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DVD rental site Netflix.com is hoping a rejuvenated stock market can breathe life back into its long-shelved initial public offering. Netflix filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to raise up to US$115 million through the offering. No date has been set.
By now, things should be clearer. The shakeout should have left e-commerce neater and more orderly. A variety of companies should occupy various sectors, each with its own distinct reason for being, its own niche, its own special appeal to consumers. But that hasn't happened. Despite all the upheaval that has taken place to date, it has not gotten...
Just over a year ago, business-to-business (B2B) e-commercewas all the rage. So, what happened? According to a report released by GartnerG2, movingbusiness processes online turned out to be harderthan it seemed initially.
E-business standards consortium OASIS on Thursdayannounced it has formed a committee to specify a standard way to use XML (extensible markup language) in biometrics for e-commerce and other applications "Biometrics, in essence 'what you are,' are destinedto replace 'what you know' items such as PIN numbers,and to augment 'what you have' forms ofide...
E-tailer Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) free shipping offer is showing "pleasant" results and is helping to boost average order size, a company executive said Wednesday "We see pleasant results, though it's too early to extrapolate long-term," Diego Piacentini, director of worldwide retail and marketing atAmazon, said during a conference call.
If e-commerce were a mad dash to the finish line, pure-plays would have taken the gold medal, according to analysts. But it has turned into a marathon -- and as dot-com startups gasp for breath, traditional retailers, many of which stumbled out of the gate, are steadily passing pure-plays like the tortoise that whipped the hare. And many analysts ...
Travel giant SabreHoldings Corporation (NYSE: TSG) Tuesday announcedthat it has commenced a cash tender offer for alloutstanding common shares of Travelocity.com(Nasdaq: TVLY). Texas-based Sabre currently ownsnearly 70 percent of the online travel site Sabre is offering US$23 per share to acquire thebalance of Travelocity common stock -- about 15mi...
It shouldn't surprise me anymore, but I'm still shocked whenever I run across an e-commerce naysayer. You know them. These are people who wonder how long it will be until Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) folds and who still use words like "fad" to describe business-to-consumer e-commerce.
EBay continues to stand out as one of the few clear-cut successes in the online world The auction giant has been consistently profitable at a time when other Internet companies are languishing in the red or closing down altogether....
The online shopping population in the United Stateswill double from 66 million to 132 million by 2006,according to a new report released by Jupiter Media Metrix(Nasdaq: JMXI) "It's easy to assume that because online sales growthhas begun to decelerate, the online population must bestabilizing. In fact, this is not the case," thereport said....
Grocery chain Albertson's (NYSE: ABS) on Monday said it will offer its online shopping service in Portland, Oregon, setting up a head-to-head battle with fellow brick-and-mortar grocer Safeway (NYSE: SWY), which began service there in mid-January. The unlikely turf battle portends a larger war for dominance of home grocery shopping along the entir...
Many lessons can be learned from the merchants that hawk the best-selling products in e-commerce. Among other things, experts said, top sellers offer goods with few surprises that are easy to ship; they successfully separate the product from the buying process; and they offer extensive resources that allow comparison shopping across multiple channels...
More than US$700 million in online sales was lost tofraud in 2001, according to a report released Mondayby GartnerG2 Last year's online fraud losses represented 1.14 percent of total annual online sales of $61.8 billion, the report stated. Those losses were 19 times higher than fraud losses resulting from offline sales....
Dot-com job losses dipped below 1,000 in February, falling to their lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC) The Chicago-based outplacement firm said 670 dot-com positions were eliminated last month, down sharply from the 1,802 layoffs announced in January....
E-tailers often live or die by their shippingprocesses. The "last mile" to consumers' doorsteps isarguably the most critical phase of online commerce.For a long time, e-tailers faced one shipping hurdle after another -- and often fell flat on their faces While many companies recently have mended egregiousdeficiencies in their shipping operations, r...
Any lingering doubt that we have graduated fromE-Tailing 101 has dissolved over the past few months. In the real-world laboratories of E-Tailing 303, the freeshipping experiment marches on. Most recently,Buy.com announced it willwaive shipping charges on orders over US$99 that weigh less than 20 pounds....
NetGrocer, an online food delivery service that focuses on shipping packaged goods, has struck a deal with supermarket chain Stop & Shop to test in-store kiosks for its Web service. The kiosks, billed as the "endless aisle," will feature items not typically found on grocery store shelves, NetGrocer president and CEO Lisa Kent told the E-Commerce T...
With the holidays over, Internet users worldwidedid more surfing than shopping in January, accordingto a new report from NetRatings(Nasdaq: NTRT), which measured at-home Web use in 29countries In fact, Internet use skyrocketed in January, with peoplespending more time online, viewing more pages andlogging on more often than they did in December, th...
Talk to just about anyone in the online auction business who isn't EBay and before long the conversation will degenerate into a David versus Goliath metaphor. UBid, BargainandHaggle.com and BidBay -- I mean, AuctionDiner -- all share the same raison d'etre: to battle EBay.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it has settled cases against two Web sites accused of fraudulently selling treatments and tests for anthrax in the wake of last fall's terrorist attacks. The FTC said it reached the settlement agreements within days of filing formal complaints against Vital Living Products and Rawhealth.net. The settlem...
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