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Bigger. Flashier. More intrusive. The advertising industry is willing to try anything and everything to get people to pay more attention to their Internet advertising Here's another idea: Start with some interesting advertisements. That might do more than all the multimedia, interstitial and skyscraper ads combined to get the Web advertising indust...
The back-to-school shopping season might not be the biggest quake on the e-commerce Richter scale -- holiday gift-giving tends to rock the e-tail world more Even so, the return to the classroom provides a welcome excuse for e-tailers to convince consumers to shake off the summer doldrums and start spending again.
As the expiration date for a rival takeover bid from PC Connection (Nasdaq: PCCC) approaches, Fry's Electronics is back in the running to acquire struggling e-tailer Outpost.com (Nasdaq: COOL), Fry's disclosed Wednesday. According to a filing by Fry's with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), buyout talks with Outpost resumed earlier...
Traffic to Internet-only banks is decreasing, while multichannel financial institutions have watched their online activity double over the past year, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). The number of visitors at the Web sites of banks that also have a brick-and-mortar presence increased 110 percent duri...
An online transaction seems simple enough. You send your credit card information: they send you stuff But increasingly, the company that takes your credit card information is not the one that sends you the goods. And still a different firm might answer the phone when you call to find out why your stuff doesn't work....
The controversial buyback of the Staples.com e-commerce unit by parent company Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) cleared its final hurdle Monday, when shareholders gave the deal their blessing. Shareholders who bought into the Staples.com tracking stock will get a handsome return on their investment. While the shares originally sold for US$3.25, Staples is b...
A one-day airfare sale helped increase sales more than 70 percent at Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY), the travel site said Monday. Data released by the site and e-commerce infrastructure provider comScore Networks found that while the fare discounts on American Airlines (NYSE: AMR) tickets led to a 19 percent drop in prices, it also prompted a 71 p...
The bad news for more than 40,000 dot-com workers came when their employers told them they were no longer needed. For some, the worse news might be the reception they get on the job market -- or the adjustment in expectations and work habits they have to make in order to find new employment.
Buy.com said Thursday that its credit card processor has reversed an earlier decision to terminate the company's contract, after the e-tailer's founder agreed to provide Buy.com with an additional cash infusion. The threat of termination, which Buy.com revealed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this week, c...
Well, Napster seemed like a good idea at the time. And shortly after Bertelsmann announced it was forming a strategic alliance with Napster (*correction), it seemed like a great idea. Napster usage rocketed through the roof, as people who had never downloaded music before were burning CDs as if free copyrighted music were going out of style.
For the second time this month, Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and American Airlines (NYSE: AMR) launched a one-day online airfare sale Thursday, a move likely to trigger another short-term Internet price battle. The sale, announced at the stroke of midnight by the three participants, came with no advance warning or promotio...
Kill your darlings. The eminent southern writer William Faulkner had that advice for writers. Wiping out your favorite turn of phrase, he believed,was a guaranteed recipe for stronger prose Needless to say, there has been plenty of darling-killing going on in the e-commerce world, as e-tailers that once blew raspberries in the face of centuries-old...
Following in the footsteps of other brick-and-click retailers, Kmart (NYSE: KM) said Tuesday that it will outsource operation of its BlueLight.com e-commerce site. Kmart said it struck an agreement to hand over the task of running BlueLight.com to Global Sports (Nasdaq: GSPT), an e-commerce service provider that has focused on running sites for co...
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) said Monday it has reached a deal with electronics retailer Circuit City (NYSE: CC) that will give customers the option of picking up purchases in about 600 stores nationwide rather than paying shipping fees. The multiyear agreement calls for Amazon to receive a percentage of the revenue for all Circuit City electronics m...
Royal Ahold (NYSE: AHO) said Friday it has settled a lawsuit with shareholders of Peapod (Nasdaq: PPOD), clearingthe way for a planned buyout of the online grocer. The settlement, which still must be approved by a judge, makes it possible forAhold to move ahead with its planned purchaseof all outstanding Peapod shares.
With the equivalent of 112 million wire-access lines in place, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has a lot of marketing to do For example, to help spread word of its arrival -- the result of last year's merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE -- Verizon turned to the Web and the rich media capabilities it offers. Using streaming audio ads, it introduced surfers to ...
Internet retailer Buy.com (OTC: BUYX) said Tuesday it has cut 50 workers -- approximately 40 percent of its total workforce -- as it reported sharply lower sales figures for the second quarter of 2001. Buy.com said the layoffs took place Monday from its Aliso Viejo, California headquarters. The latest job cuts come on top of the firing of 125 work...
There is a fine line between optimism and blind faith. I know. I am a Boston Red Sox fan and even though the First World War was still raging when they last won the World Series, I believe every spring that this year will be the year. There are apparently some in e-commerce with the same kind of eternally sunny outlook. Some might call it an inabi...
Internet powerhouse eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and media giant AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) struck an expanded marketing agreement that more closely links two ofthe most powerful brands on the Web, and stretches into television and print media. Under the deal, San Jose, California-based eBay will advertise across AOL Time Warner's sprawling media empire, ...
UK grocer J. Sainsbury said Friday it has killed an ambitious plan to merge the Internet and television into a single vehicle for advertising and e-commerce after less than a year of operation. Citing weak advertising and e-commerce revenues from the project, Sainsbury said Friday that it would end its agreement with Carlton Communications to crea...
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