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Internet usage in the United States climbed to record levels in October, raising hopes for a strong holiday shopping season, two Web research firms said Tuesday. Both Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) and Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) reported record numbers of unique users surfing the Web during the month.
From corporate formation to business licensing to taxation, lawyers have a hand in nearly every aspect of a fledging e-commerce business. A small businessperson has to wear many hats and unfortunately, one of those is being a client to a lawyer or bunch of lawyers.
As one of the world's largest enterprise software suppliers, industryheavyweight Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) generates annual revenues of more than US$10 billion through its suite of e-business offerings, including database, tools and application products as well as consulting and support services Looking to augment its product line amid slowing sector-w...
Embattled e-marketer DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) is giving up ownership of its European media operations, and teaming with a German partner to run them as it shoots for profitability next year DoubleClick said Tuesday it will sell its European media business to Germany's AdLink Internet Media for 30.5 million euros (approximately US$27 million), whi...
Everybody knows there is a clog in the e-commerce IPO pipeline, but who knows which firms will step forward with an initial public offering after the clog clears? What was a torrent of offerings in 1998 and 1999 slowed to a trickle in 2000, and now has stopped completely. In recent months, only PayPal, which filed for an IPO in late September, has ...
With electronic bill payment providers looking to meet increasing consumer demand for their services, a study released Monday by The Yankee Group found that 55 percent of customers paying bills online are choosing banks to be their middleman By comparison, the report concluded that just over 10 percent of those surveyed selected their Internet serv...
Contradicting earlier findings, a study released Monday reported that U.S. consumers are not heading to online bill payment sites because of recent anthrax mail scares. The Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) study said that there has been "no noticeable increase in traffic" to the largest online billing sites since September 11th or the anthrax s...
Recently, the E-Commerce Times explored the e-business opportunities in which teenagers, despite limitations on their purchasing power, should be an e-tail target, rather than an e-tail afterthought Without doubt, marketing online to adolescents poses economic, legal and moral risks. However, with those hazards taken into account, the Internet's te...
Ask people what they think of the better-than-expected earnings report from Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO). Your informal poll may drum up more ho-hums than hoorays Analysts heralded Cisco's favorable earnings numbers as a beacon for a resurgent technology sector, and this may be true. But many former Internet and technology workers are too busy to h...
Electronics retailer Outpost.com (Nasdaq: COOL) ended its run as a publicly held company Thursday after shareholders cleared the way for Fry's Electronics to complete its acquisition of the Web-only company. Outpost shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal, worth just under US$8 million, at a meeting near the e-tailer's Kent, Connecticut, hea...
Online banking and brokerage company E*Trade (NYSE: ET) is bringing its services to the largest market in Europe, with the launch Thursday of an online investing site aimed at German consumers A July study by Jupiter Media Metrix singled out Germany as the place to be for Internet-based financial companies, saying Web sites offering online stock pu...
Business-to-business (B2B) incubator Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE) said Wednesday that it cut its losses in the third quarter, and predicted that some of its member companies will break even in 2002 For the quarter ended September 30th, ICG reported a net loss including charges of US$235 million, down from $263 million a year ago....
With all the attention that EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) has devoted to building fixed-price sales on its site, one might jump to the conclusion that the Internet auction giant has dramatically changed its mission The fact is, EBay remains first and foremost an auctioneer, according to analysts and company executives. However, the fixed-price push is helpin...
If Santa went for the same gambit as some online shoppers this year, then come Christmas, you may be the recipient of a Monopoly game that cost St. Nick a cool hundred bucks Pretty interesting, considering that most stores, offline and on, sell Monopoly for about US$15. Such is the effect that CyberRebate will likely have on the holidays this year....
E-commerce will grow "whether the economic recovery is around the corner or a couple years off," according to a study released Wednesday by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) Forrester, which surveyed approximately 9,000 online shoppers for the study, said that e-commerce will continue to thrive because most Web buyers are in high-income jobs not af...
Online shoppers have stayed away from online gift registries and wish lists, despite the best efforts of Internet retailers to spark interest in the loyalty programs, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). The study showed that 7 percent of e-shoppers have created an online registry, or list of gifts they ...
In the "real world," the opportunities for a new startup or even a small, established business to link up with some of the world's largest companies are few and far between. But on the Web, teaming up the big boys and small fry is the order of the day.
Remarkably, it has been almost two months since the terrorist attacks on the United States, and e-tailers are already having to focus on holiday sales The clear leader among online merchants still seems to be Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN). Why? Probably because its leader, eternally-smiling Jeff Bezos, seems bent on innovation for the sake of growth....
Making another bid to reverse the economic slowdown that has hammered the U.S. economy overall and tech companies in particular, the U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday cut interest rates for the 10th time this year The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said it had lowered its target for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 2 percent -- the ...
Credit card giants Visa, MasterCard and American Express (NYSE: AXP) said Tuesday that they have joined forces to form the Mobile Payment Forum. The forum will work on creating technical standards for mobile e-commerce to authenticate cardholder identities and provide a secure way for consumers to make purchases from their mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other devices.
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