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The company said it will sell its remaining assets and use the proceeds, along with existing cash, to pay creditors. Streamline.com also said it will provide severance to employees and retain a small staff to oversee its asset sale and shutter its operations. Streamline.com b...

Slated to launch in early 2001, the new company will assemble in Tokyo in December with a staff of 50 consultants ...

In addition, the company said it will educate its Internet abuse staffers to ensure they are "better attuned to the ploys used by marketers" to evade the terms of the abuse policy. ...

In a continuing bid to trim its operating costs, Priceline said last week that it had cut 87 of its 535 employees. Keller -- who joined Priceline in 1999 after serving as an auto analyst at investment research firm ING Barings Furman Selz -- was reportedly asked to lay off half of her 23-person staff as part of the restructuring at the Norwalk, Connecticut-based company.

Other online pet suppliers are also feeling the squeeze. Last week, rival Petopia.com laid off more than half its staff to trim costs ...

In all, 32 of the 200 workers at Butterfields lost their jobs. This staff reduction represents the second round of layoffs at Butterfields this year; 14 workers were cut in July when eBay scaled back a previously announced expansion plan and curtailed operations in Chicago, Illinois and New York City.

Kforce.com (Nasdaq: KFRC) was up 7/32 at 5 early Monday after the Web-based staffing firm said it plans to buy back up to 10 million common shares, or 23.7 percent of the total outstanding. Kforce shares are down from a 52-week high of 18 1/4 Kforce said it will begin a tender...

Stamps.com said it expects the recent cost-cutting measures, including a 40 percent reduction in staff, to save about $30 million per year, and to reduce quarterly cash burn. The company said it will slash its current expectations for sales and marketing spending by "half or ...

"Amazon.com reviewed the accounting for the transactions with its auditors and the SEC staff," the company said, "and believes that the accounting treatment, and disclosures, were appropriate. Amazon.com will continue to cooperate with the SEC staff if they have further questions." ...

Online pharmacy Drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM) has laid off 60 employees, about 10 percent of its total staff, as part of a plan to reduce operating expenses The cutbacks came just ahead of earnings news released Monday, which revealed that sales for the quarter ended October 1s...

"This is an issue we're all grappling with," Deborah Pierce, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times. "Public records are the hallmark of an open government. It's beyond an authority issue. Maybe we need to redefine exactly what a public record is." ...

Vocal ICANN critic Karl Auerbach, a Cisco Systems engineer, won the North American seat. Auerbach, who ran an anti-ICANN campaign, said one of his first acts will be to familiarize himself with confidential ICANN records. He has argued against ICANN's growing global influence and has called for the dismissal of several senior staff members.

The company also set out to become an international e-commerce concern overnight, setting up customer service centers staffed with multi-lingual employees and offering free worldwide shipping and returns. By spring of this year, however, Boo.com's founders were having trouble...

It would be logical for them to turn to the West, where the businesses with the most experience, technology and trained staff are concentrated. That makes China's rule that all outside investments must be approved by government officials especially stifling. It has only been ...

Garden.com is not alone in handing out pink slips. Earlier this week, MTVi announced that it was laying-off one-fourth of its staff, or 105 people. Also this week, Internet services company Xpedior, Inc. said that it is cutting about 16 percent of its employees, or 270 people.

For those young geniuses who spent the summer in their parents' garage, homing in on the next best high-tech thing since the semiconductor or Napster, the message may be tough to stomach: find a seasoned management staff or get a job. The "stereotypical" profile of a Jerry Yang or Shawn Fanning remains, as it has always been, an exception to the rule, even in the pre-shakeout days.

The SEC said it filed the civil action after 1stBuy failed to take appropriate action in response to problems that SEC staffers pointed out in December 1999. The SEC said it has observed a number of pitches for securities offerings made over the Internet or by Internet compan...

The first order came within 20 minutes of the broadcast and 100 more followed during the next 24 hours. It didn't come as a total surprise to Lemire, who has long believed in the power of the media. (When his company was young, he and his staff sent out 100 press releases each and every Thursday, knowing that even a few tiny articles would generate orders and help to build a customer base.) ...

E-tail giant Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) announced late Thursday that it will be moving approximately 20 percent of its staff from Silicon Valley to Vancouver, Washington over the next several months The Menlo Park, California-based company said the move is part of a plan to re...

The defendants allegedly diverted money received from investors for personal use. The SEC said it has traced more than $3.4 million directly to the "LCP principals or other entities that they control." The suit also claims that "none of the banking or financial transactions reviewed by the staff reflect any indicia of legitimate business activity." ...