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They may be bitter rivals in some ways, but Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Oracle and a host of other tech companies have agreed to cooperate -- at least until they can come up with a set of open standards to ensure Web services compatibility. "The situation was pretty messed up before. Standards were be...

The vast majority of consumers who shop on the Web want online companies to do more to verify identities on the Internet, even if it means more work for shoppers, according to a report from Jupiter Media Metrix. Current systems, which rely heavily on passwords, do not go far enough in providing a...

Like the St. Louis Rams, HotJobs, Monster.com and E*Trade were edged out in Super Bowl XXXVI as AT&T Wireless' mLife joined the New England Patriots in the winner's circle. According to a survey by Jupiter Media Metrix, AT&T cashed in on its ad campaign to promote its new mLife wireless b...

Like the St. Louis Rams, HotJobs, Monster.com and E*Trade were edged out in Super Bowl XXXVI as AT&T Wireless' mLife joined the New England Patriots in the winner's circle. According to a survey by Jupiter Media Metrix, AT&T cashed in on its ad campaign to promote its new mLife wireless b...

Like the St. Louis Rams, HotJobs, Monster.com and E*Trade were edged out in Super Bowl XXXVI as AT&T Wireless' mLife joined the New England Patriots in the winner's circle. According to a survey by Jupiter Media Metrix, AT&T cashed in on its ad campaign to promote its new mLife wireless b...

Shares of Homestore.com hit a 52-week low after the online real estate firm, already buffeted by an ongoing review of its accounting practices, said it will lay off 300 more workers and spin off some assets. Meanwhile, Homestore has been hit with another batch of class-action lawsuits filed on be...

With online payment company PayPal set for its IPO, analysts are optimistic about the company's prospects. "The signs are there that they will continue to be successful," Gartner analyst Avivah Litan told the E-Commerce Times. Litan expects the IPO to be strong, but not show "the wild kind of suc...

Whether they ply e-commerce in the travel, e-tail or auction sectors, most of the firms reporting strong 2001 earnings had one thing in common: gains in overseas sales that likely can sustain growth well into the future. "The tricky thing is you don't want to be there too early," Allyson Henry, E...

Amid new questions about the e-tail giant's cash position, Amazon.com CFO Warren Jenson told analysts and investors that sales will continue to grow while expenses will not, indicating that the company expects strong cash flow in the coming quarters. However, there is also renewed speculation tha...

With online commerce maturing and its highlights and lowlights well documented, a clear picture has emerged of what works and what does not. "We've seen a ruthless winnowing out of the good ideas from the bad ideas," Giga Information Group e-business analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Tim...

Name-your-own-price e-tailer Priceline.com and online auction giant EBay have inked a deal that calls for Priceline to offer its travel booking engine on EBay. "It's completely sensible for EBay to partner with Priceline because EBay is all about auctions and value, and Priceline is also about au...

Sex sells. Online or off, that hasn't changed. But is adult content still the biggest moneymaker on the Web? Finding solid answers is difficult, but it seems clear that as e-commerce hits new milestones, Internet pornography no longer sits alone atop the heap of most-likely-to-succeed online busi...

The number of dot-com job losses fell sharply in January, marking the third straight month of decline, according to a report released by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "The dot-com environment is now through much of the shakeout period," CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Comm...

Accusations of anticompetitive land-grabbing often befall category leaders like Microsoft and Wal-Mart. But e-tail juggernaut Amazon.com is no bully, according to analysts. "Amazon has been more of a partner than a competitor," Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Tim...

According to a new study by GartnerG2, online shoppers who want to download and watch movies over the Internet will have to wait until 2005 for the technology to hit the mainstream. "The biggest threat to any Internet video-on-demand service is to compete with free, and the sources of free will b...