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E-commerce and tech layoffs continue to mount, hitting a record number of 44,851 for the month of January, according to a report released by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...

The recent service outages at Amazon.com, eBay and other e-commerce sitesfrustrated shoppers, lowered company revenues and raised mediaeyebrows. For e-commerce firms, downtimes are the worst of times ...

Troubled toy e-tailer eToys officially moved to the dot-com critical list, announcing that approximately 70 percent of the company's 1,000 employees have been informed that their jobs are being eliminated ...

Few people quibble over smart card functionality. ...

A latecomer to the dot-com stage, discount e-tail site BlueLight.com is dancing as gracefully as it can through its first holiday season, sidestepping technical glitches caused by the seasonal shopping boom while displaying a variety of marketing moves that are drawing in more shoppers ...

From corporate formation to business licensing to taxation, lawyers have a hand in nearly every aspect of a fledging e-commerce business. ...

Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) on Tuesday posted a loss of US$14 million for its fiscal fourth quarter ended September 28th, as revenues fell 33 percent to $92.2 million, compared with revenues of $138 million in the year-ago period. ...

On the Web, somewhere between the categories of financial information and pornography, is another key sector where people pay for access: online dating services. ...

U.S. businesses are more concerned about the impact that online security problems have on consumer confidence and trust in e-business, than about suffering an actual financial loss due to a security breach, according to a study released Wednesday by Internet measurement firm Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) ...

E-tail site Shopping.com will cease to exist as a standalone site on the AltaVista network because e-commerce shopping is "no longer part of [Alta Vista's] focus," AltaVista spokesperson David Emmanuel told the E-Commerce Times on Monday. ...

Gateway (NYSE: GTW) said Thursday that its third-quarter loss will be far worse than earlier Wall Street's expectations and blamed the shortfall in part on a drop in demand following the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. ...

Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) said Friday that it would cut 10 percent of its non-customer-service workforce and institute a hiring freeze, as well as reduce its discretionary expenditures. ...

Despite promises to the contrary and a number of state laws making it unlawful to send unsolicited, commercial e-mail, the California Attorney General and the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DOCA), including its newly formed Office of Privacy Protection, appear to have done little to fight the crush of spam that is burdening businesses in the state...

Dot-com job cuts fell to 2,986 in September, the lowest level since July 2000 -- the month that marked the beginning of the dot-com job-cutting spree that has claimed more than 125,000 jobs in 15 months -- according to a report released Monday by executive placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC) ...

At mid-year, in terms of dollars and number of deals made, venture capital funding for U.S. investments was less than half of what it was in 2000, according to VentureWire, which tracks private equity investment. ...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) opened a travel store on its Web site Wednesday, featuring booking services and travel status information from travel site Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE) ...

When spam is mentioned, most business owners immediately get a bad taste in their mouths. Spam costs companies time and money, from employees sifting legitimate e-mail from junk, to the technical and legal procedures used to fight spammers ...

Sites offering contests and promotional offers, financial management tools and multi-state lottery information were the newcomers to the Internet's Top 50 Web sites, according to the latest online audience measurement report from Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI), released Monday ...

At the beginning of the summer, billionaire Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal jumped into the Internet stock game with a king-size splash ...

This year's Internet cause celebre, the Pets.com Sock Puppet, goes one better than last year's major ploy, viral marketing. ...