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To Boost a Small E-Business, Out-Lawyer the Lawyers

From corporate formation to business licensing to taxation, lawyers have a hand in nearly every aspect of a fledging e-commerce business. For many online entrepreneurs, working with attorneys is an enormous stumbling block. However, the more you learn to think and operate like a lawyer, the bette...

Ameritrade Posts $14M Loss, Amid Trading Slowdown

Online brokerage Ameritrade on Tuesday posted a loss of US$14 million for its fiscal fourth quarter ended September 28th, as revenues fell 33 percent to $92.2 million, compared with revenues of $138 million in the year-ago period. Ameritrade, like others in its industry, saw trading slow down sig...

Study: E-Biz Worries More About Consumer Confidence Than Security Losses

U.S. businesses are more concerned about the impact that online security problems have on consumer confidence and trust in e-business, than about suffering an actual financial loss due to a security breach, according to a study released Wednesday by Internet measurement firm Jupiter Media Metrix....

Shopping.com To Close Shop

E-tail site Shopping.com will cease to exist as a standalone site on the AltaVista network because e-commerce shopping is "no longer part of [Alta Vista's] focus," AltaVista spokesperson David Emmanuel told the E-Commerce Times on Monday. "We are focusing on search functions for consumers and bu...

Gateway Warns Q3 Loss To Be Worse Than Expected

Gateway said Thursday that its third-quarter loss will be far worse than earlier Wall Street's expectations and blamed the shortfall in part on a drop in demand following the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. The No. 4 computer maker also said it would take a charge of $100 ...

Travelocity Cuts Jobs, Closes Call Centers

Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) said Friday that it would cut 10 percent of its non-customer-service workforce and institute a hiring freeze, as well as reduce its discretionary expenditures. "Reductions in staff are difficult in any situation and particularly difficult in this one because our e...

Spam Report: California Stumbles Over the Junk E-Mail Question

Despite promises to the contrary and a number of state laws making it unlawful to send unsolicited, commercial e-mail, the California Attorney General and the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DOCA), including its newly formed Office of Privacy Protection, appear to have done little to f...

Report: Dot-Com Job Cuts Reach 15-Month Low

Dot-com job cuts fell to 2,986 in September, the lowest level since July 2000 -- the month that marked the beginning of the dot-com job-cutting spree that has claimed more than 125,000 jobs in 15 months -- according to a report released Monday by executive placement firm Challenger, Gray & Ch...

Venture Capital Oasis: Luxury E-Tailers

At mid-year, in terms of dollars and number of deals made, venture capital funding for U.S. investments was less than half of what it was in 2000, according to VentureWire, which tracks private equity investment. Even so, the high-tech desert has more than one venture capital oasis. In this art...

Amazon Expands Into Travel with Expedia and Hotwire

Amazon.com opened a travel store on its Web site Wednesday, featuring booking services and travel status information from travel site Expedia. "It makes perfect sense for Amazon to partner with one of the leading travel sites," Forrester Research analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Time...

Spam Report: U.S. Regulators Ignore Most Junk E-Mail

To date, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has only gone after spam in cases in which deceptive advertising was being prosecuted. Unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) itself, regardless of its contents, has not been a target. Some experts think that should change. "The issue is crystal clea...

Report: Free Stuff, Lotteries and Financial Sites Join Web’s Top 50

Sites offering contests and promotional offers, financial management tools and multi-state lottery information were the newcomers to the Internet's Top 50 Web sites, according to the latest online audience measurement report from Jupiter Media Metrix, released Monday. "What we're seeing is the b...

Venture Capital Oases in a High-Tech Desert

Analysts agree that Internet and technology investment is a virtual desert these days. According to figures released by Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association, capital investments fell in the second quarter, cutting overall spending by 61 percent in the past year. The quest...

Morgan Stanley Sued Over eBay and Amazon Dealings

After filing shareholder class-action lawsuits against closed dot-coms such as Webvan and eToys, a firm of lawyers specializing in investor litigation have announced the filing of two new lawsuits -- on behalf of shareholders of eBay and Amazon -- against Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and the firm's...

Study: Dot-Com Job Cuts Decline for Third Straight Month

Dot-com firms announced 8,697 job cuts in July, the lowest monthly figure since October 2000 when 5,677 jobs were lost, according to a report released Friday by executive search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). "I think the decline suggests that we are in the latter phase of the shak...

Heavy Hitters Join Forces on Direct E-Payment Standard

Membership targets for Project ACTION -- a program through which consumers and businesses would initiate payments to a seller via their own financial institutions, rather than authorizing the seller to debit their accounts -- have been reached, the Electronic Payments Association announced Tuesda...

U.S. Court Lifts Ban on Web Cigarette Sales

According to published reports, a federal court in New York ruled on Friday that a state law prohibiting mail-order, Internet and telephone sales of cigarettes is unconstitutional because it places an undue burden on interstate commerce. "While the statute is a reasonable, indeed commendable, s...

Survivors of the E-Commerce ‘Death Watch’

One year ago, Goldman Sachs released a report highlighting 10 well-known e-tailers that were facing a cash crunch and likely to fail within a year, unless they got an infusion of funding or a new business model. As it turns out, Goldman Sachs was half right with its dot-com "Death Watch," which ...

Tech VC: Looking Back While Looking Ahead

Despite the heavy losses realized by venture capital firms in the dot-com shakeout, analysts say that there is actually a great deal of capital available in the VC market for both startup and later-stage funding. However, even with a renewed spark of optimism in the e-business sector, many obser...

Startup.com Reveals the Real Y2K Problem

The opening night showing of "Startup.com" in Los Angeles was full of dot-com workers who were probably looking for a chance to laugh in the mirror. Instead, they got socked with raw footage of incompetent people mistreating one another while wasting a lot of investor money. "Startup.com" tell...

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