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Online shoppers are like racehorses. They're on track, but they spook easily Until the terrorist attacks of September 11th, consumer concerns about security and privacy on the Internet topped nearly every analyst's list of barriers to wide-scale e-commerce. Now, with U.S. security as fragile as it has ever been, online shoppers are spooked. The thr...
File-transfer Web site MusicCity.com -- aka "Morpheus" -- is emerging as the most popular of the Napster-like sites that sprung up in the wake of the online music-swapping pioneer, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix The number of Americans using file-swapping sites like Morpheus rose by 492percent between March and Aug...
Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), which in the past has gotten questionable results from investments outside the travel sector, announced Tuesday that it plans to exercise its option for a 49 percent equity stake in an online loan service co-founded by the company In making the announcement, Priceline noted that PricelineMortgage, which appears as a ho...
It has been said that as New York City goes, so goes the country. I spent some time in New York after September 11th. The city's business community had at least temporarily shifted its focus from profit-making to recovering from the terrorist attacks. Not surprisingly, people were not spending much money....
Twenty-two-year-old chief executives are hard to find at e-commerce trade shows these days. Until the tech shakeout began in full, dot-com stardom had been the reward for many young entrepreneurs Now, launching a career at the apex of a corporation is about as rare as a dot-com going public.
On the eve of its closely watched third-quarter earnings announcement, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Tuesday it has hired former publishing executive and DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) co-founder Wenda Harris Millard to head its advertising sales division. "I firmly believe that the Internet is a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal and I am more enth...
E-commerce software maker Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) late Monday lowered its outlook for the third quarter ended September 30th, saying "poor economic conditions" led to a loss for the period Commerce One, which makes software that powers online exchanges for businesses, said it expects revenue of US$80 million to $83 million, and a loss before no...
E-tail site Shopping.com will cease to exist as a standalone site on the AltaVista network because e-commerce shopping is "no longer part of [Alta Vista's] focus," AltaVista spokesperson David Emmanuel told the E-Commerce Times on Monday. "We are focusing on search functions for consumers and businesses," Emmanuel said. "As you can see from our si...
Internet brokerage E*Trade (NYSE: ET), online realty company Homestore.com(Nasdaq: HOMS) and software company i2(Nasdaq: ITWO) were among targets that came to mind when analysts wereasked to pick their top e-commerce buyout candidates With stock prices at bargain-basement levels, these and other dot-coms like them couldmake good partners for brick-...
Consumers returned to online travel sites during the last week of September, with many sites regaining the audiences they had before the September 11th terrorist attacks, according to a report released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT). Overall traffic to travel sites for the week ending September 30th was actually higher than it was th...
Gateway (NYSE: GTW) said Thursday that its third-quarter loss will be far worse than earlier Wall Street's expectations and blamed the shortfall in part on a drop in demand following the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. The No. 4 computer maker also said it would take a charge of $100 million to $130 million in Q3, in additio...
The good news out of Palo Alto, California late last week was that a technology company -- an Internet company at that -- had filed for an initial public offering. But as PayPal knows, or will soon find out, it's one thing to file for an IPO, and another thing entirely to pull it off. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could probably wall...
Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) said Friday that it would cut 10 percent of its non-customer-service workforce and institute a hiring freeze, as well as reduce its discretionary expenditures. "Reductions in staff are difficult in any situation, and particularly difficult in this one because our entire team has rallied to support our customers durin...
To say Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has been busy striking partnerships lately would be an understatement. In barely more than a month, Amazon announced deals with Circuit City (NYSE: CC), Target (NYSE: TGT), Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE) and Hotwire.com. Those pacts came on the heels of earlier deals with Borders (NYSE: BGP) and Toys "R" Us (NYSE: TOY).
It's been promised for a while now. The personalized Web, the one that hits you right where you live. Amazon is trying it with its store-for-every-person campaign, the ultimate in customization. But I'm talking about really hitting a shopper where he or she lives. On the street where he lives. In her own neighborhood.
Bankrupt online grocer Webvan said Thursday a judge had approved the sale of many of its assets to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, which outbid Webvan's founder for ownership of the inventory-management technology platform. Kaiser, a division of health care giant Kaiser Permanente, will pay US$2.65 million for Webvan's software platform and other int...
Online real-estate companies are being hurt by a slow economy and the pullbackin consumer spending, with market leader Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) warning this week of a third-quarter loss and its competitors struggling as well Rival Homeseekers.com (OTC: HMSK), which was delisted by the Nasdaq stock market this summer, also weighed in with bad ne...
Ever wished customers would roll out the virtual red carpet for your new product announcements? Want to create excitement among vendors and consumers? A little buzz could go a long way toward selling many types of products Earlier this month, Forrester Research took a good look at the entertainment industry's online marketing efforts. After surveyi...
Despite promises to the contrary and a number of state laws making it unlawful to send unsolicited, commercial e-mail, the California Attorney General and the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DOCA), including its newly formed Office of Privacy Protection, appear to have done little to fight the crush of spam that is burdening businesses in the state...
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) have locked legal horns in a case that analysts say shows the intensity of the competition between the two e-tail giants. eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove confirmed that eBay had been sued by Amazon in connection with eBay's hiring of Christopher Zyda, who served as Amazon's international chief finan...
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