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Drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM) said Tuesday that sales grew and expenses fell during the third quarter, helping the e-tailer to post a loss of about US$15 million, less than half of the financial loss it recorded for the same period last year. ...

Surging apparel sales will help fuel a 43 percent rise in online spending this holiday season, Web measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) said Monday. ...

Not long ago, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) issued a press release arguing that its MSN network had leapfrogged Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to become the most popular family of Web sites on the Internet. ...

Outpost.com (Nasdaq: COOL), one of the first big-name pure-play e-tailers, continues to lose money but says it expects to have enough cash to hang on until its proposed merger with Fry's Electronics can be consummated. ...

Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) reported its largest quarterly profit to date on Wednesday -- US$4.9 million -- despite a decline in revenue attributed to flying fears after the September 11th terrorist attacks. ...

Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) said Tuesday it will stick by its prediction that U.S. consumers will spend US$11 billion online this holiday season. ...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. ...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. ...

It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. ...

Americans spent US$4.7 billion online in September, less than they did in August, but well ahead of last year's pace, according to a report released Tuesday by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) and Harris Interactive (Nasdaq: HPOL). ...

While news sites dominated Internet use during September, one e-commerce company used a pop-up ad campaign to propel itself into the top tier of most-visited sites for the first time, according to data released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). ...

Some weeks back, a Webvan stock certificate sold for US$500. The sale caused a minor stir, since the stock itself was worth something like 14 cents at the time. But it also led to widespread speculation that mementos of the dot-com era would soon become valuable items. ...

Web brokerage E*Trade (NYSE: ET) said Wednesday that diversification efforts helped the company report an operating profit during the third quarter, despite a steep drop in online trading. ...

In a move that underscores its desire to become a fixed-price e-tail force, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) said it is stepping up plans to absorb its Half.com subsidiary. ...

The e-commerce shakeout claimed two fresh victims Tuesday as Netcentives, an online rewards and targeted marketing firm, and HealthCentral (Nasdaq: HCEN), the parent of Vitamins.com and WebRx.com, filed for bankruptcy. ...

On the eve of its closely watched third-quarter earnings announcement, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Tuesday it has hired former publishing executive and DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) co-founder Wenda Harris Millard to head its advertising sales division. ...

Consumers returned to online travel sites during the last week of September, with many sites regaining the audiences they had before the September 11th terrorist attacks, according to a report released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT). ...

The good news out of Palo Alto, California late last week was that a technology company -- an Internet company at that -- had filed for an initial public offering. ...

To say Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has been busy striking partnerships lately would be an understatement. ...

It's been promised for a while now. The personalized Web, the one that hits you right where you live. ...