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A U.S. Department ofCommerce survey has found that more than half theU.S. population is now connected to the Internet. In addition, 39 percent of Internet users are making purchases online The study was based on U.S. Census Bureaustatistics and included data gathered from more than 137,000people. It found that in September, 143 million U.S.resident...
BarnesandNoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) continued to shake up its management ranks Thursday, naming a new chief financial officer just days after it installed a permanent CEO. The moves come a week after the bookseller announced a smaller fourth-quarter loss. However, the company saw its stock price tumble on word that it may have lost market share in t...
Poor PayPal. Unlike scores of Internet companies before it, the online payment company is about to go public in a realistic market environment. Worse, the company is coming out into a market watched as closely by lawyers as it is by investors, where even the slightest hint of a first-day run-up could raise all kinds of suspicions.
They may be bitter rivals in some ways, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT),IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and a host of other tech companieshave agreed to cooperate -- at least until they can comeup with a set of open standards to ensure Web servicescompatibility The new alliance has given itself a catchy name: Web ServicesI...
The vast majority of consumers who shop on the Web want online companies to do more to verify identities on the Internet, even if it means more work for shoppers, according to a report from Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). Current systems, which rely heavily on passwords being remembered by shoppers, do not go far enough in providing adequate ...
Some online shoppers will do anything for a deal, andsome will gladly pay extra for convenience. The trickfor an e-tailer is to find a perfect balance betweenthe two I fall somewhere between the two camps, as I suspectmost online shoppers do. I have used Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) and its competitor Hotwire to get, if Imay say so, fabulous deals o...
Like the St. Louis Rams, HotJobs (Nasdaq:HOTJ), Monster.com and E*Trade (NYSE: ET)were edged out in Super Bowl XXXVI as AT&T Wireless' mLife joined the NewEngland Patriots in the winner's circle According to a survey by Jupiter Media Metrix(Nasdaq: JMXI), AT&T cashed in on its Super Bowl ad campaign topromote its new mLife wireless brand, registeri...
Like the St. Louis Rams, HotJobs (Nasdaq:HOTJ), Monster.com and E*Trade (NYSE: ET)were edged out in Super Bowl XXXVI as AT&T Wireless' mLife joined the NewEngland Patriots in the winner's circle According to a survey by Jupiter Media Metrix(Nasdaq: JMXI), AT&T cashed in on its Super Bowl ad campaign topromote its new mLife wireless brand, registeri...
Like the St. Louis Rams, HotJobs (Nasdaq:HOTJ), Monster.com and E*Trade (NYSE: ET)were edged out in Super Bowl XXXVI as AT&T Wireless' mLife joined the NewEngland Patriots in the winner's circle According to a survey by Jupiter Media Metrix(Nasdaq: JMXI), AT&T cashed in on its Super Bowl ad campaign topromote its new mLife wireless brand, registeri...
Shares of Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) hit a 52-week low Tuesday after the online real estate firm, already buffeted by an ongoing review of its accounting practices, said it will lay off 300 more workers and will spin off some assets. Although the Westlake, California-based company said the layoffs will occur during the current quarter, it did no...
Who knows, politically speaking, where the Enron mess will lead? But one thing seems certain: The way companies keep their books will get a very careful look Even with a business-friendly Republican administration in office, some form of more stringent government oversight is likely to take the place of the code of honor, secret-handshake-society s...
With online payment company PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL)set for a Thursday IPO, analysts are optimistic aboutits prospects. "The signs are there that they will continue to besuccessful," Gartneranalyst Avivah Litan told the E-Commerce Times. Litanexpects the IPO to be successful, but "not the wildkind of success we saw a few years ago."
Whether they ply e-commerce in the travel, e-tail or auction sectors, most of the firms reporting strong 2001 earnings had one thing in common: gains in overseas sales that likely can sustain growth well into the future. Underscoring the importance of worldwide growth, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), which saw an 85 percent jump in international sales ...
Amid new questions about the e-tail giant's cash position, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) CFO Warren Jenson told analysts and investors that sales will continue to grow while expenses will not, indicating that the company expects strong cash flow in the coming quarters. "Our business is fundamentally simple," Jenson said at the Goldman Sachs technology...
E-commerce has notched some notable successes when it comes to selling books(Amazon), auctioning items (EBay) and helping customers make travel plans (Travelocity and others). But numerous dot-com implosions also shone a spotlighton e-commerce ideas that did not go over quite as well With online commerce maturing and its highlights and lowlights we...
Like any trend-watcher, I tend to pick out and dwellupon defining moments. Earlier this month, asubtle turn of events occurred in the B2B e-commercearena that should have set off flashing red lights. E-business software giant SAP (NYSE: SAP) opted out of ane-procurement software licensing agreement withbeleaguered partner Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMR...
Name-your-own-price e-tailer Priceline.com(Nasdaq: PCLN) and online auction giant EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY)have inked a deal that calls for Priceline to offer itstravel booking engine on EBay. "It is similar to the deal where Amazon last year signed on Expedia and Hotwire as partners," Forrester senior analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Times....
Sex sells. Online or off, that hasn't changed. But is adult content still the biggest moneymaker on the Web? Finding solid answers is difficult. Most major market research firms do not track traffic to or sales at pornography sites. And many adult sites are controlled by holding companies that make a point of being hard to find.
No one expected all of the thousands of dot-coms that sprang up, seemingly out of nowhere, to survive. No one even expected the majority of them to survive. But how much consolidation is too much? Is the e-commerce landscape in danger of turning from a forest too thick to see through into a grove with just a few very large trees? ...
The number of dot-com job losses fell sharply in January, marking the third straight month of decline, according to a report released Wednesday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. During January, 1,802 Internet job cuts were announced -- 25 percent fewer than the 2,403 made public in December 2001.
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