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It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is the latest to dye its hair the same color as all the others. On Tuesday, the Internet portal unveiled a plan to integrate used items, closeout ...
It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is the latest to dye its hair the same color as all the others. On Tuesday, the Internet portal unveiled a plan to integrate used items, closeout ...
It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, there are a lot of wet kisses being blown back and forth between the largest and best-known e-commerce companies. Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is the latest to dye its hair the same color as all the others. On Tuesday, the Internet portal unveiled a plan to integrate used items, closeout ...
High-tech and e-business companies have rebounded nicely from the sales slowdown that followed the September 11th attacks on the United States, and the bigger, more diversified e-tailers should be able to meet third-quarter earnings targets, analysts say First Call predicts that consumer Internet company earnings will be 37 percentbetter than they ...
Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) said late Monday it will cut about 1,300 of its 2,800 jobs as it spins off some operations The Pleasanton, California-based company, which makes e-commerce software and operates online purchasing exchanges, said that about 700 of the layoffs will be job eliminations primarily among professional services, marketing, sales...
By now, observers of the various e-commerce markets can see which business models work online and which do not Online travel sites? Check. Online bookstores?Check. Online music? At first glance, no. But guess what? Check....
If you wanted to triple your money in three years, are there technology investments that could help you do it? Not likely, say most analysts and portfolio managers For returns like that, "go to Vegas," U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Jon Ekoniak told the E-Commerce Times.
While news sites dominated Internet use during September, one e-commerce company used a pop-up ad campaign to propel itself into the top tier of most-visited sites for the first time, according to data released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI). As they searched for the latest reports regarding the September 11th terrorist attacks on t...
Consumers are becoming more interested in paying their bills online, though the number of people who actually do so remains low, said a report releasedMonday by the Yankee Group This year, 8.7 percent of consumers surveyed paid their bills over the Internet, up from 5.1 percent in 2000, Yankee said.
When money is being exchanged, chances are that somebody sometime is going to cheat. Unfortunately, that's the case whether the money is being spent for products, services or philanthropic causes The process of exchanging money electronically is ripe for fraud, a fact that has not been lost on a number of scam artists in the weeks since September 1...
Some weeks back, a Webvan stock certificate sold for US$500. The sale caused a minor stir, since the stock itself was worth something like 14 cents at the time. But it also led to widespread speculation that mementos of the dot-com era would soon become valuable items. And right on cue, a cottage industry in the stuff of dot-coms blossomed.
Internet advertising agency DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) on Thursday reported that its revenue dropped by nearly a third and that it posted a loss for the third quarter ended September 30th, saying that corporate spending cutbacks have pinched the company's business. The company had warned that last month's terrorist attacks on the UnitedStates had ...
Most business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce technologies focus on automating the physical aspects of a company's fulfillment and order functions. However, the future success of B2B may lie in applications that hone in on the heart and soul of the Internet itself: the flow of information Instead of technology that helps companies get a product from A...
Web brokerage E*Trade (NYSE: ET) said Wednesday that diversification efforts helped the company report an operating profit during the third quarter, despite a steep drop in online trading. E*Trade chairman and chief executive officer Christos Cotsakos said the profit came despite the five-day market shutdown caused by the September 11th terrorist ...
Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) on Wednesday reported a net loss of US$24.1 million, or 4 cents per share, for the third quarter ended September 30th. However, during a conference call following the release of its earnings report, Yahoo! chairman and chief executive officer Terry Semel said that the online giant will rebound once the overall economy does...
In a move that underscores its desire to become a fixed-price e-tail force, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) said it is stepping up plans to absorb its Half.com subsidiary. While eBay has made no efforts to keep secret its plans to more closely align its original auction site and Half.com, the San Jose, California company now says it will start to fold the two...
In the midst of our national tragedy, some important due dates are likely to get lost in the shuffle. Such as October 21st, the day the current U.S. ban on new Internet taxes is scheduled to expire Those with a lot to lose or gain from how the Internet tax debate concludes are trying to make sure the deadline does not come and go without some actio...
U.S. businesses are more concerned about the impact that online security problems have on consumer confidence and trust in e-business, than about suffering an actual financial loss due to a security breach, according to a study released Wednesday by Internet measurement firm Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) Just over 12 percent of U.S. companies...
Online advertising company DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DLCK) said Thursday it has lowered the price it will pay for e-mail marketer MessageMedia (Nasdaq: MESG), which it agreed in June to acquire DoubleClick said it will issue 1 million common shares to buy MessageMedia, rather than the approximately 3 million a DoubleClick spokesperson said were initiall...
The e-commerce shakeout claimed two fresh victims Tuesday as Netcentives, an online rewards and targeted marketing firm, and HealthCentral (Nasdaq: HCEN), the parent of Vitamins.com and WebRx.com, filed for bankruptcy. San Francisco, California-based Netcentives said its Chapter 11 filing is part of a "financial restructuring." Netcentives said it...
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