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iVillage.com (Nasdaq: IVIL) will cut more jobs over the next couple of months as it shoots to break even on apro forma basis in the third quarter of this year, executives of the New York City-based women's Internet network said The "rightsizing" will include a reduction in the company's workforce over the next 60 days to "somewhere fewer than 200 p...
The Consumers' Association, a British advocacy group that campaigns to increase online security, said Friday that it suffered a security breach in its TaxCalcsoftware site that left the credit-card information of nearly 3,000customers exposed to unauthorized third parties The security flaw affected customers who purchased a copy of theAssociation's...
We all knew the century had officially turned in my town when the local race track started accepting bets via the Internet In New Orleans, Louisiana, betting on the ponies is as much a part of some people's days as going to work. So the idea of getting lucky with a mouse click makes our heads swim.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcedThursday that it has sued another Internet pyramid scheme that conned thousands ofconsumers The FTC said that the target of its lawsuit, Streamline International,promotes itself as a multi-level marketing program sellingdietary supplements and health-care products. In addition toits Web sites, Stream...
Databases at online credit card processing and security provider Anacom Communications were illegally accessed this week, Anacom's parent company ZixIt Corporation confirmed Thursday ZixIt said that it took control of the entire Anacom premises and began forensic data analysis on the breach Monday night. In addition, the company said, the U.S. Fede...
T1msn, a joint venture of Microsoft and Mexican phone company Telmex, said Thursday it is acquiring Yupi Internet and launching YupiMSN, a Spanish-language portal. With the acquisition, T1msn, whose audience has grown to more than 5 million unique users since its launch a year ago, will expand its services beyond Mexico to reach additional Spanish...
Following in the footsteps of private industry, the U.S. government is turning to e-business to fuel its supply chain, improve its employment programs and dispose of its surplus goods. Three separate announcements marking Uncle Sam's transition to the online realm came Wednesday, from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Labor, ...
In order to steer long-term revenue growth, businesses need to begin using the Internet to move all of their company operations as close as possible to customers and suppliers, or risk being edged out of the game by competitors, according to a report released Wednesday by GartnerG2 To this end, the report -- titled "The Edge Economy: Give Up Contro...
Auto dealers are not using the Internet to their best advantage when seeking to lure customers to their dealerships, according to a study released Wednesday by research firm J.D. Power and Associates A key issue is that car dealers generally do not have a good idea of how they can use Internet-related technology to improve results, according to the...
Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Wednesday that they have inked a deal to create interactive multimedia broadcast centers for Travelocity customers Fort Worth, Texas-based Travelocity said that the broadcast centers, set to open later this summer, will "bring together Travelocity's video, audio, photo images and te...
Looking to narrow the gap between television and e-commerce, Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Thursday it is expanding its relationship with ValueVision International (Nasdaq: VVTV), the third-largest home shopping network. ValueVision said it plans to re-launch its cable home-shopping network and online companion site on Friday as ShopN...
Undaunted by consistent reports of hackers, consumer data being compromised online, and technological loopholes, my credit-card numbers are all over the Internet I shop regularly at the Web sites of a number of small merchants, as well as those of mega-stores. Clothes, books, luxury gifts -- I've bought them all, and with various credit cards.
The era of e-business profitability has begun, but the gap between the most and least successful Internet companies is still growing, according to a study released Tuesday by McKinsey & Company. "Not all dot-coms deserve their current beating from investors," said McKinsey consultant Tilman Kemmler. "Twenty percent of them are making an operating ...
A new trial date in November has been set in the copyright infringement case brought by Tee Vee Tunes against MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP), after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case Tuesday, citing a mathematical error by the jury In April, a jury found that MP3.com must pay TVT $292,000 for copyright infringement. However, within hours of th...
Internet liquidator Overstock.com on Tuesday launched a new business-to-business (B2B) site, OverstockB2B.com, aimed at helping small business owners buy liquidated merchandise at deep discounts According to Overstock, traditional liquidation channels squeeze out mom-and-pop operations with limited budgets and shelf space, because most manufacturer...
Despite the fact that more people in the UK are shopping over the Internetthan ever before, a report released Tuesday by Which? Online and theUK Consumers' Association reveals several potential warning signs forBritish e-tailers According to the report, 63 percent of British Internetusers venture online for less than five hours per week, and 2 perc...
An executive order signed Tuesday by U.S. President George W. Bush aims to makecomputers -- and the Internet -- more accessible to people withdisabilities, beginning with new requirements for government Web sites "The Internet brings a world of information into a computer screen, whichhas enriched the lives of many with disabilities," Bush said in ...
The worlds of e-commerce and online advertising are going through a bit of a phase, it seems. Experimentation is the name of the game, as e-tailers and others try to break free of "old" formulas in an all-out effort to re-stoke the growth engines that hummed so powerfully for a while.
Internet apparel and home furnishings retailer Bluefly.com (Nasdaq: BFLY) announced Tuesday that it is slashing 32 jobs, or approximately 34 percent of its workforce, in a bid to reach profitability, improve efficiency and diminish the need for additional capital The e-tailer also said it is implementing similar reductions in its marketing and oper...
In e-commerce today, one company is clearly the king of the online auction hill. And according to experts, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for rivals to stage a coup d'eBay San Jose, California-based eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) grew to be a "yard sale on steroids," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times, because it...
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