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Despite being in the grips of a regional shakeout of its own, Asian business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce is growing at a rate of 100 percent a year, according to a report released Thursday by the Boston Consulting Group. ...

News item: A startup-up Internet pure-play retailer announces it is giving away 10 bucks to every customer who shops at its site. A story from mid-1999? Guess again. This item is from a week ago. Right in the middle of 2001 ...

Hoping to head off the sharing of movies on the Internet before it reaches Napster-like proportions, seven major film studios have filed a lawsuit in California against Johnny Deep and several business partners backing the Internet file-swapping network Aimster ...

It truly is a Web. Today's e-commerce industry could not have been built without the interconnecting threads of partnerships, affiliate programs, marketing deals and other alliances. ...

Monster.com parent TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq: TMPW) said Friday it will acquire competitor HotJobs (Nasdaq: HOTJ) in a US$460 million deal that brings the top two Internet job search sites under the same roof. ...

The war to win the clicks of online travel shoppers continues to sizzle,with two major airlines touting their ability Friday to use theInternet to reach customers directly ...

The shareholders of Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) are assembling Friday. It's not likely to be a happy occasion, since a share of the company's once impressive stock can now be had for about one thin U.S. dime. ...

Drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM) became the latest e-tailer to be taken to court Wednesday, as investors filed a lawsuit that also names Amazon chief executive officer Jeff Bezos as a co-defendant. ...

A group of e-commerce trade associations and Internet companies -- including auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and mega-travel site Orbitz -- launched a new coalition called NetChoice on Wednesday, with support from U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) and U.S. Representative Jerry Weller (R-Illinois). ...

The online auction world shrugged its collective shoulders when two of the biggest competitors of Internet auction powerhouse eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), Yahoo! Auctions and uBid, announced that they had made a deal to share listings. ...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) said Tuesday it had struck a partnership designed to beef up its ability to stream audio, video and game clips as a way of improving the shopping experience for its customers. ...

E-commerce firms, among others, have yet to grasp the full value of Internet advertising because many do not recognize the overall impact that online branding can have, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). ...

A capital infusion of more than US$21 million landed by GiftCertificates.com might be a sign that the venture capital market for e-commerce is thawing slightly, but analysts say funding levels are likely to remain sluggish for the foreseeable future. ...

The search for positive signs in the online grocery world has usually required a keen eye. Now it only requires a glance across the Atlantic to the UK. ...

Looking to narrow the gap between television and e-commerce, Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Thursday it is expanding its relationship with ValueVision International (Nasdaq: VVTV), the third-largest home shopping network. ...

The era of e-business profitability has begun, but the gap between the most and least successful Internet companies is still growing, according to a study released Tuesday by McKinsey & Company. ...

The worlds of e-commerce and online advertising are going through a bit of a phase, it seems. ...

Further beefing up its offerings as it squares off against Orbitz and other online travel competitors, Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) said Tuesday it has made a deal to offer last-minute travel packages. ...

Software e-tailer Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) said Monday it will conduct a reverse stock split designed to boost the profile of its lagging stock, keep it trading on the Nasdaq exchange and help the company raise additional cash in the future. ...

At Amazon.com, the link to the privacy policy is at the bottom of the homepage, in small print. At Buy.com, the policy measures 10 printed pages and5,200 words in length. To read the full policy at Outpost.com, visitorshave to click out and back into the policy page at least twice ...