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Stricter laws are needed to protect Internet auction users from spammers who harvest e-mail addresses from auction sites, an eBay executive told U.S. lawmakers at a House subcommittee on crime hearing on cybercrime Thursday. "It is worth noting that some forms of cybercrime could be reduced if Co...

Since starting a massive pop-up and pop-under advertising campaign early this year that brings Web traffic to its site automatically, e-tailer X10.com has gone from a relatively unknown seller of home networking and security devices to a leader in the quest for Internet clicks. However, analys...

Priceline.com has been working hard to improve its customer service and find the right product mix, but analysts still disagree about whether the "name-your-own-price" e-tailer has a business model that will succeed. "I don't believe Priceline has a long-term business model," Jupiter Media Metrix...

Although online credit card fraud is not a myth, its frequency has been greatly exaggerated, according to a survey released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The report said that the attention focused on online security incidents has led consumers to believe that fraud is approximately 12 times ...

Monster.com has earned the title of top-rated online job search site, according to a report issued Wednesday by Greenfield Online. The new report also contained some potentially troublesome news for online job sites: Just under 20 percent of respondents reported they actually found a job using th...

Television will become an important vehicle for e-commerce transactions in the coming years, according to a study released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The research firm said that the majority of TV-driven buying will soon be transacted via interactive television (iTV) shopping programs, wi...

Seven months after launching a Japanese-language book-selling site, Amazon.com said Wednesday the site is adding music, video and DVD product lines, with more offerings to come before the end of the year. The expanded product lines will bring several of the features for which the original Amazo...

While U.S. lawmakers have failed to stop the flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail -- otherwise known as spam -- clogging e-mail boxes across the nation, many savvy netizens are turning to SpamCop.net, a tool that helps consumers filter out spam and report spammers to their Internet service prov...

Electronics e-tailer X10.com leapfrogged over Amazon.com and eBay in the May rankings of the Top 50 most visited Web sites, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. Driven by a "pop-up" and "pop-under" ad strategy that accounted for 95 percent of its traffic, X10.com move...

As the summer travel season gets underway and a new competitor -- airline-backed Orbitz -- enters the fray, online travel companies are bombarding consumers with new multimedia marketing pitches. However, analysts told the E-Commerce Times on Tuesday that even with the new TV and print ad campaig...

America Online and General Motors announced Wednesday that they are extending a marketing and advertising alliance to push for the sale of the automaker giant's cars on the Internet. As part of the "multimillion dollar" agreement, the companies will continue to promote GM's full line of cars and...

Hoping to prevent customers from straying, and perhaps laying the groundwork for an e-tailer browser war, Half.com launched a price-comparison shopping feature Tuesday that alerts shoppers who click into a competitor's inventory that the item they're looking for is available back at Half.com. A...

Roughly 70 percent of large firms will fall prey to a handful of "significant business traps" -- including the fumbling of e-commerce opportunities -- that will hamper growth and perhaps destroy entire companies, predicted a report released Tuesday by GartnerG2, a new research service of Gartner ...

Duet, the online music venture backed by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (UMG), has been renamed Pressplay, the companies said Monday. Webnoize analyst Joel Karp told the E-Commerce Times that the renaming, as well as the appointment of two UMG executives to run Pressplay, coul...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is implementing a new plan to crack down on Web sites selling fraudulent cures for terminal diseases such as cancer and AIDS. The FTC said that on Thursday, it will announce a new round of law enforcement actions to stem the tide of fraudulent marketing of ...