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Bertelsmann AG announced another addition to its online music empire Wednesday, saying it has acquired Internet music collection service MyPlay.com. Bertelsmann said MyPlay's digital locker and music subscription technologies will be integrated into the company's new digital technology division,...

UK brick-and-click retailer Tesco this week launched an online service that will allow blind people to shop over the Internet without using special equipment. The system uses technology that converts text to speech, describing products on the company's Tesco Direct Web site and guiding consumer...

Job search Web site Monster.com said Wednesday that it is buying competitor FlipDog.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of privately held FlipDog will combine two of the Web's top career sites in terms of the number of job postings and the volume of Internet traffic. It also continues ...

Job search Web site Monster.com said Wednesday that it is buying competitor FlipDog.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of privately held FlipDog will combine two of the Web's top career sites in terms of the number of job postings and the volume of Internet traffic. It also continues ...

Job search Web site Monster.com said Wednesday that it is buying competitor FlipDog.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of privately held FlipDog will combine two of the Web's top career sites in terms of the number of job postings and the volume of Internet traffic. It also continues ...

After a lengthy investigation into the privacy policies of Web information provider Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has declined to take action against the company, Alexa said Tuesday. The FTC launched its investigation of Alexa in March 2000 to determin...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that it has approved a settlement agreement with two adult Web sites that had been charged with running deceptive "free trial" offers and placing unauthorized charges on consumer credit cards. According to the settlement documents, the VMI si...

After setting a record in April, the number of dot-com job cuts fell by 24 percent in May, according to a report released Tuesday by Chicago, Illinois-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of CGC, told the E-Commerce Times ...

The U.S. government sold more than US$3.6 billion via e-commerce in 2000, topping the $2.8 billion in online sales seen by e-tail giant Amazon, according to a study released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Federal Computer Week. "It is a natural evolution for the gov...

Not content to rest on its laurels as one of the true e-commerce success stories, auction giant eBay plans to launch a storefronts program in coming months, chief executive officer Meg Whitman told investors Friday. Whitman also told shareholders at eBay's annual meeting in San Jose, California...

Fast-food giant McDonald's is expanding its use of an electronic system that lets customers pay for their orders using a cash-free keytag system originally developed for Mobil gas stations, a company spokesperson said Monday. Operators of more than 400 Chicago-area McDonald's restaurants recentl...

Is e-commerce finally and unquestionably here to stay? With rejuvenated stocks, high-profile strategic alliances, television advertisements, and an overall sense of acceptance from consumers and the business community, the arrows point in that direction. By small steps and not the big, noisy le...

E-shoppers remain a forgiving lot when it comes to e-tail outages, according to analysts, if those interludes are not too frequent. "As long as outages are not consistent and persistent, e-tailers should be okay," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. Kelley ad...

Career search Web site Monster.com extended its European reach Friday, with the announcement that it intends to acquire one of Europe's largest online professional search companies, Jobline International. Monster's offer to purchase US$115 million in Jobline stock would add five new European coun...

Most small businesses in Australia are "barely active" in e-commerce because they are not fully convinced of its benefits, according to a new report from the Australian arm of IDC. The market research firm said that 56 percent of small businesses surveyed currently have no Internet-related reven...