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Sterling Commerce, an AT&T subsidiary, last week acquired e-commerce platform provider Comergent for US$155 million in cash -- further evidence of the rapid development and consolidation taking place in the B2C and B2B market sectors. The merger offers AT&T an opportunity to cross-sell the e...

Throughout history, broad groups of species have undergone periods of rapid evolution and radiation. The same can be said today of digital music technology. From MP3 streaming and live Web simulcasting to the emergence of iPods and the numerous other brands of MP3 player/recorders, to music clips an...

Do you wonder if technology has given us more information than needed? Perhaps, but sometimes it is very helpful, if not invaluable. There is so much good, solid data on the Internet that today, researchers can use it with great comfort and assurance. The days when academics were stuck in libraries ...

Opening up an online high-yield savings account for Jeff Dennis, 57, of Brighton, Mass., was a no brainer. "I deposited $200 into an account and got a $25 bonus at a time when interest rates were in the basement," he told the E-Commerce Times. That was three years ago. Interest rates on savings are ...

By all accounts, the e-commerce sector is poised for another blockbuster holiday season, with forecasters calling for another year of double-digit growth and sales of about US$27 billion for the fourth quarter, according to Forrester Research. Most retailers are already well underway with plans to c...

Disney jumped into the video-on-demand cable arena on Tuesday in a mega deal with Comcast. The long-term distribution agreement, which includes 10 ABC-owned broadcast television stations and the Disney networks, extends the Disney-Comcast relationship into the next decade. The deal will see hit prog...

Some 80 percent of American Internet users say they'll be buying gifts online this holiday season, according to an AOL Shopping/Zogby poll released Tuesday. The same percentage of Web users, the surveyors found, say they'll be spending the same or more than last year on online gifts. What's more, 24...

Dell released its delayed third quarter results Tuesday, posting a stronger-than-expected profit but again warning the financials could change depending upon the outcome of both internal and external probes into past accounting practices. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker said it earned US$677 mi...

In the retail world, Black Friday has long been a red-letter day on the calendar. The Friday after Thanksgiving, while not always the busiest shopping day of the year, is notable for kicking off the mad-dash toward the finish line of the holiday season. In the world of e-commerce, Cyber Monday has q...

Unveiling a scaled-down version of its ID management software, IBM on Monday tapped into what it sees as a growing demand among SMBs for online collaboration and secure transactions with trading partners. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway will allow authorized SMB users to secur...

Gift-givers with deep pockets who want to impress those on their holiday lists may have another luxury item to consider along with jewelry and plasma televisions: For the first time, a single share of Google stock now costs more than US$500. Shares of the search giant's stock broke the $500 mark ear...

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that ISPs and Internet publishers cannot be sued for posting or distributing libelous material written by others. At issue in the ACLU v. Gonzales case was the Child Online Protection Act, which would impose criminal sanctions for posting content deemed h...

Labor market analysis needs to be part of the decision process on whether or where to locate or terminate operations around the globe. Managers of globalized or labor-intensive operations such as software development, customer service and back office support should be able to guide labor market ana...

The holiday shopping predictions are in. Forester Research reports online retail sales this holiday season will reach US$27 billion in the United States alone. JupiterResearch is a little more optimistic, adding $5 billion more to that cheery figure. Jupiter further predicts that a record 114 millio...

Striking back against rival Google, Yahoo on Monday inked a deal with seven publishing companies that will allow more than 150 papers to sell ads on its online classified service. The newspaper giants involved in the deal include Belo, Cox Newspapers, Hearst Newspapers, Journal Register, Lee Enterpr...