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Yahoo! has expanded and extended a strategic alliance with Travelocity and parent company Sabre Holdings that will give Travelocity exclusive billing on the portal giant's Web site. Building on an existing relationship that dates back to 1997, the new deal also calls for Yahoo! to provide "extensive marketing services" to Sabre. Sabre will use Yah...
Less than a month after Napster said it would sell its assets to Bertelsmann in a deal worth US$8 million, the online music swapping service has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. Napster's bankruptcy comes as no surprise; the company had assets of $7.9 million and liabilities of more than $101 million. But...
The notebook war is heating up as mobile computers continue to steal market share from desktop machines. And in the latest chapter of the ongoing battle for notebook supremacy, Toshiba has toppled Dell in the worldwide market Toshiba's global market notebook sales rose 19.3 percent in the first quarter of the year, according to research firm IDC. D...
The German government has decided to move its federal, state and local agency IT systemsto Linux, citing reliability issues and a desire to reduce its dependence onMicrosoft Toward this goal, the country has signed an agreement withIBM, which will providerelated hardware, software and services to the German government....
USA Interactive has announced it will launch simultaneous buyout efforts that could give it full ownership of three major e-commerce players: Expedia, Ticketmaster and Hotels.com. In total, the deals could be worth US$4.5 billion. Each deal would involve an exchange of stock. USA said the takeover attempts should not be considered hostile, and the...
When you think of successful e-commerce startups, Amazon.com, Yahoo! and eBay no doubtcome to mind. But these online giants have long since moved past the startup phase Which companies are the new "rising startups" of e-commerce? A new breed of online retailer is making noise in a growing market with strategies that leverage the fundamental benefit...
In a move to spur members of its affiliate program to sell more used goods, Amazon.com has begun paying affiliate Web sites a 2.5 percent referral fee on the sale of used items "Our used offerings have become incredibly popular with buyers," Amazon spokesperson Patty Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "We wanted to allow associate sites to earn refer...
Despite concerns about privacy and fraud, recent U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) figures seem to confirm that consumers have gotten in the swing of shopping online, and the e-commerce cash register seems set to ring even more often in the future. Based on a survey of 11,000 retailers, the DOC reported that U.S. online retail sales dropped 11.9 p...
With surgical precision, IBM has sliced 2,000 jobs from its Global Services unit as it struggles to bring its financials more in line with forecasts While cuts in the division were expected, the number was much higher than originally thought, particularly considering that Global Services has performed well for Big Blue.
While the worst of times may be over for companies in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce, the sector remains unsteady and is likely to see more consolidation and survival-oriented alliances. Some struggling companies still may fall by the wayside. "I don't think the shakeout is over," Forrester research director Laurie Orlov told the E-Commerce...
IBM on Wednesday announced a five-year, US$194 million agreement to provide electronic payments processor TSYS with hardware, software and other services The agreement extends a technology relationship between the two industry giants that spans 20 years, according to TSYS spokesperson Eric Bruner. This is the largest deal in the Columbus, Georgia-b...
Early in 2001, Epinions.com faced the same choice as scores of other dot-coms: Adapt or die. While the shopping information site, founded in 1999 by former Yahoo, Excite and Netscape executives and funded by some of the best-known investors in Silicon Valley, had attracted millions of repeat users, it was wholly dependent on advertising revenue. I...
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has taken aim at the growing amount of spam plaguing New York consumers by filing suit against online marketing company MonsterHut and two of its executives "Every day, New Yorkers are being inundated with unsolicited commercial e-mails, or spam," Spitzer said. He called a portion of the spam "a vehicle for f...
Last week The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) targeted another file-sharing service, Audiogalaxy, with its copyright protection campaign. The association filed a lawsuit against the Internet company, alleging that it encouraged users to copy and distribute copyrighted works, and that its filtering efforts were minimal....
Amazon.com is testing two new features -- catalog merchant pages and restaurant listings -- in an effort to generate additional revenue and drive more traffic to its Web site The services, introduced last week, give catalog companies and restaurateurs a chance to catch the eyes of Amazon's more than 29 million customers, according to company spokes...
Fingerhut's online operations are silent. The catalog company's site, which withered away slowly and painfully before finally dying, now features a farewell and good luck message instead of selling products Unlike other dot-com crashes, the Fingerhut failure is more than a blip on the radar screen. It represents a warning to those who would dive re...
Sun Microsystems recently confirmed that it expects to return to profitability in the second quarter, despite a slight drop-off in orders from the previous quarter On April 18th, Sun executives predicted a slight increase in revenue, gross margins and overall operating expenses -- and the company stood firmly behind those expectations in its intra-...
Open source technology is cheap to use, comes with few frills -- and has yet to gain the popularity enjoyed by proprietary products from giants like Microsoft. Nevertheless, many companies are taking advantage of open source offerings' flexibility and low cost for use in e-business operations....
A recent study has found that online advertising is holding its own compared with traditional advertising revenue. And analysts expect the current steady state to give way to growth as soon as economic news improves Online ad revenue in the United States declined 7.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to a study released Thursday by P...
Since launching its European auction site, Yahoo! has continually trailed far behind eBay. Rather than simply conceding to the competition, the company found a more lucrative strategy: It teamed up with its rival Under the terms of a multiyear agreement, eBay and Yahoo! Europe will pool their marketing resources to advertise eBay's sites via extens...
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