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Hotwire Says Sales Are Back to Pre-Attack Levels

Discount online travel company Hotwire said Wednesday that sales and daily transactions have returned to the levels seen before the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. Almost 1 million new users have registered with the year-old site since September 11th, "demonstrating the com...

Survey: Online Shoppers Want Convenience More Than Low Prices

Consumers who shop on the Net prefer e-tailers that make buying online convenient over those that offer low prices, according to a survey released Wednesday by Internet research firm Gartner (NYSE: IT). The survey, conducted by Gartner's G2 division, found that 81 percent of online shoppers said th...

EBay Repeats Long-Range Targets, But Investors Edgy About 2002

Auction powerhouse EBay on Monday repeated its goal, set one year ago, of reaching US$3 billion in revenue by 2005, saying growth in all its businesses remains strong. However, the company disappointed some analysts and investors by predicting that 2002 revenue will total $1.05 billion to $1.1 bi...

Homestore To Cut 700 Jobs, Restructure

Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS), the No. 1 online real-estate company, said it will cut as many as 700 jobs, or about 20 percent of its workforce, as it trims costs and reorganizes its operations. The Westlake Village, California-based e-business, which works with the National Association of Realtor...

Web Travel Stocks Tumble on Threat to Commissions

Continental Airlines said Wednesday it will no longer pay commissions on travel booked over the Internet, sending shares of online travel companies lower amid speculation that other airlines will follow suit. At Prudential Securities, analyst Mark Rowen downgraded Expedia and Travelocity, citing ...

Report: Movement Grows To Consolidate Online Bank Accounts

Almost half of U.S. consumers who bank online would have no problem consolidating their accounts at a single institution, though others continue to have concerns about using one bank only, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The trend toward single-source banking is ...

I-Marketing Interview: PeopleSoft

Software maker PeopleSoft, which amid the struggling economy reported earnings of US$50 million for the third quarter of 2001, embraces online marketing as part of its overall advertising strategy. In a recent interview, chief marketing officer Nanci Caldwell told the E-Commerce Times that the We...

Expedia Beats Street Handily in Quarter

Expedia said late Monday that business recovered from the September 11th terrorist attacks faster than initially predicted, with the online travel company posting better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter of 2002, including earnings (before non-cash items and expenses) of US$15.1 ...

eBay Earns Nearly $35M, Tops Estimates in Q3

Online auctioneer eBay topped analyst estimates in the third quarter ended September 30th, and raised estimates for the current quarter as well. "In these extraordinary times, we continue to be impressed by the strength and resiliency of our user community," said eBay president and chief executiv...

eToys Site Back in Business

The eToys Web site is back, in time for the holidays. The online toy seller, which went out of business and had its assets acquired last spring by toy retailer KB Holdings, is operating as a unit of KB's subsidiary KBKids.com. Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times that t...

AOL Tops Expectations in Q3 Despite Widening Loss

Media giant AOL Time Warner on Wednesday reported third-quarter pro forma earnings and revenue that topped expectations, though the company posted a net loss for the period ended September 30th as advertising revenue declined.

Cautious Optimism for Q3 Tech Earnings

High-tech and e-business companies have rebounded nicely from the sales slowdown that followed the September 11th attacks on the United States, and the bigger, more diversified e-tailers should be able to meet third-quarter earnings targets, analysts say.

Commerce One Cuts Nearly 50 Percent of Jobs, Restructures

Commerce One said late Monday it will cut about 1,300 of its 2,800 jobs as it spins off some operations. The Pleasanton, California-based company, which makes e-commerce software and operates online purchasing exchanges, said that about 700 of the layoffs will be job eliminations primarily among ...

Triple Your Money With Tech Stocks? Dare We Try Again?

If you wanted to triple your money in three years, are there technology investments that could help you do it? Not likely, say most analysts and portfolio managers. For returns like that, "go to Vegas," U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Jon Ekoniak told the E-Commerce Times.

Report: Online Bill Payment Gaining Ground

Consumers are becoming more interested in paying their bills online, though the number of people who actually do so remains low, said a report released Monday by the Yankee Group. "Considering the growth we've seen in the past, it's not a bad growth rate," Yankee director Paul Hughes told the E-C...

DoubleClick Posts Wider Loss on Revenue Drop in Q3

Internet advertising agency DoubleClick has reported that its revenue dropped by nearly a third and that it posted a loss for the third quarter ended September 30th, saying that corporate spending cutbacks have pinched the company's business.

DoubleClick Slashes Purchase Price of E-Mail Marketer

Online advertising company DoubleClick said Thursday it has lowered the price it will pay for e-mail marketer MessageMedia, which it agreed in June to acquire. DoubleClick said it will issue 1 million common shares to buy MessageMedia, rather than the approximately 3 million a DoubleClick spokesp...

Report: Post-Napster World Takes Shape

File-transfer Web site MusicCity.com -- aka "Morpheus" -- is emerging as the most popular of the Napster-like sites that sprung up in the wake of the online music-swapping pioneer, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The number of Americans using file-swapping sites ...

Commerce One Issues Q3 Warning

E-commerce software maker Commerce One late Monday lowered its outlook for the third quarter ended September 30th, saying "poor economic conditions" led to a loss for the period. Forrester Research analyst Jennifer Chew told the E-Commerce Times that Commerce One could eventually be bought out b...

As U.S. Strikes Begin, Investors Cautious on Techs

After the United States began its attacks on targets in Afghanistan, investors around the world reacted by taking their money out of stocks. Some analysts, however, predicted a recovery will occur once the initial shock wears off. Prudential Securities quantitative strategist Ed Keon said Monday ...

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