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Amazon Cements First European Brick-and-Mortar Alliance

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) expanded its reach into brick-and-mortar stores overseas with its announcement Wednesday that its British arm, Amazon.co.uk, has teamed up with European mobile phone provider Carphone Warehouse to offer customers pre-paid phones online. ...

Internet Gambling Goes to Court

There's a case brewing in Louisiana that mayblow the lid off virtual casinos everywhere ...

Webvan Woos Nasdaq with Reverse Stock Split

Shareholders at the annual meeting for urban delivery e-tailer Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) approved a reverse stock split Friday, in an attempt to get the value of company shares over the US$1 minimum required by the Nasdaq. ...

Yahoo! Singing New Tune with Acquisition of Launch.com

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) continued its ongoing transformation into a full-fledged media company with the announcement Thursday that it is acquiring online music provider Launch Media (Nasdaq: LAUN) for approximately US$12 million ...

U.S. Agencies Say E-Signature Law Is Doing the Job

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Commerce released a report Wednesday recommending that Congress take no action to amend the digital signature law, also known as the Electronic Signature in Global & National Commerce Act (ESIGN), which was signed by President Bill Clinton a year ago. ...

U.S. Consults Internet Giants on Web Auction Fraud

U.S. Congressional lawmakers in the House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling upon some of the Internet's biggest e-tailers to help prevent online auction fraud ...

UK Consumer Advocate Spills Credit-Card Data

The Consumers' Association, a British advocacy group that campaigns to increase online security, said Friday that it suffered a security breach in its TaxCalcsoftware site that left the credit-card information of nearly 3,000customers exposed to unauthorized third parties ...

Databases Exposed at Online Credit-Card Security Firm

Databases at online credit card processing and security provider Anacom Communications were illegally accessed this week, Anacom's parent company ZixIt Corporation confirmed Thursday ...

Report: Bad Signs for UK E-tailers

Despite the fact that more people in the UK are shopping over the Internetthan ever before, a report released Tuesday by Which? Online and theUK Consumers' Association reveals several potential warning signs forBritish e-tailers ...

PurchasePro Cuts Workforce in Half

A month after losing its co-founder and chief executive officer, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce company PurchasePro (Nasdaq: PPRO) said Monday that it is slashing its workforce by approximately 50 percent, as part of a new cost control program ...

Report: Regulations Choke European E-tail

Online shopping in Europe is unlikely ever to catch up with e-commerce levels in the U.S., in large part because of regulatory hurdles and small domestic markets, a Forrester Research analyst told the E-Commerce Times on Monday ...

Report: Monster.com Swallows the Competition

Monster.com has earned the title of top-rated online job search site,according to a report issued Wednesday byGreenfield Online ...

U.S. To Target Fraudulent Health Sites

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is implementinga new plan to crack down on Web sites selling fraudulent curesfor terminal diseases such as cancer and AIDS ...

Yahoo! Suit Against French Activists Passes First Test

In the latest turn of events concerning the regulation of Nazi and other hate-related memorabilia sales online, a U.S. district court in California Thursday decided not to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) aiming to declare a French court's ruling against the Internet portal unenforceable ...

Report: Despite Sales Slump, E-Tailers Turning More Surfers into Buyers

A drop-off in first-quarter sales by e-commerce firms following the holiday season does not necessarily mean things are all bad for e-tailers, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday. ...

Report: Napster Downloads Fall 87 Percent Since February

If the file download numbers released Tuesday by Webnoize are any indication, Napster fans had better keep their fingerscrossed that Napster's potential deal with MusicNet goes through ...

New Life: iVillage Can Stay on Nasdaq Street

iVillage.com (Nasdaq: IVIL) will remain on the same "street" as its tech stock neighborsafter all. The women's site announced Friday that it will not be kicked off the Nasdaq stock exchange. ...

Internet Pay-Per-View Movie Site Unveiled – Does It Matter?

Hollywood.com (Nasdaq: HOLL) and CinemaNow announced Thursday that they are creating a new, co-branded pay-per-view movie site scheduled to open in June. ...

Bertelsmann Adds MyPlay.com to Online Music Library

Bertelsmann AG announced another addition to its online music empire Wednesday, saying it has acquired Internet music collection service MyPlay.com ...

U.S. Settles ‘Free Trial’ Case with Porn Sites

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that it has approved a settlement agreement with two adult Websites that had been charged with running deceptive "free trial" offers and placing unauthorized charges on consumer credit cards ...

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