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A financial technology services firm on Monday unveiled Nopaperbills.com, a Web site where consumers and small businesses can receive, view and pay both electronic and paper bills over the Internet. However, an analyst at e-financial research and consulting firm Celent told the E-Commerce Times...

E-business software firm SAP announced Friday that U.S. antitrust authorities have approved its increased investment in Commerce One, boosting SAP's total stake in the e-marketplace provider to more than 20 percent. "With its seat on Commerce One's board, SAP will be one of the bigger influencers...

A snafu on the Web site of United Airlines allowed travelers to book round-trip flights from Chicago to Bombay, India -- via Frankfurt, Germany -- for a mere US$140 on Tuesday. By the time United discovered the software problem Tuesday afternoon, about 120 consumers had booked the unintended fire...

Online retailer Buy.com might have to close its doors because its credit card processor plans to end their relationship on September 1st, according to Buy.com's quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week. "Buy.com will probably end up getting a new credit ca...

E-commerce service provider Beyond.com launched an online software and hardware shopping mall Monday, offering computer-related products from Beyond's eStore clients. "The mall is a marriage between our old retail site and our eStores -- leveraging our brand, but still directing consumers directl...

Online currency provider Beenz.com announced late Thursday that its currency would be invalid as of August 26th. The company's collapse comes just one week after rival e-currency site Flooz.com suspended its operations. Unlike Flooz, which closed abruptly, Beenz is giving its customers a 10-day n...

Technology support and services firms are leading U.S. small businesses in using and investing in the Internet, but manufacturing firms are a surprising second, according to a report released by IDC on Wednesday. Manufacturing firms, often deemed late-adopters of technology, have incorporated th...

Financial software provider BizCurrency said Tuesday that it is offering foreign currency exchanges for transactions conducted through online business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces. According to Fritz McCormick, analyst at e-financial research firm Celent Communications, BizCurrency is looking ...

Just two days after shutting down operations, online currency provider Flooz.com told its partners Friday that it plans to resume business, possibly by way of a merger. "We have been in discussions with several companies about merging to create a stronger entity to operate in this challenging envi...

Online auction site BidBay.com said Thursday that it has filed a motion to dismiss the trademark infringement lawsuit recently filed against it by Internet auction giant eBay. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California on Tuesday, Tujunga, California-based BidBay contended tha...

Tickets.com, a Costa Mesa, California-based Web site that provides ticketing for live events, announced Thursday that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel will allow the company to remain listed on the Nasdaq exchange. Tickets.com drummed up US$17 million in additional equity financing, and co...

With tax rebate checks from the U.S. government beginning to arrive in consumer mailboxes, some e-tailers are hoping the extra cash will make its way to their bottom lines. According to many industry experts, however, online businesses should not head for the bank quite yet. Due to the nominal a...

Travel e-tailer Travelocity.com officially launched a speech-driven customer service application Monday that will allow customers to review existing travel plans over the phone, the company said. Forrester Research senior analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Times that this innovation i...

The U.S. government moved one step closer to a permanent ban on Internet access taxes and a five-year extension on the moratorium on multiple or discriminatory Internet taxes Thursday, when the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law passed the "Internet Tax Nondiscrimin...

Though some observers say that the Internet provides crucial value to life insurance consumers as a research and information tool, the Web might not be the best place to find good deals, according to findings released Tuesday by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA). "We thought that term lif...

GoTo.com announced Monday that it will spin off its auctions unit into a self-contained auction service provider called ChannelAdvisor. "As more large companies see online auctions as viable ways to liquidate more merchandise, services like those from ChannelAdvisor will become even more needed ...

Total U.S. online spending decreased from US$3.9 billion in May to $3.2 billion in June, an 18.3 percent drop, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research in conjunction with Greenfield Online. Even taking the sputtering U.S. economy into account, Forrester research director Ja...

In the aftermath of Amazon.com's release of its Q2 earnings report Monday, several industry analysts believe that the e-tailer can make good on its prediction of year-end profitability. The consensus is that Amazon is pulling back enough on its growth strategy to reach its goal of profitability ...

The Electronic Payments Association announced Monday that ATM or debit cards can be used on the Internet with transaction authentication and security that are comparable to point-of-sale purchases. "For consumers, purchasing online with digitally-authenticated ATM cards is no different from maki...

Companies that want to take advantage of the opportunities posed by e-commerce will have to do a better job managing dynamic pricing strategies, intellectual property rights, and partnership relationships, researchers at the University of California-Irvine Graduate School of Management announced ...