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eBay said Wednesday that it reached a deal with Columbia TriStar Television Distribution, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, to produce a daily syndicated television show focusing on "the stories behind the millions of items traded daily on eBay and other venues." "To the extent that eBa...

The latest dot-com job cut numbers released Tuesday by Challenger, Gray, & Christmas (CGC) paint a rather mixed picture of the Internet economy. On the one hand, dot-com layoffs in August fell 44 percent from July, to reach a 12-month low of 4,899. On the other, the number of dot-com firms th...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case it filed against spammers who collected consumers' personal information, including credit card information, by sending unsolicited commercial e-mails that told people they had to supply the data or lose access to the Internet. The sett...

A one-day airfare sale helped increase sales more than 70 percent at Travelocity.com, the travel site said Monday. Data released by the site and comScore Networks found that while the fare discounts on American Airlines tickets led to a 19 percent drop in prices, it also prompted a 71 percent ris...

The quest to be No. 1 in the online job recruitment space is now essentially a two-party race. The corporate backers of CareerBuilder announced Friday that they are acquiring job site HeadHunter.net in a direct attempt to dethrone the current online job leader, Monster.com. CareerBuilder said ...

For the fourth time this year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit accusing an Internet company of unauthorized use of NCAA trademarks. "We've alleged that Final Four is our registered trademark and that a member of the public who goes to one of these ...

The acquisition of online electronics retailer Outpost.com is in jeopardy, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Outpost's potential buyer, PC Connection. According to PC Connection, if Outpost is unable to meet the net-worth condition set in the merger agreement, PC Connection will vo...

Waking up from a summertime slumber, online spending increased approximately 25 percent in July, rising to US$3.98 billion from $3.2 billion in June, according to the latest Forrester Online Retail Index, released Wednesday. In addition, the number of households shopping online increased to 14.7 ...

E-business marketplace provider FairMarket announced Wednesday that it is laying off 38 employees -- 35 percent of its workforce -- due to "continuing trends in the e-business marketplace." FairMarket provides e-business selling and marketing services, including automatic markdown, auction, fixe...

If you live in an area where online grocery service does not exist, you might need to be more patient than ever. In the new age of online delivery, Net grocery providers have become extremely cautious not only about what cities they will venture into, but even which neighborhoods within a given c...

Over 33 million people in the UK, or 60 percent of the region's population, ventured online between April and June, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter MMXI. The number of "heavy users" is also on the rise in UK, with over 11 million people accessing the Internet more than three ti...

Web infrastructure services provider VeriSign said Monday it is offering a new Shared Hosting Security Service aimed at helping small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) receive the kind of e-commerce security previously reserved for much larger companies. "It's kind of gluing together the pieces the...

Multinational companies based in the U.S. have a long way to go to ensure the privacy of customer data, particularly data transferred via the Internet, according to a study released Thursday by Andersen. "The reality of today's global economy, especially the use of the Internet as a channel fo...

Egghead.com announced Wednesday that it is selling its assets to Silicon Valley-based brick-and-mortar retail chain Fry's Electronics as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The Egghead Web site will remain open for business until the assets sale is complete, the company said. Fry's, which...

U.S. Internet businesses are not the only ones experiencing a slowdown in the online advertising market, according to a survey released Tuesday by Jupiter MMXI. Jupiter found that 42 percent of European advertisers plan to spend only 1 to 5 percent of their entire 2001 advertising budgets online....

In a significant show of support for Web portal Yahoo!, which faces ongoing litigation over the sale of Nazi-related items in France via its U.S.-based Web site, several prominent Internet industry associations and business organizations have filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of Yahoo...

Linux distributor Red Hat is set to launch a new e-commerce suite built on an open-source platform, the company told the E-Commerce Times on Friday. The new product is aimed at mid-size businesses that want to expand their e-commerce platform to support more transactions, enable more complex me...

Online health care firm WebMD said Thursday that its losses for the second quarter ending June 30th narrowed to 7 U.S. cents per share, compared to a loss of 9 cents per share in this year's first quarter. WebMD's second-quarter loss of $23.8 million, excluding restructuring, integration and n...

Is the online travel market big enough to comfortably feed three of its giants -- Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz -- at the same time? According to Forrester, 18.9 million households will make their travel purchases on the Web this year, netting US$16.7 billion in leisure travel revenues. That'll...

Online industrial auction specialist DoveBid said Tuesday it has acquired the capital asset disposition firm TradeOut as part of an aggressive effort to expand DoveBid's business-to-business (B2B) offerings. The TradeOut purchase is DoveBid's 15th acquisition in the past two years. "Clearly, the...