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Amazon rolled out the next phase of its five-year partnership with retailer Target. The companies have launched an integrated site that offers merchandise from Target, Amazon, Marshall Field's and Mervyns The site will give Amazon its first crack at selling clothing online -- just in time for the holiday season.

They were among the e-commerce sectors given up for dead. But like others before them -- such as online grocery and clothing sales -- they have endured in the face of all adversity and have even begun to show signs of turnaround. "A lot of sectors have been completely changed from what people thought they were going to look like," Giga Information...

Leading travel sites have unveiled a slew of promotions in recent days aimed at boosting their hotel sales, in apparent recognition that long-slumping airline ticket sales might not soon recover Both Priceline and Expedia unveiled hotel service upgrades, and Expedia also beefed up its offerings for the hotels themselves, saying it would offer impro...

As though bankruptcy and $3.8 billion in "overstated earnings" were not bad enough, WorldCom has found that another $3.3 billion was improperly reported between 1999 and the first quarter of 2002 The discovery of the additional missing $3.3 billion comes on the heels of a rough period for WorldCom. The company has been under pressure from both the ...

For Web travelers seeking to lighten their load of usernames and passwords, help has generally been slow to arrive. Some relief for the forgetful has come in the form of functions -- installed on popular operating systems -- that serve to ease the mental burden of those surfing from a single computer "Microsoft and Apple both offer effective passwo...

As if the immediate future did not look dim enough for AOL Time Warner, a group of the company's shareholders has filed what they hope will become a class-action suit against the company for allegedly misrepresenting revenue reaped from online advertising The company has recently been besieged by numerous actions, including a U.S. Securities and Ex...

Shares of Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide tumbled to their lowest levels in nearly four years after the company reduced its outlook for the rest of this year and said it will lay off more workers Specifically, TMP said that in the face of lower revenue and earnings, it will raise its total number of job cuts to 1,000. According to the comp...

Many venture capitalists have seen millions of dollars of well-intentioned funding vanish, but they have not given up on the tech economy -- even though they are in much less of a hurry to invest in technology startups. "Great people with good ideas are still attracting attention," John Balen, a general partner with Canaan Venture Partners in Menl...

Saying that their livelihoods might be at stake, Canadian booksellers are taking their battle against the arrival of Amazon.com to court. The Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) has joined with Amazon's largest Canadian competitor, Indigo Books, to apply for judicial review of an administrative ruling by the Department of Canadian Heritage....

The HP-Compaq union not only was the largest merger in technology industry history, it also signaled the end of an era and the beginning of the next chapter in enterprise computing, according to a new report by the Yankee Group. And the HP product lineup has already started to evolve since the deal closed May 7th. But what does the merger mean for...

If every cloud has a silver lining, is the reverse also true? It is for Jonathan F. Miller. On Tuesday, he landed what once would have been -- and might still be -- one of the world's great jobs. He now heads America Online Not a bad gig. He certainly won't have to go into any strained explanations at cocktail parties about what he does for a livin...

Nowhere are IT budgets leaner than in the retail sector, where tight margins strictly curtail technology spending. However, a recent report from IDC indicates that the retail IT market will grow rapidly over the next few years and could be worth US$40 billion by 2006 Experts said that while retail spending on information technology is currently low...

The first wave of online grocery stores is all but gone, but one year after Webvan secured its title as the biggest dot-bomb ever, the online grocery segment is slowly reinventing itself. Brick-and-mortar supermarkets are cooking up some early success with hybrids of the original model Indeed, it is a new era for online grocers....

Dot-com incubator CMGI said it has negotiated to end a 15-year, $114 million deal that called for its corporate name and logo to adorn the stadium where the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots play football The move comes just a week before the Patriots play their first-ever game in the new facility, which is located about 25 miles south of Bo...

Everyone knows that stock investments are long-term propositions, that if you buy and hold, you are more likely than not to see better returns from Wall Street than from your neighborhood bank But amid all of that long-range outlook talk, companies are forced to come forward every three months to report on how things are going. And those reports ca...

Yahoo! has acquired a 15 percent share of European mobile phone service provider Sonera zed Ltd. Although the two companies are not disclosing financial terms of the deal, they soon will begin delivering co-branded mobile services across Europe During the first phase of the partnership, the duo will introduce logos, ring tones, picture messages, ch...

Internet market research is designed to be evergreen, so that clients who buy advice about online customer service or traffic-building tactics can use that advice later Typically, Internet market research is so geared toward business goals that companies use large doses of analyst insight when planning future strategies. But Internet market researc...

Media outlets are jumping on the paid-content bandwagon, with national and regional players alike announcing plans to charge visitors for online access to print and broadcast content Freedom Communications -- a Florida newspaper publisher -- is the latest to join the for-fee parade. The group's four regional papers will begin charging US$8.50 a mon...

Dot-com layoffs awakened from a midsummer slumber, more than doubling in July to 1,750 lost jobs, according to a Challenger, Gray and Christmas report That makes July the third-worst month so far this year for Internet-related layoffs, behind May, which had 2,078 cuts, and January, when 1,802 were fired. Layoffs dipped to as low as 670 in March.

Online retailers have learned that buyers are much more serious about e-commerce these days and are less likely to be induced to purchase anything advertised online with gimmicks, trumped-up promises or wild graphics "People are looking more at what's the deal," Yankee Group analyst Rob Perry told the E-Commerce Times. The emphasis is "more on pric...