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While the digital divide -- the rift between those with access to computers and the Internet and without -- continues to crumble in the United States, analysts generally agree that e-commerce is not seeing the benefits of that trend. Because income is a bigger factor than Web access when it comes...

Apparently, some old fuddy-duddies knew a thing or two about the New Economy after all. Among the companies that managed to squeeze the most money out of the Web in the past year were large, old-line firms with billions in annual revenues. They may not register high on the pop culture radar, but ...

With global tensions and economic insecurity shadowing what is typically a season of generosity and cheer, the retail industry had reason to fear that this year's holiday shoppers would shy away from offline retailers, online retailers -- or both. However, e-commerce's difficult shift from a pure...

Experts say that strategic and operational preparations by an e-commerce company for 2002 should have been set in motion well before today. With all the uncertainty ahead, analysts told the E-Commerce Times that the best defense for e-businesses is to get their own houses in order -- to shape up ...

Despite concerns from federal officials that taxes will stifle growth of the Internet economy, industry and government observers told the E-Commerce Times that an end to a moratorium on certain Internet taxes will not mean the extinction of e-commerce. Gartner Dataquest principal analyst Ron Cowl...

Despite concerns from federal officials that taxes will stifle growth of the Internet economy, industry and government observers told the E-Commerce Times that an end to a moratorium on certain Internet taxes will not mean the extinction of e-commerce. Gartner Dataquest principal analyst Ron Cowl...

It's one of the oldest forms of communication, but word-of-mouth remains a potent marketing force in the digital age. E-commerce experts say that pass-it-along marketing -- also known as viral marketing -- is a highly effective way to create online buzz for new products and services. Analysts tol...

Whatever the future holds for online prescription drug sales, Drugstore.com is standing by its predictions of profitability by the year 2004, even after another quarter of reported losses. In fact, president and chief executive officer Kal Raman told the E-Commerce Times this week that his compan...