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Advanced Micro Devices sells its Athlon processors and others to makers and re-sellers of personal computers, and to consumers. The company, by its own estimates, holds a 17 percent share of the PC processor market. Its chief competitor Intel, a heavy Internet advertiser, holds about 80 percent o...

The European Commission (EC) said Thursday that the refusal of German publishers to sell books to certain Internet booksellers amounts to "illegal collusion." The EC said it would not tolerate restrictive practices which have effects on trade between members of the European Union (EU), especial...

Companies that want to take advantage of the opportunities posed by e-commerce will have to do a better job managing dynamic pricing strategies, intellectual property rights, and partnership relationships, researchers at the University of California-Irvine Graduate School of Management announced ...

Aiming to dispel doubts about the value of online advertising, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) said Wednesday that three studies reveal that traditional banner ads boost brand awareness and drive purchases while new, larger ads are even more effective. Studies commissioned by the IAB and t...

Online travel company Travelocity reported income late Wednesday of 8 U.S. cents per share -- before special charges -- for the second quarter ended June 30th, topping analyst estimates by 3 cents. After expenses for goodwill amortization and other charges, however, the company ended up with a n...

Amazon.com launched an "e-Documents" store Thursday, offering consumers access to downloadable research reports, journal articles and magazine archives. "It's hard to say yet whether this is a good idea for Amazon, because the selling of e-documents is still in its infancy," Morningstar.com analy...

Online business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce will continue its struggle to take hold in Central Europe, while business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce will see a much more robust growth in the region, the European branch of research firm IDC told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday. According to a ne...

Looking to capitalize on the demise of many of its competing e-commerce service providers, Digital River announced Wednesday the launch of its E-Rescue Program, aimed at companies and government agencies that are working with e-commerce service providers which are failing or have gone out of bus...

In an effort to stay focused on selling its core technology products, Egghead.com is handing over the reins to the auction portion of its online electronics store. Egghead will now pay dynamic pricing services provider FairMarket, which has lost several major clients over the past few months, inc...

Mega-travel site Orbitz and online discount travel firm Hotwire, both backed by a consortium of the largest airline carriers in the U.S., said Thursday they have inked a marketing agreement that will provide each company's customers direct access to the other's fares and hotel rates. As part of ...

With brick-and-click retail becoming the dominant trend, Internet marketers cannot dismiss teenagers as a target audience when creating a Web presence even though most teens do their purchasing offline, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The study found that while 1...

Although European e-tailers are facing their own wave of closures and consolidation, a study released Tuesday by the Boston Consulting Group found that the continent's online retailing industry is "far from dead," but rather that consumers are growing increasingly enthused about purchasing from b...

Amazon.com said Wednesday it will offer new international shipping plans designed to cut the length of time overseas customers must wait for delivery of goods bought on the e-tail site. Rather than varying shipping terms country by country, the cost and time it takes Amazon to ship goods will n...

Aiming to carve out a spot in the peer-to-peer e-commerce space that has been dominated by players like eBay and eBay-owned Half.com, Grab A Bargain.com on Tuesday officially launched its fixed-price bargain marketplace for the buying and selling of books, music and movies. While notions of Dav...

While companies continued to increase their online business-to-business (B2B) adoption rate during the second quarter of 2001, most organizations still report that they are in the early stages of full-scale Internet-based buying, according to a study released Monday by the National Association of...