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News flash: E-commerce grew fast ... in the year 2000 This pithy bit of earth-shattering news came courtesy of the U.S. government. To be more precise, it came from the U.S. Census Bureau , which is under the auspices of the Economics and Statistics Administration, which in turn is a division of the Department of Commerce....
Auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) has struck a partnership that will let it cozy up to the catalog industry, which in general has excelled at combining its traditional sales channel with the Web. EBay said it will work with Altura International, a Monterey, California-based firm that provides e-commerce solutions to catalog companies. Altura is ba...
Despite numerous legislative, consumer and technological efforts to weed it out, experts say spam e-mail continues to proliferate, sparking increasing user irritation in the process In fact, the problem has worsened in recent months. "There is now 16 times as much spam on the Internet as there was just two years ago," Gartner vice president Joyce G...
Auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) noted in its annual report that government regulators have closed an investigation into whether it engaged in anticompetitive practices in its battle with now-shuttered Bidder's Edge. eBay said the investigation, which began in 2000, has been closed without any action taken. The company also said a separate invest...
It has been a tough year for the technologysector, but Forrester sees a light at the end of the tunnel The research firm said it expects that the tech sector, propelled by arobust U.S. economic recovery, will turn around fasterthan previous projections indicated. In addition, e-commerce is expected to remain strong....
Even as online shoppers multiply and increasingly mirrormainstream consumer profiles, considerable pockets ofe-commerce abstainers remain. These neophytes, hampered by security orfulfillment concerns or inadequate Internetconnections, still rely on the Web only for productresearch To reach this untapped revenue source, e-tailers mustwork to simplif...
Canada experienced a spike in e-commerce activity in2001 and progressed measurably in other e-businessdisciplines as well, according to a report released Monday bythe CanadianE-Business Opportunities Roundtable The consortium's final report -- "Fast Forward 3.0:Maintaining the Momentum" -- showed Canada leadingNorth America in Internet connectivity...
Looking to accomplish on its own what it once hoped to do by acquiring HotJobs, Monster.com has launched its first local job site aimed at hourly workers The site initially is focusing on the metropolitan region around Cincinnati, Ohio. Monster said more locally focused JobMatch.com sites will be rolled out but did not put a timeframe on the expans...
Small-business entrepreneurs looking to make a splash on the Web need not drown in massive site construction costs. According to experts, there are many ways to keep the tab low. And if site builders are willing to start out with a no-frills approach, they can keep costs below US$1,000 "If you're looking to build a site for under $1,000, you're not...
Riddle time: What do Girl Scout cookies, snow blower parts and a US$2 million waterfront home have in common? Give up? Recently, all have been the focus of flailing attempts at e-mail-based e-commerce. And only one was successful....
While Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMSE) tries to move on from its accounting woes, which led to the restatement of millions of dollars worth of income over a two-year period, at least one of its online partners is now sharing the company's pain. L90 Inc. (Nasdaq: LNTY), an online marketing firm, was slapped with a lawsuit Thursday that charged the com...
In its infancy, e-commerce disappointed merchants and investors who staked millions on the notion that it would somehow change the world forever. But e-commerce has grown up, and experts say it is making solid contributions to society even if the hype has faded Instead of eliciting wows -- mostly on the part of its promoters -- analysts told the E-...
Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is reporting that its sales rose 25 percent during a three-day discount promotion last week According to the portal giant, its partner retailers saw an average jump in gross sales of about 70 percent.
"You can't be serious!" The trademark quip of tennistantrum artist John McEnroe leapt from my lips uponfirst hearing of travel Goliath Sabre's (NYSE: TSG) plan to buy outTravelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) Already a 70 percent stakeholder in the 5-year-oldtravel site, Sabre launched its official offer ofUS$23 per remaining share on March 5th.
Under fire from privacy advocates, EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY)has changed a new privacy policy that wasscheduled to go into effect Tuesday for new users and on April 19th for registered users The policy, posted on the site last month,told users that it was intended to be the lastword on EBay's practices, despite what the company mightsay on other parts of ...
Nine months after the launch of controversial, airline-backed travel site Orbitz, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking more information in an ongoing probe of the company's practices. The DOT has requested additional information from airlines, Orbitz and other travel companies about the site's business practices....
Driven by demanding investors and an unforgivingstock market, many e-commerce firms have clawed their way toprofitability In fact, with a growing roster of companies operatingin the black, we may be perched on the cusp of ane-commerce "golden age," according to analysts....
After much posturing, Travelocity(Nasdaq: TVLY) agreed to be puchased by Sabre Holdings (NYSE: TSG) after all. Sabre on Monday upped its buyout offerto US$28 per share, increasing the value of the deal to about$420 million. The company's original offer, made last month, was for $23 per share, or about $345 million A special committee formed to cons...
European e-commerce is poised to grow by nearly 50 percent this year but will still account for just 2 percent of all sales across the continent, according to a report from GartnerG2. The research firm said that online commerce will account for about 97.8 billion euros, or about US$86 billion, in 2002, compared with 66 billion euros, or $57 billio...
It is common knowledge that heavy, bulk items with high shipping costs (for example, pet food) are at a major disadvantage when it comes to online selling. The items that have sold best online (such as books and music) can be sold in large quantities and at low prices, and can be described to consumers with simple precision and accuracy. But these...
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