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The market for online music is not doing as well as analysts atJupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) hadthought six months ago, said the firm, which on Tuesday lowered its outlookfor the industry. Reasons for the downward revision included a weak economy and delayed launches of new subscription products....
Web users do not get loaded down with packages when they go from site to site, but they do lug some baggage in the form of passwords. Commerce and content sites increasingly ask visitors to log in with a password, taxing the memories of those who frequent multiple sites Unless they use the same password at all sites -- which is not always possible ...
Looking to drum up new sources of online advertising revenue, powerhouseportal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announcedMonday that it has stuck a deal with ArnoldMPG to develop new Internet marketing campaigns for the media buying andplanning agency's clients As part of what the deal, Arnold MPG has agreed to purchase mediaand promotional programs on Yahoo'...
A California bankrutpcy court has cleared the way for online grocer Webvan to liquidate its remaining assets, a process that should bring closure to the high-profile dot-com failure Webvan did not reveal specific details, but said Friday that the plan, which will take effect on Tuesday, will enable it to pay some of its unsecured creditors.
While there is no single "gold standard" for online design, experts say there are a number of high-quality Web sites that manage to approach that ideal by excelling in the areas of functionality, style and ease of use There are few sites that manage to succeed in all three areas, analysts told the E-Commerce Times, but plenty that make their mark i...
By now, you have probably realized that Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is up to something Just this week, the company cut a deal withCigna (NYSE: CI), agreeing to build a custom portal for the health care heavyweight. Doesn't sound like the zany, business-casual Yahoo! we've grown to love, does it?...
The folks at EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) in Japan spent much of Friday denying rumors that the Japanese arms of two companies are about to merge. Seems a British newspaper reported as much, quoting a high-ranking executive at one of the firms The Japanese operations of the two companies are certainly distinct from what goes on bac...
In the early days of online commerce, e-tailers knew exactly to whom they were selling. Internet shoppers were predominantly male, middle-to-upper income and techno-savvy. So it was relatively easy for online retailers to target their product selections and marketing messages, because there was virtually no need for market segmentation. At this p...
In yet another sign that the dot-com shakeout is not over, venerable tech research firm Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR), said Thursday that it is cutting more than 20 percent of its workforce. "Last year was a challenging one for most companies, and Forrester was no exception," Forrester chairman and CEO George F. Colony said. "The difficult dec...
Sometime over the holidays, Henry Blodget packed up his box and officially left Merrill Lynch, where he had been the lead Internet stock analyst. Blodget, who some pundits have all but blamed for single-handedly causing the dot-com bubble, has left behind a life of touting Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay and others for greener pastures But he leaves behind mo...
Industry analysts say retailers can generate increased revenues from their Web operations without cannibalizing sales that would have been made in their offline stores and without having to make huge new investments. To accomplish this goal, experts tell the E-Commerce Times, e-tailers must do a better job of integrating all of their sales channel...
Further expanding its reach, this time into the employee benefits field, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Wednesday it would develop personalized Web portals for the 16 million customers of health care and retirement benefits giant Cigna (NYSE: CI). Yahoo's business services unit, known as Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions, will develop a custom portal using ...
Upping the e-commerce stakes in the competitive fast-food business, pizza chain Papa John's (Nasdaq: PZZA) said Tuesday it is making online ordering available at all its free-standing restaurants across the United States The Louisville, Kentucky-based restaurant said it is the first pizza chain in the U.S. to offer online ordering throughout its en...
We may have seen the worst of e-tailing attrition inthe last two years, but we have not seen the last ofit. Surviving online retailers still have substantialwork to do in order to reach the end of 2002 without closing up shop "The shakeout is not over," Gartner Group researchdirector Geri Spieler told the E-Commerce Times."Unless pure-play e-tailer...
AOL Time Warner (Nasdaq: AOL) late Monday lowered its earnings forecast for the quarter just ended and issued a bleak outlook for the current year. Results will include a first-quarter charge of up to US$60 billion to cover the declining value of Internet stocks since the media giant was formed last year AOL said the one-time accounting charge was ...
Amid all the bumps in the road for e-commerce in 2001, few sectors were shaken as hard as companies in the online grocery market. One-time standard-bearer Webvan, which once had the distinction of being the most highly valued privately held company, folded up shop last year, as did a handful of smaller players including HomeRuns.com, ShopLink and ...
Online shopping traffic during the 2001 holiday season rose 50 percent over 2000 levels, with more than 50 million unique visitors each week, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). About 51.3 million unique visitors clicked to shopping sites each week between the week ending November 25th and the week ending ...
The post-holiday time is always a quiet one. There is a natural letdown as the New Year begins and people quietly work their way back into their workaday routines But there is something unnaturally quiet about the past couple weeks. Yes, it's still early, and, as we learned in Florida during the last presidential election, it's better to get the nu...
Travelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) on Thursday lowered its outlook for fourth-quarter revenue, sayingairline ticket sales in December were slower than expected The Fort Worth, Texas-based online travel company said revenue for the quarterended December 31st will total about US$68 million, about 9 percent belowprevious guidance, but up from $65 million in t...
E-commerce sites that promote a sense of community among visitors by soliciting feedback and other content have a better chance at success, according to a report released Thursday by McKinsey & Co. The study, which McKinsey prepared along with Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI), found that such features as chat rooms, bulletin boards and product ...
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