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If you build it -- and tell enough people about it --they will come, and hopefully buy ...

The next phase of e-commerce may cast the World Wide Web in a backup role. ...

As Web merchants head into the holiday season, e-tail marketers are looking at a whole bunch of skittish and penny-pinching consumers -- and trying to figure out how to get them to purchase gifts online. ...

Unfortunately, Jeff Bezos and Sir Winston Churchillwill never share a trade show keynote bill ...

Dirty laundry. Household nuisance for you and me. Catalyst for Internet technology innovation for a few others ...

Web site designers at e-commerce companies may be feeling repressed these days because growing customer demand for site usability is limiting designers' freedom to employ the beloved bell-and-whistle ...

Ask people what they think of the better-than-expected earnings report from Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO). Your informal poll may drum up more ho-hums than hoorays ...

A word of advice to small U.S. e-tailers: what works for EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) might not work for you ...

Remember the phrase, "Content is king"? ...

Career planning in e-commerce is not for the weak-spirited. A struggling technology sector and an economy teetering on recession have severely limitedthe opportunities for middle- and upper-level managers ...

Online shoppers are like racehorses. They're on track, but they spook easily ...

Twenty-two-year-old chief executives are hard to find at e-commerce trade shows these days. Until the tech shakeout began in full, dot-com stardom had been the reward for many young entrepreneurs ...

Faced with intense pressure to grow their businesses quickly, e-commerce executives have been forced to make countless critical decisions -- sometimes at odds with what had once been unassailable Old Economy practices ...

General Motors (NYSE: GM) says that eGM, the internal organization created to key GM's online business development, is a transient entity. GM's hope is to absorb the learnings of eGM, disperse them throughout the company, and evolve into a whole e-corporation ...

Automotive kingpin General Motors (NYSE: GM) is serious about e-business. In 1999, GM created eGM, an internal organization intended to steer the company around costly e-mishaps and toward the best online business practices ...

Is the strip-mall travel agent going to go the way ofthe dinosaur? ...

Can we conclude that as long as e-tailers carefully manage consumer expectations, and leverage technology and delivery partnerships, they can rest easy about their logistics processes? Not quite ...

In theory, online shoppers should be easy to please. Simply deliver purchased goods when promised, in good quality and at a reasonable cost. Catalog retailers have been doing this for decades, right? ...

According to its main financial backer, Valassis Communications (NYSE: VCI), online coupon provider Save.com will cease operations due toinsufficient funding and a lack of advertisers ...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) heard from the U.S. Court of Appeals this week that its pre-owned vehicles Web site wasoperating in violation of Texas state laws ...