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There is an interesting paradox developing in the online bookstore industry. Fourth quarter revenues (including holiday sales) are up, and books continue to be the top-selling product category on the Net, but virtually across the board, book e-tailers are falling short of analyst earnings estimates. ...

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 ...

Remember when people actually wondered if there would be a dot-com shakeout?Remember when you were Chicken Little if you displayed any anxiety about the New Economy? ...

Within the next month, a mess of online holiday sales figures will be released, to be scrutinized like tea leaves for signs of e-commerce's ultimate fate ...

Took another bath in tech stocks this year, did ya? ...

According to published reports, President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed into law a bill that renews the ban on key taxes related to the Internet and e-commerce ...

E-commerce giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has reorganized its business operations into five departments -- with an increased emphasis toward third-party services -- the company confirmed Thursday ...

Making another bid to reverse the economic slowdown that has hammered the U.S. economy overall and tech companies in particular, the U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday cut interest rates for the 10th time this year ...

Addressing perhaps the most closely watched prediction in e-commerce, e-tail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) on Tuesday reiterated its call for an operating profit in the fourth quarter of this year ...

Did you know that the current U.S. moratorium on Internet taxation does not ban taxes on goods sold via the Internet? If you did, count yourself among the lucky group that has not been confused or misled by the fragmented Net tax debate. ...

Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) on Wednesday reported a net loss of US$24.1 million, or 4 cents per share, for the third quarter ended September 30th. However, during a conference call following the release of its earnings report, Yahoo! chairman and chief executive officer Terry Semel said that the online giant will rebound once the overall economy does...

Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), which in the past has gotten questionable results from investments outside the travel sector, announced Tuesday that it plans to exercise its option for a 49 percent equity stake in an online loan service co-founded by the company ...

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. ...

News on Tuesday that the U.S. Federal Reserve had announced its ninth interest rate cut of 2001 briefly jiggered tech stocks, but left no apparent change in the long-term forecast for the sector ...

During the year, the Federal Open Market Committee of the U.S. Federal Reserve has lowered its interest rate target from 6.5 percent to 2.5 percent, its lowest level since the John F. Kennedy administration ...

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E-commerce service provider Global Sports (Nasdaq: GSPT) continued its expanding ways Friday by announcing its intent to purchase perhaps the leading name in pure-play online luxury sales, Ashford.com (Nasdaq: ASFD) ...

In Part I of this special report, the E-Commerce Times looked back at the first five major milestones in e-commerce history. ...