, Priceline(Nasdaq: PCLN) announced Wednesday that it had enhanced its service to offer customers more convenient itineraries and shorter connection times between flights. The "name-your-price" e-tailer also said that it had hired travel expert Pauline Frommer as a special advisor to evaluate the comp...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Tuesday that the 2000 holiday shopping season "seems to have gone more smoothly for consumers" than it did in 1999 "Consumers reported fewer problems with online goods being delivered late than in the 1999 online shopping season," FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director Jodie Bernstein said....