Michael Pastore

Many retailer's online operations are proving to be surprisingly effective, according to research by Shop.org and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and an

A survey of more than 14,000 Internet users by the National Regulatory Research Institute and BIGresearch found that almost half (47 percent) of the

Research that predicts Internet use and e-commerce will move away from the PC and onto mobile or television-based platforms is nothing new. But with all

As the shaky U.S. economy heads into the all-important holiday shopping season, Jupiter Media Metrix is the latest Web measurement firm to find

It doesn't make much sense that the day after Thanksgiving would signal the start of the online holiday shopping season, but consumers conditioned to shop

This much we know: it's been an emotional and unsettling autumn, and that has not been good for economy. But how that will influence holiday spending, and

The number of U.S. households subscribing to online services declined nearly 4 percent during the third quarter of 2001, according to a report from

A significant increase in the number shoppers at toy sites during the week ending Nov. 11 has led analysts to declare that week the beginning of the

Flying in the face of research that has predicted a prosperous holiday season for online retailers, a study by Odyssey has found online consumers becoming

Online retail and travel sales from the 2001 holiday season will reach approximately $11.9 billion, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. That would

More than 106 million people will shop online in December, and they will spend a record $9.9 billion during the holiday season, an increase over last

Overall business IT spending is expected to fall more than 12 percent from 2000 estimates, according to Cahners In-Stat. It would be the first such