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By and large, if you know what movie you want to see, you can buy tickets online easily. However, if you log on without having picked your flick, your online experience might end up being as enjoyable as "Problem Child 3." With that in mind, the E-Commerce Times took it upon itself to evaluate t...

By and large, if you know what movie you want to see, you can buy tickets online easily. However, if you log on without having picked your flick, your online experience might end up being as enjoyable as "Problem Child 3." With that in mind, the E-Commerce Times took it upon itself to evaluate t...

By and large, if you know what movie you want to see, you can buy tickets online easily. However, if you log on without having picked your flick, your online experience might end up being as enjoyable as "Problem Child 3." With that in mind, the E-Commerce Times took it upon itself to evaluate t...

As the stock price of Priceline.com slumped this week, a Hong Kong investment group that is the largest outside shareholder in the online travel site followed through on a promise to boost its ownership stake. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Cheung Kong (H...

At mid-year, in terms of dollars and number of deals made, venture capital funding for U.S. investments was less than half of what it was in 2000, according to VentureWire, which tracks private equity investment. Even so, the high-tech desert has more than one venture capital oasis. In this art...

MusicNet, an online music service to be offered by America Online and RealNetworks with backing from four recording companies, said Thursday that its technology is ready for distribution by the two media partners. MusicNet said it is providing AOL and RealNetworks with "the entire technology and ...

In a move apparently timed to capitalize on a slowdown in business travel, Yahoo! unveiled a service Thursday that will provide corporations with Internet broadcasting capabilities. Yahoo! Broadcast Services are designed to replace face-to-face meetings for business conferences, sales meetings a...

Amazon.com opened a travel store on its Web site Wednesday, featuring booking services and travel status information from travel site Expedia. "It makes perfect sense for Amazon to partner with one of the leading travel sites," Forrester Research analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Time...

Car companies are moving their purchasing and other commerce activities online, taking advantage of new technology to cut costs in a slowing economy, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. "Manufacturers should look to the automotive industry to see growing trends in B2...

Faced with intense pressure to grow their businesses quickly, e-commerce executives have been forced to make countless critical decisions -- sometimes at odds with what had once been unassailable Old Economy practices. With online enterprises confronted by as many tests as ever, the E-Commerce Ti...

Music file-swapping network Napster inched closer to being reborn as a legitimate, paid service Monday when it announced a preliminary settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by songwriters and music publishers. Napster said it agreed to pay US$26 million to the National Music Publishers' Associ...

Pure-play e-tailer Drugstore.com said Friday that the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. should not hurt its third quarter financial results. Bellevue, Washington-based Drugstore.com also said it remains confident that it can achieve profitability before running out of cash. Drugstore....

Despite the dot-com downturn, there is still room for small offline retailers on the Web and good reasons for them to be there, according to industry analysts. Gartner research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times that the real value of the Web to small retailers is its ability to pro...

In a vote of confidence for his company, Priceline.com chairman and chief executive officer Richard Braddock said Friday that he had ended a plan to sell some Priceline shares over the next year, and instead will exercise options to buy 750,000 shares. Braddock's move follows a similar announceme...

How many times have you stopped just short of completing an online order because you were not sure of a product's size, color or overall look? If you're like most online consumers, the answer is probably: many, many times. And e-tailers know it. As a possible solution, many e-tailers are turning ...