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It's one of those stories that everyone loves to tell. EBay, as the legend goes, became a billion-dollar global powerhouse after starting off as a place where Pierre Omidyar's wife could sell and buy Pez dispensers ...

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 ...

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. ...

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.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. ...

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 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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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 ...