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Garden.com became the latest addition to the dot-com casualty list when the company announced a phased shutdown of its e-tail operations. ...

'Tis the season for online shopping forecasts, and with each passing day, itseems like there are new holiday predictions to digest like so much turkey and cranberry sauce. ...

Recently, the E-Commerce Times explored the e-business opportunities in which teenagers, despite limitations on their purchasing power, should be an e-tail target, rather than an e-tail afterthought ...

Despite the gloom and doom of the ongoing dot-com shakeout, a new report from eMarketer predicts that U.S. online retail sales will grow from a projected US$37 billion in 2000 to $125.6 billion over the next four years ...

Getting teenagers to buy online should be a snap, right? After all, they have the time, the Web know-how, the disposable income, and a seemingly inexhaustible hunger to consume new products and services ...

Despite an expected 300 percent spending increase on information technology security over the next four years, bad decision-making will leave U.S. companies almost as vulnerable to security breaches as they are today, according to a new report issued by Forrester Research ...

It's no secret that mis-targeted, misspent brand advertising dollars have gotten e-tailers into plenty of financial hot water over the past few years ...

The latest release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 should have been the perfect opportunity for e-tailers to show consumers they are serious about online privacy. Instead, it may turn out to be just the opposite ...

With an eye toward further integrating e-commerce into the everyday routines of consumers, 3Com Corporation released an Internet appliance Tuesday for the "nerve center" of the home ...

Most business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce technologies focus on automating the physical aspects of a company's fulfillment and order functions. However, the future success of B2B may lie in applications that hone in on the heart and soul of the Internet itself: the flow of information ...

How many times have you stopped just short of completing an online order because you were not sure of a product's size, color or overall look? ...

U.S. e-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2001 dropped 1.8 percent from the previous quarter, the Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Thursday. ...

Another Net appliance has made an early exit -- this time, Sony's eVilla Net Entertainment Center, which lasted just two months. ...

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) said Wednesday that it reached a deal with Columbia TriStar Television Distribution (CTTD), a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment (NYSE: SNE), to produce a daily syndicated television show focusing on "the stories behind the millions of items traded daily on eBay and other venues." ...

The latest dot-com job cut numbers released Tuesday by Challenger, Gray, & Christmas (CGC) paint a rather mixed picture of the Internet economy. ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case it filed against spammers who collected consumers' personal information, including credit card information, by sending unsolicited commercial e-mails that told people they had to supply the data or lose access to the Internet. ...

A one-day airfare sale helped increase sales more than 70 percent at Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY), the travel site said Monday. ...

The quest to be No. 1 in the online job recruitment space is now essentially a two-party race. ...

For the fourth time this year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit accusing an Internet company of unauthorized use of NCAA trademarks ...

The acquisition of online electronics retailer Outpost.comis in jeopardy, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Outpost's potential buyer, PC Connection ...