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If you lost 100,000 customers in the course of one fiscal year, as Internet-only banks have, what would you do? ...

Remember when the concept of a "paperless society" was all the rage? ...

The ever-expanding dot-com graveyard added a new name to its roster over the weekend. Flooz.com, the company that dealt in Internet-based currency and electronic gift certificates, quietly closed its virtual doors. Among its other difficulties, Flooz was, according to early reports, a victim of massive credit card fraud of at least US$300,000 ...

Aside from its obvious commercial potential, the greatest promise of e-commerce has always been its potential to be an all-inclusive forum. All of the interpersonal exchanges that seem to slight certain ethnic or minority groups offline were supposed to be less of a problem when doing business electronically, right? ...

The latest best friends in multichannel sales are Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Circuit City (NYSE: CC) ...

Throughout these pioneer days of e-commerce, the greatest challenge facing the industry has been creating and sustaining consumer need ...

Sometimes it seems that if e-commerce ultimately emerges victorious as a true contender in the mass market, it will do so in spite of extraordinary obstacles ...

You may never have heard of one Jim Geringer, but as governor of the great state of Wyoming, he is making some serious noise about taxing Internet purchases ...

Several months ago, industry observers were writing the epitaph for name-your-own-price e-tailer Priceline.com ...

Perhaps the most ironic development in the ongoing struggle of music file-sharing service Napster is that the site spawned an entire industry of digital music ...

E-commerce is suffering from a severe case of nearsightedness ...

If we chronicle the evolution of electronic commerce via the headlines, the conventional wisdom is that online privacy is Job One ...

Of everything e-commerce participants have learned so far, one rather retro lesson has taken on new meaning: ...

It appears there is a whole lot of window surfing going on at e-tail Web sites and not enough buying ...

Some saw it as the greatest test of middle America's potential to shift its collective buying behavior online when Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Kmart (NYSE: KM) debuted splashy Web sites. ...

This could well go down in history as the summer the U.S. government finally woke up and recognized electronic commerce as something more than a passing fad ...

For those wondering why chief executive officer Jeff Bezos of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) still has a smile on his face, this week's answer can be summed up three letters: AOL ...

Will we ever understand the Web shopper? ...

Online advertising campaigns result in significantly more traffic to e-tail Web sites and attract attentive visitors who are likely to linger, according to new research by Media Metrix (Nasdaq: MMXI) division AdRelevance. ...

In the world of electronic commerce I may have the best job possible ...