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Imagine a Web with No Links

The Web won't be much of a Web anymore if governments and corporations are allowed to continue on their destructive path, dictating when and how people can insert links to other sites when creating their own Internet content. Forget about the unthinkable for now and contemplate instead a Web with ...

Shakeout Time for Internet Brokerages – Part II

There is an age-old theory that stock brokerages do not need to worry about how the market is doing, because they get paid on commission whether the order is a buy or a sell. However, the rise and fall of the New Economy has challenged that assumption. With so many brokerages -- traditional, pur...

Shakeout Time for Internet Brokerages – Part I

Not only has there been a dramatic drop in new accounts opened at online brokerages, but trading volumes are way down as well. Major players are cutting staff and reporting losses. Mirroring the dot-com shakeout, the Internet brokerage sector may be heading into a shakeout of its own. "The downt...

Venture Capital’s Biggest Losers

The venture capitalists who got blindsided when the dot-com bubble burst lost a whole lot of money -- real money, to be sure. The question is, who were VC's biggest losers -- the companies and individuals who poured dollars into e-commerce businesses, only to find no riches at the end of the rai...

The Internet Dating Biz Gets Its Clicks

Despite years of success at the business of matchmaking, real-world dating services are in a losing battle with the Web for a couple of reasons. Well, actually three reasons. Wait, make that four or five or six reasons. The bottom line is that offline dating services simply cannot compete with wh...

Yahoo! Pulls Porn from Network in Abrupt Turnaround

Yahoo! said Friday that it is removing pornographic material from its shopping, auction and classified sections, namely adult-related videos and DVDs being sold by merchants on the giant portal. The announcement came three days after Yahoo! confirmed that it was venturing further into the tainte...

Egghead Cuts 178 Workers

In a bid to survive in a slumping economy, Egghead.com said Friday that it has given pink slips to 21 workers in the company's Menlo Park, California offices and to 157 workers in its Vancouver, Washington facility. The cut will reduce Egghead.com's workforce by 29 percent. The company said that...

Tech Sector Layoffs: Not What You Think

Despite the common perception that the recent wave of technology layoffs is due to companies being unable to make payroll, it appears that is not necessarily the case. While some embattled dot-coms and tech companies are certainly at the end of their financial ropes, others have quite different...

Homes.com Cuts 150 Workers

Homes.com announced Wednesday that it is laying off approximately 150 employees in a bid to preserve cash and move toward positive cash flow from operations. The layoffs, which represent approximately 40 percent of the company's employees, will be made in sales, product development and adminis...

Alternative Payment Methods Get No Respect Online

Alternative payment methods, such as prepaid value cards and Web currency, are being used online, but they'll never dethrone the king of the dot-com world: the credit card. According to Yankee Group analyst Christine Loeber alternative payment methods are "not gathering much steam." The more e...

Airlines Withdraw Internet Commissions

Northwest Airlines Corp. and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said Wednesday that effective March 1st, they will no longer pay commissions on Internet ticket sales in the United States and Canada. In response, the online travel company Travelocity said that it would begin charging $10 service fees on tic...

Internet Spending To Survive U.S. Consumer Confidence Drop

Analysts disagree on whether Tuesday's downbeat economic news, including a reported drop in consumer confidence to its lowest level in nearly five years, is likely to drag down e-commerce spending levels. Forrester analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times not only that "consumers are de...

Microsoft, IBM Settle E-Commerce Standards Battle

Oasis, a consortium including IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, announced Thursday that it will start to integrate a competing e-commerce standard being developed by Microsoft. The consortium, which is working under the auspices of the United Nations to develop a standard for e-business...

‘Hannibal’ Makes E-Commerce Killing

Film fans are finding that buying their movie tickets via the Internet is an increasingly attractive option, especially when the movie is as red-hot as box office hit "Hannibal." "We sold three times as many movie tickets online [during] Hannibal's opening weekend than we had the week before," ...

The Undercover Online Chocolate Shopper

This weekend is your virtual last chance to use the Web to send chocolates in time for Valentine's Day. Because there's quite a variety of chocolate shops on the Net, the E-Commerce Times has taken a bite out of the issue for you, testing both the sites and the sweets. Romantic consumers and e-...

Report: Dot-Com Layoffs Hit Record High in January

E-commerce and tech layoffs continue to mount, hitting a record number of 44,851 for the month of January, according to a report released Tuesday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The executive placement firm, which tracks daily job cuts in various sectors, found that layoffs in the combine...

The Super Bowl Shakeout Stakeout

A year ago, approximately 20 dot-com companies -- including half a dozen e-commerce startups -- paid US$2.2 million for 30 seconds of advertising time during television's most watched sporting event, the Super Bowl. However, not only are there no new pure-plays reportedly coming on board to advertis...

eBay’s Not-So Happy New Year

eBay went to bed on December 31st flush with holiday success, and woke up to a New Year full of snags. Over the past several weeks, the auction giant suffered the longest outage in recent memory, faced down a throng of irate users over a privacy breach, and found itself slapped with a lawsuit b...

Yahoo! No Longer Home of the Free

Does the decision by Internet giant Yahoo! to start charging its users auction listing fees mark the beginning of the end for free Internet services and content? Starting Wednesday, Yahoo! began assessing fees of up to US$2.25 for auction listings, based on the starting and reserve prices of the it...

Any Outrage Over E-Commerce Outages?

For e-commerce firms, downtimes are the worst of times. However, some companies are fighting back by questioning why the Net is being held to higher standards than the rest of society.

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