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Although their companies continue to spend money on many different aspects of e-business, corporate managers see less promise in the Internet than they did a year ago, according to a report released Wednesday by the Yankee Group. "Over the past year, the perception of Internet business has swung ...

Online travel company Expedia said Monday it is making its services available to French travelers through a joint venture with French national railroad company SNCF. Expedia's airline, hotel, train and car reservation services will be available on SNCF's Web site, which Expedia says is the top tr...

Online postage company Stamps.com said Friday that it cut about 25 percent of its workforce as part of a plan to reduce costs and turn a profit, and that chief financial officer Ken McBride will take over the chief executive post. McBride, who has been with the company since April 1999 and has se...

Internet brokerage E*Trade said late Wednesday that it plans to buy market maker Dempsey & Company for US$173.5 million in cash and stock, and that it will consolidate its existing operations in order to diversify its revenue sources and cut costs. The restructuring, which E*Trade described a...

Most financial-service Web sites fail to give users appropriate options for protecting the use of their personal financial information, according to a report released Wednesday by the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). The study found that mortgage companies and big banks are t...

AOL Time Warner and tax preparer H&R Block said Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year, cross-promotional alliance. The deal makes H&R Block the exclusive tax-service provider for America Online properties. H&R Block's services will be featured on AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Money...

AOL Time Warner and tax preparer H&R Block said Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year, cross-promotional alliance. The deal makes H&R Block the exclusive tax-service provider for America Online properties. H&R Block's services will be featured on AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Money...

AOL Time Warner and tax preparer H&R Block said Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year, cross-promotional alliance. The deal makes H&R Block the exclusive tax-service provider for America Online properties. H&R Block's services will be featured on AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Money...

A fertile market and a fertile territory for e-commerce -- online games and South Korea -- met up Monday when EA.com, the online gaming division of entertainment software maker Electronic Arts, announced plans to launch a localized version of its popular Ultima Online role-playing game in the Far...

Flower seller 1-800-Flowers.com achieved a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter, as strong Mother's Day sales fueled a 33 percent rise in online revenue, the company said Thursday. "Despite what continues to be a very challenging economy for retail companies, during our fourth quarter we were able...

Online music provider MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) said Wednesday it has removed pop-up window advertising and other ads from its music subscription service for which users pay monthly or annual fees. MP3.com chairman and chief executive officer Michael Robertson said that MP3.com users "have made it ...

HotJobs and Monster.com parent TMP Worldwide said that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked them for more information about merger plans for the online recruiting companies. "We still believe we can close in the fourth quarter," TMP spokesperson Dan Bustillos told the E-Commerce Tim...

The number of Americans with access to the Internet has grown 16 percent over the past year, with 58 percent of U.S. households now online, audience measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings said Monday. That rate, which covers July 2000 to July 2001, is slower than the 41 percent growth seen the pre...

Online content company Salon Media Group got much-needed boost after the close of trading Thursday, in the form of a US$2.5 million cash infusion from a group led by the investment firm WR Hambrecht & Co. and its chairman, Bill Hambrecht. Salon made the announcement as it reported a crushing ...

Of the Fortune 100 companies, 81 are now advertising online, up from 67 that did so a year ago, according to a report released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix. However, Jupiter said that major media buyers are not increasing their spending on Internet ads as fast as smaller advertisers are. "The ...

Earnest Thompson, director of corporate marketing and brand communications for Siemens in the United States, recently spoke with the E-Commerce Times about the company's Internet advertising campaigns. According to Thompson, online advertising should be coordinated with other parts of a company...

Job search Web site Monster.com helped parent company TMP Worldwide beat analyst estimates in the second quarter, as a weak economy resulted in more job changes, TMP Worldwide said Tuesday. The New York City-based staffing and advertising company reported income adjusted for special items of US$...

eBay said Tuesday it has acquired HomesDirect, an online auctioneer of foreclosed properties. eBay, which did not disclose the purchase price, said the acquisition will "significantly expand" its real estate category. HomesDirect was responsible for the sales of more than 116,000 homes last...

Internet trend-watcher Jupiter Media Metrix on Monday lowered its short-term outlook for the e-commerce sector, saying such factors as lack of capital and weak consumer spending are continuing to hurt the industry. At the same time, the report emphasized the long-term staying power of the Interne...

The growing use of "pro forma" financial results -- that is, when companies report income or loss figures excluding a host of supposedly "one-time" charges -- is drawing attention from critics who say companies may be publishing pro forma earnings to make quarterly earnings reports look better th...