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Why does there always have to be a catch? E*Trade's (NYSE: ET) recently announced agreement to deliverstreaming financial data and trading access throughYahoo's (Nasdaq: YHOO) instant messaging (IM)technology shows refreshing promise and optimism....
In the United States, Internet-based music swapping has already had its heyday. Sure, it's still going on, pushed underground by lawsuits and enforcement actions. But never again will it enjoy the kind of glamorous prominence it enjoyed just a short while ago, when Napster was the coolest thing since eight-track tapes On the other hand, music pirat...
E-tailers may be the only businesses not betting theirlivelihoods on an imminent economic recovery Online consumer spending is predicted to increase this yearregardless of economic conditions, according to analysts....
After just over a year at the helm, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) president Rick Belluzzo has tendered hisresignation, to the surprise of many in the industry According to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Belluzzowill step down as president May 1st but willstay on staff through September "to ensure a smoothtransition."
The search engine wars are heating up, with Google joining Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and MSN as leaders in the race for control of this important Web sector, according to a report released by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT). In its February traffic data report issued Thursday, Nielsen//NetRatings said Yahoo! Search attracted more than 35 million vi...
The seeds of the trends now taking hold in e-commerce were planted in the industry's early days, long before the shakeout began, according to experts. But only now, as the dust settles, are those trends starting to point the way clearly toward the future of e-commerce. "What we have is the continuation of a lot of trends that began a while back," ...
The latest shot in the privacy regulation war has been fired, and it puts a whole new twist on the debate. Turns out that companies are collecting less data about shoppers than they used to, at least according to one group that opposes new privacy laws The idea of self-regulation has been the barrier that has successfully kept regulators at bay. An...
Just days after acknowledging that its existing Web hosting capabilities leave it vulnerable to outages, auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) has tapped a division of tech titan Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to provide additional hosting services. Ebay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that the Intel Online Services deal is part of a larg...
By year's end, more than 600 million people worldwidewill have Internet access and collectively will spend more thanUS$1 trillion online, according to research firm IDC But according to experts, regional e-commerce penetration seems to correlate closely with affluence and education....
As e-commerce and security companies continue to search for the answer to consumers' privacy concerns, Visa has announced that the Web arm of retail giant Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has signed up to use Visa's password-protection program. Walmart.com, which had a rocky Internet debut with several relaunches before finally gaining a foothold in late 2001...
Size matters a lot in the world of brick-and-mortar commerce, where the biggest retailers make the largest impact in marketing and pricing. But online commerce in many ways is a great equalizer, and experts say small players can stay in the game -- and score some niche victories -- by using the same tools and strategies available to entrenched combatants...
E-commerce service provider Digital River(Nasdaq: DRIV) said Monday that it has completed itsacquisition of assets and customer contractsrelated to Beyond.com's eStoresbusiness Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) will offload those assets inexchange for approximately US$2.9 million in DigitalRiver common stock....
E*Trade (NYSE: ET) on Monday announced it will partner with Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to provide customers with streaming financial data and access to trading through Yahoo's instant messaging technology. E*Trade also noted that it will combine its launch of Yahoo! Messenger service with expanded access to trading tools for consumers.
As the April 15th filing deadline approaches, consumers areflocking to tax sites. But according to a new reportreleased by Jupiter MediaMetrix (Nasdaq: JMXI), most visitors are doingresearch rather than filing online Online tax preparation may have gotten off to aflying start in the early days, but the growth ofonline filing has slowed to a crawl, ...
Dot-com job cuts more than doubled in March compared with February, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. A total of 1,549 job cuts were announced in March, up 231 percent from the 670 tallied in February. Still, the damage was far less severe than a year ago, when more than 9,500 cuts were made in March.
In its youth, as it struggled for acceptance, e-commerce could count on the spirited support of a handful of influential stock analysts who were credited with -- and then blamed for -- creating the tech-stock bubble. One by one, however, those cheerleaders have put away their pom-poms. Now, as e-commerce matures and tries to prove it is an industr...
Savvy television viewers don't need calendars. If a doctor on ER is on death's door, if the last single Friends hook up, if Victoria's Secret models are jumping out of airplanes, it's probably sweeps month Sweeps month, of course, sets advertising rates for the year. So networks and affiliates go all out to air blockbuster shows, introduce cliffhan...
In spite of a post-September 11th drop in online travelbookings, Jupiter MediaMetrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) expects online air, car,hotel and cruise sales will reach US$64 billion by 2007,up from $24 billion in 2001 In fact, the lagging economy is driving travel buyersto the Web in ever-increasing numbers. "A tighteconomy for the past year, coupled with th...
Economic realities forced e-commerce and the Internet to turn away from voracious growth and focus on long-term viability in 2001, creatinga slew of new challenges, according to a report released by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) "The Internet is just like any other product that goes from entry to evolution in its product cycle," T.S. Kelly, di...
E-commerce companies made a lot of mistakes in theearly days, and the same errors torpedoed hopefule-tailers over and over. The Web is haunted by the ghosts of those faileddot-coms, but at least the ones that have survived nowhave a good understanding of what not to do.
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