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E-Commerce Gets High Usability Marks

E-commerce Web sites and portals received the highest scores for navigation and usablity in a study of the busiest sites on the Internet released Monday by Modalis Research Technologies ...

The Name-Your-Problem E-tailer

Priceline.com has name recognition that only eBay and Amazon can rival. But while the other two companies have mixed in positive reports from time-to-time, even as they struggle against the downward flow of stock on the Nasdaq, Priceline hasn't been able to get our attention with much of anything but bad news. ...

Priceline Shelves Jobs, Expansion Plans

With an eye toward focusing on its core businesses, Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) said Thursday it has fired 48 workers, shelved plans to expand into Japan, and indefinitely postponed new product introductions. ...

Who’s Walking Away from the Web?

As if there weren't enough for e-commerce to worry about -- quick, somebody make sure Amazon is still up -- it seems that some people are concerned about a potential Internet backlash. ...

Report: Lax Cybercrime Laws Threaten E-Commerce

Few countries around the world have passed laws targeting online criminal activity, posing a threat to e-commerce and technological growth, according to a report released Wednesday. ...

Save Your Pennies, E-Shoppers!

I know several savvy shoppers who use Amazon.com just for the customer reviews of products, which turns out to be a good news/bad news proposition for the King of all E-tailers. ...

Amazon Endures Third Holiday Outage

The main shopping site of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) suffered a 40-minute outage on Tuesday, the third and longest shutdown for the site since Thanksgiving. ...

Online Payment Firm Targets B2B Market

Amid efforts to rebuild its stock value, CyberCash (Nasdaq: CYCH) on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its online payment system aimed at the business-to-business (B2B) marketplace. ...

Is Amazon Facing the Glitch That Stole Christmas?

To hear the folks at Amazon.com explain it, the two recent outages that took their main shopping site down for 15 to 30 minutes each, right smack in the middle of the day, are nothing to be alarmed about. ...

eBay Denies Having Eye on uBid

Online auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is denying that it is in talks to buy business-to-consumer auction house uBid, according to a report published Sunday. ...

EU OKs E-Commerce Dispute Law

The European Union (EU)passed a controversial law Thursday designed to boost consumer confidence ine-commerce by establishing rules about where lawsuits against Internet merchants can be filed ...

A ‘No’ Vote for Dot-Com Unions

A union at Amazon.com? Or for that matter, at eTown.com? The suggestion itself seems strangely anachronistic, a throwback to the days when unions served a valuable purpose, when the workers they represented were truly being taken advantage of, forced to work endless hours without overtime or placed in danger by the nature of their work. ...

Study: Small Biz Shunning E-Commerce

Small businesses in the United States are now more likely to use the Internet for advertising and promotion than for selling their products and services online, a survey released Wednesday found ...

Amazon Opens Wireless Phone Shop

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) added wireless phones and services to its expanding roster of products Tuesday evening ...

The ‘1 Percent’ Problem with E-Commerce

It was a sweet bit of news from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Despite some lackluster months for e-commerce, the agency said, online spending jumped 15 percent from the second quarter to the third. In all, Americans spent US$6.3 billion online from July through September. ...

Showtime for Holiday E-Commerce

A word to the CEOs, venture backers or board members of any dot-com companies teetering on the brink of collapse: ...

Holiday Glitches Bedevil Amazon, Others

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) was unavailable to shoppers briefly Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States ...

An Amazon Christmas?

Someday, when the entire online world is wired with high-speed connections, perhaps the home page at Amazon.com will make us really feel the holiday shopping spirit online. Maybe the site will play Christmas carols -- customized for each visitor of course, based on past purchases and online behavior. ...

AOL Expands in Latin America

Looking to pave the way for future growth in a largely untapped region, AOL Latin America (Nasdaq: AOLA) formally launched a portal Wednesday with content aimed at Internet users in countries including Venezuela, Chile and Colombia ...

Buy.com Says Goodbye to Australia

In a move designed to focus its dwindling cash resources on the United States, Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) said Monday it has ceased operations in Australia. ...

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