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Waking up from a summertime slumber, online spending increased approximately 25 percent in July, rising to US$3.98 billion from $3.2 billion in June, according to the latest Forrester Online Retail Index, released Wednesday ...

E-business marketplace provider FairMarket (Nasdaq: FAIM) announced Wednesday that it is laying off 38 employees -- 35 percent of its workforce -- due to "continuing trends in the e-business marketplace." ...

Pop quiz: How many of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, have a national online grocer at their disposal that will deliver both perishables and non-perishables? ...

Over 33 million people in the UK, or 60 percent of the region's population, ventured online between April and June, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter MMXI. ...

Web infrastructure services provider VeriSign said Monday it is offering a new Shared Hosting Security Service aimed at helping small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) receive the kind of e-commerce security previouslyreserved for much larger companies ...

Multinational companies based in the U.S. have a long way to go to ensure the privacy of customer data, particularly data transferred via the Internet, according to a study released Thursday by Andersen. ...

Egghead.com announced Wednesday that it is selling its assets to Silicon Valley-based brick-and-mortar retail chain Fry's Electronics as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. ...

U.S. Internet businesses are not the only ones experiencing a slowdown in the online advertising market, according to a survey released Tuesday by Jupiter MMXI ...

In a significant show of support for Web portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), which faces ongoing litigation over the sale of Nazi-related items in France via its U.S.-based Web site, several prominent Internet industry associations and business organizations have filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of Yahoo! in U.S. District Court ...

Linux distributor Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) is set to launch a new e-commerce suite built on an open-source platform, the company told the E-Commerce Times Friday. ...

Online health care firm WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) said Thursday that its losses for the second quarter ending June 30th narrowed to 7 U.S. cents per share, compared to a loss of 9 cents per share in this year's first quarter. ...

Is the online travel market big enough to comfortably feed three of its giants -- Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE),Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) and Orbitz -- at the same time? ...

Online industrial auction specialist DoveBid said Tuesday it has acquired the capital asset disposition firm TradeOut as part of an aggressive effort to expand DoveBid's business-to-business (B2B) offerings. The TradeOut purchase is DoveBid's 15th acquisition in the past two years ...

Many years from now, when stock analysts reflect upon the history of the first dot-com boom and subsequent shakeout, how will it look? ...

Cheap Tickets (Nasdaq: CTIX), which sells travel tickets through retail outlets, over the Internet and by phone, reported a profitThursday for the tenth consecutive quarter, announcing diluted net income for the second quarter ended June 30th of 5 U.S. cents per share. ...

Steady improvements to customer service and the product mix at Priceline.com(Nasdaq: PCLN) have given the "name your price" online travel broker the first profitable quarter in its history and a victory over Wall Street estimates, the company said Tuesday ...

As one of the Internet's largest providers of hardware and software, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) helps customers "dot-com" their enterprises and computer environments. Since the company's inception in 1982, the four-person startup has built up a workforce of more than 37,000 employees in 170 countries, and a pro forma net income of US$1.45 billion for the fiscal year 2001...

Scott Anderson, Sun's director of eMarketing, recently talked with the E-Commerce Times about how Sun's online marketing efforts leverage the company's vision of technology working for the consumer, rather than the other way around. ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Thursday it is now offering over 30 new Web hosting packages aimed primarily at the small-to-medium business market. ...

Aiming to expand its business with other travel suppliers, Expedia.com (Nasdaq: EXPE) announced Wednesday that it has launched the Worldwide Travel Exchange (WWTE), a private booking operation that will provide wholesale travel services. ...