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Succeeding in any competitive business requires a killer instinct. And it's especially true in an industry as competitive, fast-growing and increasingly crowded as online travel. No one can be bullied and hope to be around in the long run. So Southwest Airlines is right to stand up for what it sees as its own interests in its ongoing feud with Orb...
Online payment service PayPal is at the center of two controversies, including a new lawsuit filed by NoBidding, the owner of auction site Bidville.com The lawsuit accuses PayPal of reneging on an agreement made in December to provide Bidville -- formerly known as AuxPal -- with its payment services. The suit also alleges that PayPal sent libelous ...
Online auctioneer eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and electronics e-tailer X10.com saw big gains in traffic in June, according to monthly statistics released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) However, the research firm said the rankings are misleading because of the companies' use of pop-up and pop-under ads, which automatically open windows to t...
AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) said Thursday it has struck an expanded marketing deal with Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG), under which the two companies will pursue development of new television-based e-commerce platforms Focused largely on cooperative marketing in the European market, where Amsterdam-based Phillips has a stronghold, the deal also ca...
Despite a net loss of 9 U.S. cents per share over the second quarter of 2001, Yahoo!(Nasdaq: YHOO) gained a minor victory in front of Wall Street on Wednesday, with the announcement that its pro-forma net income for the quarter was a penny per share Analysts had expected the portal giant to report breakeven earnings forthe quarter just ended, down ...
Membership targets for Project ACTION -- a program through which consumers and businesses would initiate payments to a seller via their own financial institutions, rather than authorizing the seller to debit their accounts -- have been reached, the Electronic Payments Association announced Tuesday According to the not-for-profit association, also k...
In most parts of the country, it was a news item that was easy to miss, but it was front page news in New Orleans, Louisiana when Lawrence E. Williams became the first person tried under the 1998 federal identity fraud statute. In all, Williams, 22, was charged with 14 counts of identity fraud. When it became clear that he was destined for federal...
Usage of the Internet at work increased 23 percent in the past year, reaching a total of 42.3 million surfers, according to a report released Wednesday by Nielsen//NetRatings The audience measurement firm's June 2001 Internet ratings found that online users are averaging 43 log-ins per month while at work, up 10 percent from June 2000.
Although American consumers increasingly view themselves as the "first line of defense" in the fight to safeguard personal information online, firms conducting business on the Internet need to offer stronger privacy protections, according to anew study released Tuesday by the Privacy Leadership Initiative(PLI) and Harris Interactive "People are tel...
Giving a boost to business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce Down Under, the Australian government announced Tuesday it would be handing out US$6.64 million in funding for B2B projects over the next five years The Information Technology Online (ITOL) grant program offers grants of up to $102,000 for B2B projects across a wide range of industries and, ac...
Battered Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) on Tuesday replaced its longtime chief financial officer with a former Bertelsmann executive as it continues trying to stem rising financial losses. The hiring of new CFO George McMillan, the former president and chief executive officer of BMG Direct -- the Bertelsmann unit that oversees CDNow.com an...
Online auto classifieds siteAutoTrader.com said Tuesday that it has inked a deal to host the used automobile search platform of FordDirect.com, the Internet venture of participating Ford dealers and Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) Under the new alliance, FordDirect car dealers will now have their used car inventories available to consumers on both For...
It's human nature to search for context, to try and putevents, especially negative events, into perspective. And it's journalistic nature to see every event as a superlative: the biggest, the best, the last, the final proof So depending upon where you got your news about Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) closing up shop and filing for bankruptcy protection, it...
The online advertising market will remain soft until the second half of next year, said executives at Internet marketing company DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) on Tuesday, after the company reported a wider loss for the second quarter ended June 30th "The second quarter was another difficult one, and we expect these conditions will persist through at l...
The shutdown of long-struggling Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) on Monday leaves several major U.S. areas without any online grocery service, as well as with no clear indication of how quickly the sector's remaining competitors will rush to fill in the gaps In particular, large pockets of the South appear to have been at least temporarily abandoned by Intern...
Travel site Expedia.com (Nasdaq: EXPE) said Tuesday it has struck a deal to have its Internet search technology licensed to more than 20,000 online and offline travel agents around the world. The initiative, known as ePricing, stems from Expedia's long-standing partnership with Worldspan, an airline-backed reservation system used by travel agents....
A recently acquired subsidiary of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Great Plains Business Solutions, announced Tuesday that it is partnering with business-to-business (B2B) software provider Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq: CLRS) to offer B2B e-procurement software The new product, called eProcure, is designed for use by businesses looking to integrate their e-...
Analysts disagree on whether Monday's announcement by CBS MarketWatch --that the financialWeb site will stop providing its clients with click-through rate information in itsadvertising reports -- will cause the e-commerce industry to break free of theclick-through status quo In a direct shot at the industry's most popular and controversial online a...
Brick-and-click brokerage E*Trade (NYSE: ET) will pay a US$90,000 fine for advertising and marketing tactics that the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) deemed misleading to investors NASD Regulation, a branch of the securities industry group, said Monday italso censured E*Trade for violating NASD advertising rules and supervisory me...
Comergent Technologies, a provider of sell-side business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce software, announced a deal with Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) on Monday in which suppliers and their channel partners will have the opportunity to use Comergent's distributed e-commerce system to connect with buyers via Commerce One's MarketSite Under the deal, Come...
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