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Dot-com job losses dipped below 1,000 in February, falling to their lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC) ...

NetGrocer, an online food delivery service that focuses on shipping packaged goods, has struck a deal with supermarket chain Stop & Shop to test in-store kiosks for its Web service. ...

Talk to just about anyone in the online auction business who isn't EBay and before long the conversation will degenerate into a David versus Goliath metaphor. ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it has settled cases against two Web sites accused of fraudulently selling treatments and tests for anthrax in the wake of last fall's terrorist attacks. ...

Even amid the ruins of energy giant Enron, EnronOnline was a still-shining jewel. ...

Online consumers spent more time at online bank and brokerage Web sites in January than at any other type of site, including portals and search engines, according to a new report from Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT). ...

In a sign that Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) free shipping offer may be pressuring other e-tailers, Buy.com has announced it is offering a similar deal to its shoppers ...

A popular theme in e-commerce these days is that companies can leverage their Web sites to improve overall performance. Within this philosophy, self-service -- using an Internet presence to help customers find answers to their questions -- is a hot topic. ...

Corporations will spend more to upgrade online customer service than on any other information technology effort in the next two years, according to a report released by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). ...

With a single transaction, EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) managed to do what lawsuits and a raft of other bad news could not: The auction giant brought high-flying PayPal's (Nasdaq: PYPL) stock back to Earth. ...

Someday I hope to understand how the U.S. government decides which mergers are allowed to go forward and which get stopped dead in their tracks. ...

U.S. e-commerce purchases topped the US$10 billion level in the fourth quarter of 2001 and totaled $32.6 billion in the year as a whole, growing much faster than overall retail sales, according to new figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). ...

Any doubt that fallout from the collapse of energy giant Enron -- which crumbled under the weight of a massive accounting scandal -- would reach the world of e-commerce was put to rest about two weeks ago. ...

Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq: TMPW) said the job board saw revenue drop in the fourth quarter but continued to post profits and remains positioned for growth in a challenging business climate. ...

Those who have watched e-commerce grow up probably had a lump in their throats when they read the news that research firm IDC predicted worldwide online sales will reach the US$1 trillion mark in 2002. ...

Sabre Holdings (NYSE: TSG) said Tuesday that it will seek to buy all outstanding shares of Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY), a move that would give Sabre full control of the travel site. ...

The Enron bankruptcy -- all US$60 billion of it, complete with political shockwaves and thousands of evaporating pensions -- should put the dot-com devastation into perspective. And for most of us, it probably does. After all, even e-commerce flameout champion Webvan couldnt nose over the $1 billion bar. ...

Bruised and battered by a week of bad news, online payment company PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) finally staggered into the Wall Street spotlight, becoming the first Internet IPO in nearly a year. ...

In a bid to increase sales -- especially in its electronics, tools and kitchen (ETK) segments -- Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) launched a long-planned wedding registry Thursday. ...

In the aftermath of the dot-com shakeout, surviving e-tailers have swooped in to buy the assets of defunct companies, relaunching once-dead sites to capitalize on existing brand names or e-tail foundations. So far, anecdotal evidence seems to show that when the price is right, bringing dead dot-coms back to life can be a sound strategy. ...