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Contrary to speculation immediately following the September 11th terrorist attacks, fear of further violence is not keeping American shoppers out of stores, according to a survey released Monday by Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings That spells more bad news for e-tailers, who already have to contend with a general slump in c...
Having long focused on the potential of a high-performance Internet, Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) now also relies on the Web to gain traction among customers and ramp up its brand visibility. The company is developing marketing content that highlights its initiatives, including Internet protocol technologies and m-commerce services....
They say never to kick someone when he's down. But there are exceptions to every rule. So, even though Egghead.com is down, way down -- all the way down, in fact, it deserves a good swift kick in the yolk. Egghead is no more. It shut down on October 25th, breaking its own promise to stay in operation despite having filed for bankruptcy. The haples...
The parent company of online job search giant Monster.com said that its third-quarter profits rose 20 percent over a year before, due largely to Monster's continued growth and profitability. Monster itself had third quarter revenues of US$174 million, a 38 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to the earnings report released ...
In Part 2 of this special report, the E-Commerce Times continues to examine why an increase in taxation of online sales is all but inevitable To return to Part 1, click here....
Death and taxes. The former is not inevitable in e-commerce, although many online retail sites have met that fate in the past year or two. However, many experts say that taxes on e-commerce are indeed inevitable, as Internet shopping continues to gain in popularity and cash-strapped states look to recoup lost revenue Despite concerns from federal o...
Spurred by the spate of recent anthrax scares, U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to electronic billing and payment channels to allay mail safety concerns -- with roughly 32 million Americans expected to view credit card and other statements online by the end of 2001 -- according to data released Monday by Gartner (NYSE: IT) The Stamford, Conn...
Credit card advertising has nearly doubled its presence on the Web this year, research firm Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) said Monday. "It's understandable that the significant growth of online advertising for credit services coincides with a softening economy and the approach of the holiday shopping season," said Charles Buchwalter, vice pr...
A word of advice to small U.S. e-tailers: what works for EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) might not work for you In a characteristic trend-bucking move, EBay recently added Singapore to its roster of international trading sites....
Name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) reported third-quarter results Thursday that came in just above expectations, which had been lowered to reflect a falloff in travel after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States The Norwalk, Connecticut-based online travel company also predicted it will break even, before charg...
Name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) reported third-quarter results Thursday that came in just above expectations, which had been lowered to reflect a falloff in travel after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States The Norwalk, Connecticut-based online travel company also predicted it will break even, before charg...
Name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) reported third-quarter results Thursday that came in just above expectations, which had been lowered to reflect a falloff in travel after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States The Norwalk, Connecticut-based online travel company also predicted it will break even, before charg...
Getting teenagers to buy online should be a snap, right? After all, they have the time, the Web know-how, the disposable income, and a seemingly inexhaustible hunger to consume new products and services Instead, many companies are beginning to throw in the towel when it comes to getting adolescents to make a purchase online. The reasons are many, b...
Much of the buzz around office water coolers lately has to do with the government's new powers to follow our every move on the Internet. When couched in language that makes it appear that such surveillance might help prevent further terrorist attacks on the U.S., many Americans are willing to forgo or compromise certain civil liberties. After all,...
Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS), the dominant Web real estate player, on Thursday reported a third-quarter financial loss double the estimates of analysts, due largely to a plunge in advertising revenue Homestore stock fell 54.3 percent Friday to US$2.28 per share in the wake of the news, which also included a dour forecast from the company for the fo...
Internet job losses climbed more than 60 percent in October to 4,840 after five straight months of decline, according to a report released Wednesday by Challenger, Gray and Christmas (CGC). The main culprits behind the spike in layoffs were online travel companies -- some of which moved to pare staff as demand plummeted following the September 11t...
It's been three months since Webvan delivered its last order. But still the dead dot-com keeps haunting e-commerce, even as its casket is lowered into the ground. The latest chapter in the Webvan haunting is the two-day going, going, gone auction of what's left of its headquarters. Even though it's been broken up into tiny pieces, what used to be ...
Discount online travel company Hotwire said Wednesday that sales and daily transactions have returned to the levels seen before the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States Almost 1 million new users have registered with the year-old site since September 11th, "demonstrating the company's continued growth despite turbulent times," Hotw...
It's one of the oldest forms of communication, but word-of-mouth remains a potent marketing force in the digital age. E-commerce experts say that pass-it-along marketing -- also known as viral marketing -- is a highly effective way to create online buzz for new products and services Analysts told the E-Commerce Times that businesses are using a num...
The Internet, once considered to be populated predominantly by men, is in reality an equal opportunity channel This year, for example, Nielsen//NetRatings reaffirmed other studies which have reported that more than half of North American Internet users are women. While the female online population has been steadily growing, according to NetRatings,...
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