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DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) wasup 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 andinvestors on a conference call that it expects a loss of 3 cents per sharein the quarter, compared w...

Online business-to-business exchange VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT) and digital authentication firm VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) rose Monday afterthe 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, and VerticalNet picked up 9/32 to 9 1/4....

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 The vast majority of Americans, about 70 percent, give to at least one charity per year, according to IndependentS...

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 mitigatethe damages when a major cyber event does occur? That ...

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 by 2004, when worldwide B2B e-commerce will re...

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 the United States, Germany, France, Sweden and the UK....

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, asone third of those buying online for the first time said they cho...

Network Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:NWKC) rose 3/32 to 1 1/4 Friday after the company announced a restructuringplan intended to help it post a pro forma profit ahead of schedule The Seattle, Washington-based company, which operates online marketplaces and offershosting services, said "continued strong business growth," along with costsavings from the re...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) rose 21/16 to 23 7/16 Friday following reports that Credit Suisse First Bostonrepeated a buy recommendation on the stock The recommendation was given added weight by reports that CSFB analyst JamieKiggen himself had worked a few days as a seasonal helper at a companywarehouse to see how things were going, and came away con...

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 but bad news. Executives like chief financial offic...

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 the online turf from pure-play e-tailers. The home...

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.

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 higher than the same week last year, rising to 35.6 millio...

Online pharmacyDrugstore.com continues to narrowly outpaceniche competitor PlanetRx (now XMediapartners.com)and retains the No. 1 spot among Internet healthretailers, according to new rankingsreleased by Forrester Research Although researchers surveyed a number of e-tailers in the category, theyconcluded that the contest essentially boiled down to ...

E-tail giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) 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....

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 forScour's technology assets, including its peer-to-peer file-sharingapplication, wit...

The stock price of Ask Jeeves, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASKJ) lost more than half its value in the first few minutes of trading Friday, falling4 61/64 to 4 47/64, after the company said it will report a bigger-than-expected loss from continuing operations and that that its chief executive officeris stepping down The Emeryville, California-based search-engine ...

Viant Corp. (Nasdaq: VIAN) fell 1/8 to 41/8 Thursday after the company became the latest Internet consultant toannounce 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 US$5 million to $7 million, and refocus itsresources o...

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. The job cuts, which represented 11 percent of Priceline's workforce, came a month after 87 other workers were let go and leave the firm wit...

Yahoo! Inc. fell Thursday for the secondday in a row, reaching a 52-week low after yet another analyst expressedconcern about the effect of slowing Internet advertising sales on thecompany Yahoo! dropped 2 9/16 to 34 15/16 after W.R. Hambrecht analyst Derek Browncut his investment rating on Yahoo! to neutral from buy, saying a weakmarket for online...