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Even with its slender gain of 1.89 points Friday, the Nasdaq composite stock index has risen nearly 300 points since 2001 began -- a 12.1 percent improvement in 13 business days. But are e-commerce stocks joining in on the rally? With a few key exceptions, according to Morningstar.com analyst Dav...

Northern California buckled under the impact of rolling blackouts for the second day in a row Thursday, but Internet retailers based in the Silicon Valley say they have not suffered any power outages or lost sales -- yet. For example, Walmart.com, which is based just outside San Francisco, said t...

Most Net users and e-commerce watchers haven't heard a great deal about CDNow lately. But that might be the way the former high-flier wants it. After CDNow dominated the e-commerce headlines in 2000 with its financial troubles, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit, and a buyout by media giant...

In a bid to survive the ongoing dot-com shakeout, Drkoop.com (Nasdaq: KOOP) said Tuesday that it will cut 45 workers primarily in its Austin, Texas offices and move the company's headquarters to Santa Monica, California. Michael Davis, vice president and research area director for the Gartner...

The Worldwide E-Commerce Fraud Prevention Network, whose members include Amazon.com, American Express, Buy.com and Expedia.com, has announced the launch of MerchantFraudSquad.com, a new site dedicated to combating online fraud. MerchantFraudSquad is the first initiative of the Network, a non-pr...

While individual e-tailers have come under fire from some quarters for underwhelming holiday sales, many online shopping malls and portals doubled their growth rates over the same period, according to the Yankee Group. "The numbers are likely to be encouraging for portals to keep the mall concep...

Boosted by strong customer service reviews, QVC.com rose to the top of Forrester Research's General Merchandise PowerRankings, beating both Amazon.com and BestBuy.com. According to the report, a lack of privacy policy links on checkout pages, vague inventory status information and slow phone-base...

eBay went to bed on December 31st flush with holiday success, and woke up to a New Year full of snags. Over the past several weeks, the auction giant suffered the longest outage in recent memory, faced down a throng of irate users over a privacy breach, and found itself slapped with a lawsuit b...

There is an interesting paradox developing in the online bookstore industry. Fourth quarter revenues (including holiday sales) are up, and books continue to be the top-selling product category on the Net, but virtually across the board, book e-tailers are falling short of analyst earnings estimates....

In December, the job placement firm of Challenger, Gray and Christmas released a report saying that Internet job losses had increased for seven straight months, and that more than 40,000 dot-com jobs had disappeared in a 12-month period. The sheer number of layoffs have gotten most of the attention...

MVP.com announced Monday that it has laid off 36 more employees as part of a restructuring plan the online sports e-tailer began in December, when it laid off 79 people. MVP.com spokesperson Paula Davis told the E-Commerce Times that the layoffs were across all departments and all levels. The spor...

More than 90 percent of online shoppers were satisfied with their holiday shopping experiences and more than two-thirds plan to buy online again soon, according to a report released Monday by the NPD Group. The NPD e-Visory shows that 57 percent of shoppers were "very" or "extremely" satisfied...

Boosted by gains in big cap tech stocks like Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, the Nasdaq composite stock index barely ended its seven-session losing streak Thursday, finishing up 7.34 points in the fifth largest volume trading day in its history. The tech stocks struggled to stay in positive territory ...

With the nomination Wednesday of Don Evans as U.S. Secretary of Commerce by President-elect George W. Bush, many e-commerce analysts are wondering how the potential new Cabinet member will affect the New Economy. So far, little is known about the technology views of Evans, who is reportedly one of B...

Many brick-and-click Web merchants are following a basic recipe for success this holiday season, according to a new report from the Yankee Group. According to "Performance Enhancing Strategies for Online Retailers," such offline mainstays as JCPenney.com, LandsEnd.com, and SharperImage.com will ...

Many e-tailers will not have the capabilities to meet growing customer service demands this holiday season, according to a report issued by Jupiter Research and the NPD Group. Sixty-two percent of consumers who shopped online in 1999 and contacted customer service had a negative impression of onli...

Auction sites are dominating the 2000 online holiday shopping season, according to a report issued by Media Metrix. For the two weeks ended November 26th and December 3rd, Web auction giant eBay averaged 60 percent more unique daily visitors than the Internet's top retail site Amazon.com, the r...

National Security Council top cyber-official Richard Clarke said Friday that the next president of the United States has to make Internet security a top priority if the country is to avoid potentially catastrophic events. "What are we prepared to do now to reduce the probability and to mitigat...

Women have made a higher percentage of online purchases than men for two quarters running, according to a survey released Thursday by Greenfield Online. The report indicates that sales to women outnumbered sales to men by 2 percent in the third quarter of 2000. Shopping categories that were p...

Tower Records and MP3.com announced a deal Wednesday that will provide customers with immediate online streaming access to music they purchase from TowerRecords.com, and eventually Tower Records brick-and-mortar retail stores. The agreement to extend MP3's "Instant Listening" service to Tower was ...