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Many of the top e-commerce companies are enjoying a happy holiday season, with Internet heavyweights Yahoo! and Amazon among the sites enjoying significant sales gains. Yahoo! said its sales volume surged more than 86 percent during the post-Thanksgiving buying period over last year's levels. Ama...

While many Internet sellers have seen their traffic slow this holiday season due to deep retail discounts that drove consumers back into brick-and-mortar stores, Internet heavyweight Yahoo! said that its sales volume surged more than 86 percent during the post-Thanksgiving buying period over last...

HotJobs says a US$436 million takeover offer from Yahoo! is superior to a longstanding bid from Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide, and is poised to take the deal. HotJobs set a deadline of Thursday morning for TMP to sweeten its offer. Though it has yet to formally respond to the HotJobs a...

The number of visitors to Internet shopping sites for the week ended December 16th is running 55 percent ahead of the same week last year, according to a study released by Jupiter Media Metrix. "The late-season momentum of this year's online holiday traffic suggests that this year's sales expecta...

Raising the possibility that online holiday sales may not grow at all this year, Forrester Research said that it has cut its estimate for spending during the holiday season to US$8 billion. That figure would actually represent a decrease over 2000 levels, when Forrester estimated that $10 billion...

While online merchants were forced to contend with costly Web site outages and misfires during the holidays of past years, the 2001 season is shaping up to be a relatively uneventful affair. "This fear factor has caused people to pay more attention to the right things," Forrester Research directo...

Traffic to Amazon.com during November increased more than 30 percent over a year ago, making it the leading e-tailer by a wide margin, according to data released by Nielsen//NetRatings. "Amazon's phenomenal growth in 2001 defies the law of large numbers," said Lisa Strand, director and chief anal...

Traffic to Amazon.com during November increased more than 30 percent over a year ago, making it the leading e-tailer by a wide margin, according to data released by Nielsen//NetRatings. "Amazon's phenomenal growth in 2001 defies the law of large numbers," said Lisa Strand, director and chief anal...

Traffic to Amazon.com during November increased more than 30 percent over a year ago, making it the leading e-tailer by a wide margin, according to data released by Nielsen//NetRatings. "Amazon's phenomenal growth in 2001 defies the law of large numbers," said Lisa Strand, director and chief anal...

The Liberty Alliance Project, a high-profile organization working to develop open standards for authenticating e-commerce transactions and digital identities, announced that Hewlett-Packard and MasterCard International have joined its ranks as founding members and will take positions on the manag...

The PC will not be successful as a hub for watching interactive video, and business ventures based on selling movies over the Internet are destined to fizzle out before they begin, according to a new Jupiter Media Metrix study. Jupiter analyst Lydia Loizides told the E-Commerce Times that consume...

The Web and e-mail have brought unprecedented speed and efficiency to the dissemination of product and company awareness, but high-tech PR professionals still rely on traditional communications vehicles for tangible results. "The Internet has become the new water cooler -- a destination to hear g...

As overall online holiday e-commerce sales lag, Drugstore.com is ringing up record numbers. The pure-play e-tailer said that it has racked up three consecutive weeks of record revenues, and sales are running more than 30 percent higher this year compared to last. Still, the online pharmacy stands...

While much of the online advertising industry remains in the doldrums, travel advertising on the Internet has picked up, according to a report by market research firm Jupiter Media Metrix. Online travel ads plunged in the second week of September and bottomed out during the first week of October,...

Holiday shoppers helped push online sales to nearly US$5 billion in November, a 36 percent increase over October but below year-earlier spending levels, Forrester Research and Greenfield Online said. The data means Forrester's forecast for an $11 billion holiday season -- which would have been a ...