Business

E-commerce firms, among others, have yet to grasp the full value of Internet advertising because many do not recognize the overall impact that online branding can have, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. Businesses that judge advertising campaigns solely on their abil...

In a bid to tap small but lucrative business markets, Amazon.com announced Monday that it is launching a software licensing unit that it says will enable customers to save up to 20 percent off full retail pricing. According to the e-tail giant, the venture will also enable business owners to redu...

Several companies that used bogus "rebate" checks to con consumers into signing up for Internet yellow page listings agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that their operations were deceptive and violated federal law, the FTC said Friday. According to the FTC, the defendan...

Despite the importance business-to-business (B2B) dealings have in the e-commerce picture, several myths and misperceptions still exist, according to analysts. In a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times dispels the seven deadly myths of B2B. Myth #1: B2B is about the money. In fact, B2B is not ab...

iVillage.com will cut more jobs over the next couple of months as it shoots to break even on a pro forma basis in the third quarter of this year, executives of the New York City-based women's Internet network said. The "rightsizing" will include a reduction in the company's workforce over the nex...

The Consumers' Association, a British advocacy group that campaigns to increase online security, said Friday that it suffered a security breach in its TaxCalc software site that left the credit-card information of nearly 3,000 customers exposed to unauthorized third parties. The security flaw aff...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday that it has sued another Internet pyramid scheme that conned thousands of consumers. "Defendants operate what is commonly known as a 'pyramid scheme' that enriches the defendants at the expense of the majority of the participants in their s...

T1msn, a joint venture of Microsoft and Mexican phone company Telmex, said Thursday it is acquiring Yupi Internet and launching YupiMSN, a Spanish-language portal. With the acquisition, T1msn, whose audience has grown to more than 5 million unique users since its launch a year ago, will expand i...

Following in the footsteps of private industry, the U.S. government is turning to e-business to fuel its supply chain, improve its employment programs and dispose of its surplus goods. "We're seeing government start to use some of [the] mechanisms private companies have already been using," Joh...

In order to steer long-term revenue growth, businesses need to begin using the Internet to move all of their company operations as close as possible to customers and suppliers, or risk being edged out of the game by competitors, according to a report released Wednesday by GartnerG2. To this end,...

Auto dealers are not using the Internet to their best advantage when seeking to lure customers to their dealerships, according to a study released Wednesday by research firm J.D. Power and Associates. A key issue is that car dealers generally do not have a good idea of how they can use Internet-...

Travelocity.com and Yahoo! announced Wednesday that they have inked a deal to create interactive multimedia broadcast centers for Travelocity customers. While some might see Travelocity's announcement as a desperate bid to compete with travel mega-site Orbitz, Morningstar.com analyst Langdon Heal...

Looking to narrow the gap between television and e-commerce, Internet portal Yahoo! said Thursday it is expanding its relationship with ValueVision International, the third-largest home shopping network. ValueVision said it plans to re-launch its cable home-shopping network and online companion...

The era of e-business profitability has begun, but the gap between the most and least successful Internet companies is growing wider, according to a study released Tuesday by McKinsey & Company. "Not all dot-coms deserve their current beating from investors," said McKinsey consultant Tilman...

A new trial date in November has been set in the copyright infringement case brought by Tee Vee Tunes against MP3.com, after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case Tuesday, citing a mathematical error by the jury. In April, a jury found that MP3.com must pay TVT $292,000 for copyright in...