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Many brick-and-click Web merchants are following a basic recipe for success this holiday season, according to a new report from the Yankee Group According to "Performance Enhancing Strategies for OnlineRetailers," such offline mainstays as JCPenney.com, LandsEnd.com, andSharperImage.com will fare particularly well this holiday season, whilepure-pla...

Answerthink, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSR) wasdown 11/32 at 3 21/32 early Wednesday after the Internet consulting companysaid it will take a charge to fourth-quarter earnings as it reduces itsdependence on dot-com clients The Miami, Florida-based company said it expects pro forma net income forthe quarter to be between breakeven and US$1 million, on revenue ...

Online auction leader eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) said Wednesday it has begun to give its users direct access to United Parcel Service shipping options through the eBay Web site. The partnership, which UPS called the first integration of a shipping company into an e-commerce site, is designed to make it easier for eBay users to ship packages -- often a hu...

eBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) fell 6 to 32 5/16Tuesday after Dain Rauscher Wessels analyst George Sutton reportedlyslashed his price target for the stock to US$50 from $115 Reports said Sutton changed his view of the online auctioneer to reflect thecurrent market environment....

High-tech stocks slid Tuesday despite the Federal Reserve's announcement that it is holding interest rates at 6.5 percent and the hint that itwill cut rates sooner than later The Nasdaq composite stock index fell 112.81, or 4.3 percent, to 2511.71, its lowest close since August 10th, 1999. The E-Commerce Times stock index, which charts the shares o...

Don't look now, but a host of dot-coms that never took a dime of venture capital are now turning a profit. That's right. Not mid-2002. Now -- before the end of the year 2000. These companies don't have household names, their sales numbers don't inspire gasps of awe, and they're light years from even being able to joke about initial public offering...

Educational toy e-tailer SmarterKids has narrowly edged out the powerhouse partnership ofToysrus.com and Amazon.com to secure the title of best online toy and game seller overall, according to Forrester Research rankings released Monday Forrester said SmarterKids won its first-place showing by the "tiniest ofmargins" due to the wealth of instructio...

Remember when people actually wondered if there would be a dot-com shakeout?Remember when you were Chicken Little if you displayed any anxiety about the New Economy? When the sky finally fell -- and fell hard -- you were not alone if you were caught by surprise. After all, most analysts and investors were....

Further indicating that e-commerce is here to stay,a study released Tuesday by Andersen Consulting shows thatInternet shopping and browsing are "directly influencing" consumer spending in brick-and-mortar stores "This holiday season, a Web site ceases to be a nice addition or an experimental marketing channel for leading retailers," said Angela Sel...

Just one month after MP3.com brought to aclose its costly legal contest with industry giant Universal Music Group,the online music service has been hit by a copyright infringementlawsuit by Internet subscription site EMusic The action charges MP3.com and its streaming service MyMP3.com withillegally offering an indeterminate number of albums to whi...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced Tuesday that it is partnering with e-government technology company EzGov to develop and market e-commerce services for local governments The companies hope that the arrangement will help them cash in on the emerging e-government market.

MP3.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MPPP) was down 1/32at 4 early Tuesday after EMusic.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMUS) said it sued theonline music company for copyright infringement Emusic filed a complaint in a federal court in New York, alleging that MP3 is usingtheir music without authorization. Fearless Records, Fuel 2000 Records, Gig Records, Invisible Records, ...

Less than two weeks after shelving an intended expansion into Japan, Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) said Monday it has canceled plans to launch its name-your-price e-tail service through a subsidiary in Australia and New Zealand. Myprice Pty. Ltd., an Australia-based company set up by Priceline in March, had hoped to begin its airline and hotel room...

Garden.com (Nasdaq: GDEN) was down 3/128at 5/128 after the e-tailer said it expects its stock to be delisted fromthe Nasdaq Stock Market The Austin, Texas-based seller of garden products said it could be offNasdaq by February 9, 2001, or sooner if shareholders at a meeting January 8thapprove a planned liquidation. The company has failed to meet Nas...

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) gained 115/16 to 73 5/16 Tuesday after the company, which makes e-businesssoftware, said Business Europe will use its WebLogic server to deliver news,advice, online forums and e-commerce marketplaces to businesses in Europe Business Europe provides its customers, European small and medium-sizedbusinesses, with such ...

America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) fell 6.72to 42.24 on Monday after merger partner Time Warner, Inc. warned of weakfourth-quarter results Time Warner said it will take a charge of US$20 million to $40 million in thequarter to pay for the restructuring of an agreement with Road Runner, ahigh-speed Internet service provider....

As America prepares once again to celebrate a new year, all the usual national rituals are getting ready to make the rounds. Those with ever-expanding waistlines will go on diets, sinners will make resolutions to behave, and oh yes... e-commerce stalwarts of all ideologies will renew the fight on whether online sales should be taxed The Internet Ta...

MVP.com, the sports e-tailer backed by athletic superstars Michael Jordan, John Elway and Wayne Gretzky, announced Monday that it will close its offices in Boulder, Colorado and Austin, Texas, and lay off 48 percent of its 166 employees The restructuring will eliminate the positions of 39 employees in Boulder, 20 in Austin, and 20 at the company's ...

The Internet landscape will soon be populated by more women than ever before, but will be littered with even more dot-com casualties, according to a new report from the Yankee Group The Boston, Massachusetts-based consulting firm also believes that 2001 will see more government regulations to protect users' privacy online and an ongoing decline in ...

A latecomer to the dot-com stage, discount e-tail site BlueLight.com is dancing as gracefully as it can through its first holiday season, sidestepping technical glitches caused by the seasonal shopping boom while displaying a variety of marketing moves that are drawing in more shoppers A report released Friday by Jupiter Media Metrix listed BlueLig...