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Hoping to crack the lucrative Asian e-commerce market, Amazon.com launched a Japanese-language site Wednesday focused on its core business of selling books.

Mortgage.com (Nasdaq: MDCM), a provider of e-commerce services to online mortgage lenders, announced Tuesday that it has laid off 518 of its 618 employees and is beginning "the orderly wind-down" of its operations.

Why they held it back so long is a mystery, but finally, Barnesandnoble.com and Barnes & Noble, Inc. have brought out the secret artillery they've had since this whole Internet thing began.

eToys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETYS) blew past analysts' estimates for the second quarter ended September 30th, and said it expects losses to begin narrowing in future quarters as it aims to break even in fiscal 2002.

Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) met analysts' expectations for earnings on Monday and said recent investments have positioned the online bookseller for a record-breaking holiday season.

Online superstore Buy.com and eBay-owned Half.com announced Monday the creation of a joint marketplace that will sell used CDs, videos and DVDs from both companies.

While a report released Monday by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) predicts that revenue from business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces will approach $9 billion (US$) in 2005, the research firm suggests that the greatest benefits of B2B exchanges lie in increased productivity, not in the revenues t...

The typical Internet user might not be as young as one might think, according to a report released Monday by Gartner Group.

Even though more Americans than ever before will be buying online this holiday season, a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that many U.S. e-tailers will experience million dollar losses.

Religion may rival sex and politics as a taboo subject for dinner table conversations, but mentioning money and religion in the same breath can cause even more squirming. Nevertheless, the relationship between church and cash is an inescapable issue for both the tiny house of worship that survives o...

While ChurchPlaza started offline and moved to the Web, the WorldWide JudaicaStore began as a pure-play and looks toward a brick-and-click future. The site launched in 1998 "to fulfill the ever-growing demand for Judaica in Jewish communities that do not have access to a local Judaica store," the co...

E-commerce means different things to different people, whether it's a household name like Amazon or an obscure business-to-business hub where chemicals are sold.

Although part of the recent spike in reports of identity theft can be attributed to the Internet, offline methods of stealing personal data still provide a more significant information stream for criminals, according to National Fraud Center chairman of the board Norm Willox.

Despite an expected 300 percent spending increase on information technology security over the next four years, bad decision-making will leave U.S. companies almost as vulnerable to security breaches as they are today, according to a new report issued by Forrester Research.

Internet superstore Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Fox Television are partnering to create a two-hour television special, "The Ultimate Auction," for broadcast in December. The auction will be managed by Amazon's live auction site LiveBid.