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Special Report: Look Who’s Making Money Online

Not a day goes by without yet another report of massive high-tech layoffs and lowered financial expectations -- not to mention the economic slowdown, stock prices in steep decline and the ongoing series of dot-com closures. ...

Report: More Than One Path to E-tail Bliss

Pure plays that have already achieved significant scale, and niche players that have already built loyal customer bases, are likely to achieve success in the next stage of e-commerce evolution, according to a report released Mondayby The Boston ConsultingGroup ...

Buyer Beware: The Art of the Online Auction Scam

For a while Friday, you didn't have to go all the way to the South Pacific to find a piece of debris from the fallen space station Mir. In fact, you didn't even have to leave the heartland of the United States. ...

Marilyn Monroe Auction on eBay Flops

In another blow for the viability of high-ticket item online auctions, the hyped live bidding of an exclusive set of Marilyn Monroe nudephotographs on eBay ended without a sale Thursday evening ...

Net Appliance ‘Audrey’ Sacked After Five Months

Five months after unveiling one of the Internet's first home appliances, 3Com said Wednesday that it will discontinue offering its Web-surfing "nerve center for the home," dubbed "Audrey," in an effort to cut costs and reach profitability ...

Report: Global E-Commerce To Hit $550B in 2001

Despite mounting evidence that the global economy is slowing, total worldwide retail e-commerce is expected to reach US$550 billion in 2001, a 92 percent increase from 2000, according to a report released Tuesday by eMarketer ...

Egghead.com Executives To Exit

Two weeks after announcing it was laying off 77 employees to cut costs, computer software and hardware e-tailer Egghead.comsaid its chief financial officer, John Labbett, is leaving to "pursue a new opportunity closer to his home in Los Angeles." ...

Report: Online Toys Set To Soar To $1.2B

Online toy sales are on track to grow from US$793 million in 2000 to$1.2 billion by 2002, according to a report released Wednesday by The NPD Group ...

Study: Amazon Passes eBay in Total Traffic

Amazon jumped ahead of eBay during the month of February tobecome e-commerce's most visited Web site, according to a study releasedTuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Online Tax Filing Firms in Battle of Goliath vs. Goliath

With the deadline for filing U.S. tax returns barely a month away, Intuit and H&R Block have shown no sign of abandoning their dominant status in the online tax preparation and filing sector ...

One Year After Peak, Nasdaq Looking Peaked

They say that for the one-year anniversary, paper is the appropriate gift ...

eBay Scam Artists Face Criminal Charges

Federal prosecutors issued an indictment on Friday against three eBay usersfor self-bidding on their own art auctions in an attempt to spike bidprices. ...

Idealab! Jumps Silicon Valley Ship

Idealab!, the dot-com incubator behind eToys, CarsDirect and Petsmart.com, said Wednesday that it is moving some of its Silicon Valley functions to the company's Pasadena, California headquarters. The move may result in a number of job cuts over the next few months ...

The Last Days of eToys

Perhaps the tone for eToys' imminent farewell from e-commerce was set in February, when the online retailer specifically warned investors that its own stock was "worthless." ...

More Woes For Online Travel Industry

Southwest Airlines confirmed Monday that it has stopped offering its flights through online travel company Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) -- the second jolt to Travelocity's operations in less than a week ...

Meet the Mighty Morphin’ E-Commerce Rangers

There's only one directive that seems to hold true across the e-commerce landscape these days: to survive, literally, at all costs. ...

Running Lean and Mean To Survive in E-Business

As the dot-com shakeout nears the one-year mark, many companies might have a bad case of the E-Commerce Blues ...

Peapod Gains Fresh $30M in Financing

Royal Ahold, the parent company of online grocer Peapod, has infused the struggling e-tailer with an additional US$30 million in financing, Peapod announced Wednesday. ...

Study: Dot-Com Layoffs Taper Off

For the first time in eight months, the dot-com layoff trend appears to beslowing, falling 9 percent in February, according to a report released Tuesday by the job placement firmof Challenger, Gray and Christmas ...

New Trend? MSN May Charge Fees for UK Content

According to published reports, Internet service provider Microsoft Networkis considering charging users access fees for select content provided via its UK Web portal within the next year ...

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