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Amazon.com expanded its reach into brick-and-mortar stores overseas with its announcement Wednesday that its British arm, Amazon.co.uk, has teamed up with European mobile phone provider Carphone Warehouse to offer customers pre-paid phones online. According to Carphone Warehouse, the deal is th...

There's a case brewing in Louisiana that may blow the lid off virtual casinos everywhere. A U.S. appeals court faces the question of whether a trial court in Louisiana was correct when it ruled in February that the 1961 Wire Act does not apply to all forms of Internet gambling, but only sports wage...

Shareholders at the annual meeting for urban delivery e-tailer Webvan approved a reverse stock split Friday in an attempt to get company shares over the US$1 minimum required by the Nasdaq. Webvan said it received a letter from the Nasdaq Listing Panel requiring that Webvan implement the approv...

Yahoo! continued its ongoing transformation into a full-fledged media company with the announcement Thursday that it is acquiring online music provider Launch Media for approximately US$12 million. Webnoize director of research Lee Black told the E-Commerce Times that the deal will likely benefi...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Commerce released a report Wednesday recommending that Congress take no action to amend the digital signature law, also known as the Electronic Signature in Global & National Commerce Act (ESIGN), which was signed by President Bill...

Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling upon some of the Internet's biggest e-tailers to help prevent online auction fraud. In a letter sent to Web giants Amazon.com, Yahoo! and eBay on Monday, committee chairman Billy Tauzin (R-Louisiana) asked the chief executive off...

The Consumers' Association, a British advocacy group that campaigns to increase online security, said Friday that it suffered a security breach in its TaxCalc software site that left the credit-card information of nearly 3,000 customers exposed to unauthorized third parties. The security flaw aff...

Databases at online credit-card processing and security provider Anacom Communications were illegally accessed this week, Anacom's parent company ZixIt Corporation confirmed Thursday. ZixIt said that it took control of the entire Anacom premises and began forensic data analysis on the breach Mon...

Despite the fact that more people in the UK are shopping over the Internet than ever before, a report released Tuesday by Which? Online and the UK Consumers' Association reveals several potential warning signs for British e-tailers. According to the report, 63 percent of British Internet users ve...

A month after losing its co-founder and chief executive officer, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce company PurchasePro said Monday that it is slashing its workforce by approximately 50 percent, as part of a new cost control program. Along with reducing its workforce to less than 300 employees...

Online shopping in Europe is unlikely ever to catch up with e-commerce levels in the U.S., in large part because of regulatory hurdles and small domestic markets, a Forrester Research analyst told the E-Commerce Times on Monday. "Europeans are less likely to have credit cards, which are the easie...

Monster.com has earned the title of top-rated online job search site, according to a report issued Wednesday by Greenfield Online. The new report also contained some potentially troublesome news for online job sites: Just under 20 percent of respondents reported they actually found a job using th...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is implementing a new plan to crack down on Web sites selling fraudulent cures for terminal diseases such as cancer and AIDS. The FTC said that on Thursday, it will announce a new round of law enforcement actions to stem the tide of fraudulent marketing of ...

In the latest turn of events concerning the regulation of Nazi and other hate-related memorabilia sales online, a U.S. District Court in California Thursday decided not to dismiss a lawsuit by Yahoo! aiming to declare a French court's ruling against the Internet portal unenforceable. "The court'...

A drop-off in first-quarter sales by e-commerce firms following the holiday season does not necessarily mean things are all bad for e-tailers, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday. In fact, e-commerce is showing several signs of increased vitality over last yea...

If the file download numbers released Tuesday by Webnoize are any indication, Napster fans had better keep their fingers crossed that Napster's potential deal with MusicNet goes through. According to Webnoize, Napster downloads fell 87 percent from February to May, dropping all the way from 2.79 ...

iVillage.com will remain on the same "street" as its tech stock neighbors after all. The women's site announced Friday that it will not be kicked off the Nasdaq stock exchange. The women's online network said it has received a letter from Nasdaq stating that iVillage has met listing rules by mai...

Hollywood.com and CinemaNow announced Thursday that they are creating a new, co-branded pay-per-view movie site scheduled to open in June. The deal gives the smaller CinemaNow a much needed venue for distributing mainstream, full-length films. Whether it will help give the overall online movie ...

Bertelsmann AG announced another addition to its online music empire Wednesday, saying it has acquired Internet music collection service MyPlay.com. Bertelsmann said MyPlay's digital locker and music subscription technologies will be integrated into the company's new digital technology division,...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that it has approved a settlement agreement with two adult Web sites that had been charged with running deceptive "free trial" offers and placing unauthorized charges on consumer credit cards. According to the settlement documents, the VMI si...