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Internet brokerage E*Trade, online realty Homestore.com and software company i2 were among targets that came to mind when analysts were asked to pick their top e-commerce buyout candidates. With stock prices at bargain-basement levels, these and other dot-coms like them could make good partners f...

Online real-estate companies are being hurt by a slow economy and the pullback in consumer spending, with market leader Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) warning this week of a third-quarter loss and its competitors struggling as well. Rival Homeseekers.com (OTC: HMSK), which was delisted by the Nasd...

UK online travel company Ebookers.com said Wednesday it will cut between 10 and 20 percent of its 700-person workforce in order to cut costs and deal with reduced demand for travel services following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th. The news comes a day after U.S. tra...

Name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com said Tuesday that sales of airline tickets and other travel products are recovering from the events of September 11th faster than previously thought, and revenue for the quarter just ended will not suffer as much as executives initially expected. Priceline ...

As wireless technology improves, consumers will use handheld devices to shop for a range of goods and services, and e-businesses can profit by providing user-friendly devices and targeted services that lend themselves to wireless shopping, according to a study released Tuesday by consulting firm ...

Venture capital investment in the United States plunged in the third quarter, with overall funding for fledgling companies down by more than 60 percent so far this year, according to figures released Monday by VentureWire, a service that tracks private equity funding. "There is quite a bit of unc...

Shares of some key e-commerce companies rose Friday, even as economic reports showed evidence of a slump. A U.S. Department of Commerce report showed that the economy grew at a rate of just 0.3 percent in the second quarter, even before the terrorist attacks on the United States brought many bus...

MusicNet, an online music service to be offered by America Online and RealNetworks with backing from four recording companies, said Thursday that its technology is ready for distribution by the two media partners. MusicNet said it is providing AOL and RealNetworks with "the entire technology and ...

Car companies are moving their purchasing and other commerce activities online, taking advantage of new technology to cut costs in a slowing economy, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix. "Manufacturers should look to the automotive industry to see growing trends in B2...

In the days since the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., analysts have become more cautious about business in general and e-commerce in particular, warning that the stocks will struggle until it is clear when the economy and consumer confidence will pick up. Even before the...

In a vote of confidence for his company, Priceline.com chairman and chief executive officer Richard Braddock said Friday that he had ended a plan to sell some Priceline shares over the next year, and instead will exercise options to buy 750,000 shares. Braddock's move follows a similar announceme...

Many companies are misleading themselves when it comes to measuring the return on investment they gain from their e-business ventures, because they rely too much on in-house studies and calculations to gauge success, according to a report released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The research...

Online travel companies Travelocity and Priceline late Tuesday warned that the terrorist attacks of September 11th may hurt results later this year as consumers and businesses cut back on travel. Like rival Expedia, which earlier in the day said it expects business to pick up later in the year d...

While the Internet is proving to be a valuable tool for homebuyers, offering information about prices, neighborhoods and mortgage options, the Web is unlikely to replace the local real-estate agent anytime in the near future, analysts say. Real estate brokers and agents, however, have to keep pac...

With corporate assessments of the damage from last week's terrorist attacks beginning to trickle in, e-travel company Expedia said Tuesday that bookings are "encouraging," and Internet auctioneer eBay said that it remains on track to meet its third-quarter earnings and revenue goals. However, ...

Online brokerages, already suffering from a downturn in the stock market, are likely to see their shares fall further when U.S. equity trading resumes on Monday. Analysts are looking for stocks in general to decline once trading resumes, after a four-day suspension that began Tuesday following th...

Online retailers, like their brick-and-mortar counterparts, are collecting donations and helping the Red Cross with its effort to recover and aid victims following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of a hijacked plane in rural Pennsylvania. Ama...

Yahoo! will host the Web site for the next two World Cup soccer tournaments under an agreement announced Tuesday with the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Yahoo! said it has exclusive rights to produce, market and host the FIFAworldcup.com site, and will sell, along with...

A system that allows U.S. businesses and individuals to make estimated tax payments over the Internet is now live, following a pilot program that began last October, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday. The system "provides a convenient and secure method for paying taxes that is consistent...

IBM will sell more computers and other products on eBay as part of a broad software and marketing agreement announced by the two companies Thursday. eBay also said that it will use IBM's WebSphere software to power the upgraded version of its online marketplace. The deal is a big win for IBM, G...