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While there is no single "gold standard" for online design, experts say there are a number of high-quality Web sites that manage to approach that ideal by excelling in the areas of functionality, style and ease of use ...

Industry analysts say retailers can generate increased revenues from their Web operations without cannibalizing sales that would have been made in their offline stores and without having to make huge new investments. ...

Speaking strictly hypothetically -- it is, after all, one of the few consistently profitable pure e-commerce companies around -- if EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY)were to disappear tomorrow, there would be plenty of competitors to grab up the online auction giant's customers ...

While the digital divide -- the rift between those with access to computers and the Internet and without -- continues to crumble in the United States, analysts generally agree that e-commerce is not seeing a major share of the benefits ...

Apparently, some old fuddy-duddies knew a thing or two about the New Economy after all ...

With global tensions and economic insecurity shadowing what is typically a season of generosity and cheer, the retail industry had reason to fear that this year's holiday shoppers would shy away from offline retailers, online retailers -- or both. ...

Experts say that strategic and operational preparations by an e-commerce company for 2002 should have been set in motion well before today ...

In Part 2 of this special report, the E-Commerce Times continues to examine why an increase in taxation of online sales is all but inevitable ...

Death and taxes. The former is not inevitable in e-commerce, although many online retail sites have met that fate in the past year or two. However, many experts say that taxes on e-commerce are indeed inevitable, as Internet shopping continues to gain in popularity and cash-strapped states look to recoup lost revenue ...

It's one of the oldest forms of communication, but word-of-mouth remains a potent marketing force in the digital age. E-commerce experts say that pass-it-along marketing -- also known as viral marketing -- is a highly effective way to create online buzz for new products and services ...

Whatever the future holds for online prescription drug sales, Drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM) is standing by its predictions of profitability by the year 2004, even after another quarter of reported losses ...