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With tax rebate checks from the U.S. government beginning to arrive in consumer mailboxes, some e-tailers are hoping the extra cash will make its way to their bottom lines. According to many industry experts, however, online businesses should not head for the bank quite yet. Due to the nominal amount of the rebate checks, few analysts suggest that...
Earnest Thompson, director of corporate marketing and brand communicationsfor Siemens in the United States, recently spoke with the E-Commerce Times about the company's Internet advertising campaigns. Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), Europe's largest electronics and electrical engineering firm, has its hands in the automation, communications, lighting, medi...
Perhaps the most ironic development in the ongoing struggle of music file-sharing service Napster is that the site spawned an entire industry of digital music Because Napster has found itself more focused on litigation than on doing business, its archrivals in the recording industry have stepped up. In a matter of weeks, Napster could well be overs...
Hoping to cash in on Japan's infatuation with baseball's Seattle Mariners, Internet behemoth Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) launched the Seattle Mariners Store at its Japanese site on Tuesday Seattle, Washington-based Amazon is partnering with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the online arm for Major League Baseball (MLB), on the new store....
Although many automotive industry players are running Internet marketing campaigns meant to bring car buyers to their Web sites, approximately 48 percent of online users remain less than satisfied with the information supplied by such campaigns, according to a study released Tuesday by e-business consulting firm Accenture However, the study also fo...
Internet companies will have to wait at least another year before the advertising market rebounds, research firm Jupiter Media Metrix said Wednesday, slashing its spending forecast for 2001 by 20 percent Online ad spending will be US$5.7 billion this year, down from anearlier forecast of $7.3 billion, Jupiter said....
Looking to grab customers abandoned last month by defunct competitor HomeRuns.com, online grocer Peapod (Nasdaq: PPOD) officially announced Wednesday that it would expand its service to new areas in and around Washington, D.C. Peapod spokeswoman Paula Wheeler told the E-Commerce Times that while the two companies only overlapped in a few areas, Pe...
Job search Web site Monster.com helped parent company TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq: TMPW) beat analyst estimates in the secondquarter, as a weak economy resulted in more job changes, TMP Worldwide said Tuesday The New York City-based staffing and advertising company reported income adjusted for special items of US$36.1 million, or 32 cents per share, up f...
Online industrial auction specialist DoveBid said Tuesday it has acquired the capital asset disposition firm TradeOut as part of an aggressive effort to expand DoveBid's business-to-business (B2B) offerings. The TradeOut purchase is DoveBid's 15th acquisition in the past two years "Clearly, there are a lot of B2B e-commerce business models that nev...
Memorandum to executives at Barnes and Noble: If you want to stay in the online bookselling business, it is time to play another game. That game is follow the leader, and if you want, the position of leader is still available to you....
Sixty-four percent of online advertisers will pay more money for placements they view as premium inventory, according to a study released Tuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) at its sixth annual Online Advertising Forum The study found that 58 percent of media buyers were willing to pay more for premium space and 6 percent are very willin...
Ebay on Tuesday said it had acquired HomesDirect, an online auctioneer of foreclosed properties Ebay, which did not disclose the purchase price, said the acquisition would "significantly expand" its real-estate category. HomesDirect was responsible for the sales of more than 116,000 homes last year, all auctioned over the Internet, according to eBa...
Travel e-tailer Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) officially launched a speech-driven customer service application Monday that will allow customers to review existing travel plans over the phone, the company said. Forrester Research senior analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Times that this innovation in customer service typifies a trend in ...
Around this time last summer, my mother made her Christmas shopping list. It's a tradition for her to start early. The general idea is to avoid the crowds, traffic and general madness of seasonal shopping I suggested she shop online. I gave her the usual litany of benefits -- she could shop from the sofa, avoid the lines, be done in an evening or t...
E-commerce is suffering from a severe case of nearsightedness As a result of their strenuous efforts to survive in a volatile economy, e-tailers are only able to see what's right in front of them. It's not easy being the novelty act when even the headliners are in a slump.
Internet trend-watcher Jupiter Media Metrix on Monday lowered its short-term outlook for the e-commerce sector, saying such factors as lack of capital and weak consumer spending are continuing to hurt the industry At the same time, the report emphasized the long-term staying power of the Internet.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced voluntary guidelines for advertisers using larger banner ads, pop-ups, and other forms of rich media advertising Monday The IAB said the new guidelines would help marketers leverage the unique marketing characteristics of the Internet while keeping their costs in line....
Blaming a sagging market for online advertising, Theglobe.com, which staged one of the first blockbuster initial public offerings of the Internet era, said Friday it would shutter its main site, lay off half its workers and seek a buyer The New York City-based company said it would close Theglobe.com effective August 15th, as well as WebJump, which...
Although 38 percent of European businesses use the Internet to buy goods and services, another 36 percent expect to incorporate online purchasing in their operations beginning next year, according to data released Thursday by IDC Many European companies are already laying the groundwork for automated acquisition and management of goods and services...
The U.S. government moved one step closer to a permanent ban on Internet access taxes and a five-year extension on the moratorium on multiple or discriminatory Internet taxes Thursday, when the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law passed the "Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act" (H.R. 1552) However, Judiciary Committee s...
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