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EBay Buys Out Australian Partner for $65M

EBay has said it will pay US$65 million to buy out Ecorp's share of a joint venture that established eBay's online auction presence in Australia and New Zealand nearly three years ago ...

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Amazon’s Slow, Painful Dip in the Free Shipping Pool

Well, that pretty much does it. Amazon has to be done slashing its free-shipping threshold. Going from US$99 to $49 made sense, and the move from $49 to $25 is logical, too. But thats the end of the road. ...

Dot-Com Layoffs Top 1,000 for Second Straight Month

Internet companies disclosed plans to cut 1,193 jobs in August, fewer than in July but enough to mark the second straight month in which dot-com layoffs exceeded 1,000, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...

Amazon Lowers Free Shipping Threshold Again

Amazon.com has once again cut by half the amount shoppers must spend to qualify for its Super Saver free shipping offer, further escalating the price war it began early this year. ...

Discount E-Tailer SmartBargains Lands Venture Funding

In a rare piece of e-commerce venture funding news, SmartBargains said it has received a US$9 million cash infusion as the online bargain retailer seeks to reach more Web shoppers. ...

PayPal Settles Gaming Charges in New York

PayPal has agreed to pay a US$200,000 fine and to stop taking betting payments from New York residents by the end of the month as part of an agreement reached with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ...

New Rule of E-Commerce: Go Back to the Old Rules

Meet the new rules of e-commerce. Turns out, they are the same as the old rules. ...

Hotels.com HQ Back to Normal After Anthrax Scare

Hotels.com's offices were evacuated Tuesday and its stock suffered a sharp drop after a white powdery substance was discovered in the company's mailroom. Local authorities in McAllen, Texas, ordered the evacuation of the Hotels.com processing center -- where about 100 people process reservations made through the site -- as well as a nearby department store...

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E-Commerce Scripts Itself a Blockbuster

Few things are more gratifying for fans of e-commerce than seeing a traditional company -- especially a muscular, dominant company -- break into a cold sweat over the possibilities of online retail ...

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Lots of Smoke But No Fire

The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) has determined that states are losing out on millions of dollars in unpaid excise taxes because of online cigarette sales. This realization comes after the Federal Trade Commission got wise a few weeks ago that the government might be able to do more to grease the works for an e-commerce takeoff ...

EBay-PayPal Marriage Gets Regulatory Green Light

EBay and PayPal have announced that their antitrust waiting period -- a time during which the U.S. Department of Justice can ask for additional information from either company -- has expired without government regulators making a second request for more information. ...

Orbitz Unveils Direct Reservation System

In a move almost certain to draw heat from its many critics, travel site Orbitz has created a direct link to the ticket supplies of its major backers, saying that the move will help airlines and consumers save money ...

BN.com Faces Nasdaq Delisting

The Nasdaq stock exchange has given BarnesandNoble.com just over two months to either boost its stock price or face delisting, an often fatal blow to a public company's fortunes ...

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The Real Test for E-Commerce

Two years ago, e-commerce was still in its growth spurt. It would go to sleep at night and wake up half again as big. And last year, e-commerce was supposed to be tested for real. No more growth hormones, just old-fashioned business practices. ...

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Raise a Toast to the Stubborn

Most of us hit our heads against a wall and learn, quickly, that it hurts. Some people never learn, but those people just might be the ones to take the Internet to the next level. ...

Report: Teens and Kids Potential Online Gold Mine

Kids and teenagers made up nearly 20 percent of the overall online population in the month of July, highlighting the group's growing importance for Internet commerce and marketing, according to a report from Nielsen//NetRatings ...

Amazon Unveils Next Phase in Target Deal

Amazon rolled out the next phase of its five-year partnership with retailer Target. The companies have launched an integrated site that offers merchandise from Target, Amazon, Marshall Field's and Mervyns ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

E-Tail’s New Comeback Kids

They were among the e-commerce sectors given up for dead. But like others before them -- such as online grocery and clothing sales -- they have endured in the face of all adversity and have even begun to show signs of turnaround. ...

Priceline, Expedia Shift Strategies

Leading travel sites have unveiled a slew of promotions in recent days aimed at boosting their hotel sales, in apparent recognition that long-slumping airline ticket sales might not soon recover ...

Investors React Strongly to Monster Parent Warning

Shares of Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide tumbled to their lowest levels in nearly four years after the company reduced its outlook for the rest of this year and said it will lay off more workers ...

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