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Layoffs. Consolidations. Tumbling stock prices. When will the madness end? ...

Internet auctioneer eBay will be looking for more than the usual exposure when it combines with its real world auction arm, Butterfields, to auction a series of five nude Marilyn Monroe photographs online in March ...

Illustrating the extent of evolution that online business is facing, a report released Wednesday by IDC found that the number of private corporate Web portals might eventually surpass the number accessible by the public via the Internet ...

In October, about six months into the dot-com stock downturn, the E-Commerce Times asked industry analysts for their prognosis of several of e-commerce's most prominent stocks. The stocks had fallen so low, we could not help wondering, "When Will E-Commerce Stocks Rebound?" ...

Raising questions about the Internet's ability to sell tickets to major international events, technical problems on the official site of soccer's 2002 World Cup have left fans in the co-host countries of Japan and Korea unable to order tickets online for the championship of the world's most popular sport ...

Amid labor strife at well-known e-tailers Amazon.com and Webvan, another target of unionization in the dot-com world, consumer electronics site Etown, announced this week that it was laying off its entire staff of around 100 employees and closing down its Web site operations. ...

Brick-and-click sellers dominated the online holiday season in the UK,according to a new study released this week by Nielsen//NetRatings. ...

U.S. lawmakers are considering the launch of a federally funded e-commerce pilot program designed to helpsmall and mid-sized manufacturers take their businesses online. ...

When you examine the state of e-commerce today, one thing is abundantly clear: traditional brick-and-mortars are making the greatest inroads online. ...

In response to several lengthy January outages, online auction pacesetter eBay announced Thursday that it is increasing the scope of the fee credits it offers customers in the event of a site crash ...

If dot-coms are looking to find a scapegoat for their ongoing struggles, the Nasdaq Composite Stock Index makes an easy target. ...

Nominations for the Oscars -- the film industry's most glamorous honor -- are big business. ...

The news this week that MVP.com isclosing its site and selling the remaining assets to rival Sportsline.com came as no surprise to those familiar with the rash ofconsolidations sweeping through the online sporting goods arena. ...

Take a look around Dot-Com Island. There isn't an e-tail site still alive that hasn't been affected by the recent shakeout to some degree. However, some of the Web merchants are more likely to survive than others ...

E-commerce is being beaten up with bad press again. First it wasbabies being sold over the Net, then brokerages being warned for their questionableonline business practices. ...

Despite a fourth-quarter 2000 loss that came in just ahead of Wall Street expectations, Amazon.com announced Tuesday that it is laying off 1,300 workers -- 15 percent of its total staff -- and closing a distribution center in McDonough, Georgia and a customer service center in Seattle, Washington. ...

As recently as a year ago, it was an easy decision for a top-level executive to join a Net company. Sure, they would work extra hard and take a lower base salary, but in the long run, their insanely generous stock option plans would be well worth the toil ...

The ability to use an Internet auction to solicit sealed electricity contract bids played a crucial role in helping bring some order to California's protracted energy crisis, state officials told the E-Commerce Times ...

Seventy-five percent of children are willing to discloseprivate family information online in exchange for goods and services, according to a new report released by eMarketer. ...

Following one of the hottest trends in e-commerce, Internet grocer Webvan.com announced Monday it has joined forces with another e-tail site, in this case Petsmart.com, to open a pet store on the Webvan site. ...