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Television will become an important vehicle for e-commerce transactions in the coming years, according to a study released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The research firm said that the majority of TV-driven buying will soon be transacted via interactive television (iTV) shopping programs, with viewers using remote control devices, instead of by telephone with viewers calling in to buy showcased items.
Cybercrime fighters are scheduled to continue lobbying U.S. Congress on Thursday for more money and power to combat hackers, con artists and other cyber crooks "No one knows the full extent of the fraud being committed on the Internet," Thomas T. Kubic, deputy assistant director for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), told the House of ...
Seven months after launching a Japanese-language book-selling site, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) said Wednesday the site is adding music, video and DVD product lines, with more offerings to come before the end of the year. The expanded product lines will bring several of the features for which the original Amazon site is known, including customer pro...
While U.S. lawmakers have failed to stop the flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail-- otherwise known as spam -- clogging e-mail boxes across the nation, many savvy netizens are turning to SpamCop.net, a tool that helps consumers filter out spam and report spammers to their Internet service providers (ISPs). Julian Haight, the Seattle, Washington ...
Electronics e-tailer X10.com leapfrogged over Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) in the May rankings of the Top 50 most visited Web sites, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix Driven by a "pop-up" and "pop-under" ad strategy that accounted for 95 percent of its traffic, X10.com moved up in the rankings fro...
As the summer travel season gets underway and a new competitor -- airline-backed Orbitz -- enters the fray, online travel companies are bombarding consumers with new multimedia marketing pitches. However, analysts told the E-Commerce Times on Tuesday that even with the new TV and print ad campaigns, it will be difficult for any one company to dist...
While most of us are busy breaking out our deck chairs and SPF 45 at this time of year, online toy companies are already counting down to their hottest time of the year -- the winter shopping season E-commerce has been somewhat brutal to toy retailers, but though still volatile and unpredictable, the online toy sector is evolving and could prove ki...
America Online (NYSE: AOL) and General Motors (NYSE: GM) announced Wednesday that they are extending a marketing and advertising alliance to push for the sale of the auto giant's cars on the Internet As part of the "multimillion dollar" agreement, the companies will continue to promote GM's full line of cars and trucks across AOL and its other inte...
Hoping to prevent customers from straying, and perhaps laying the groundwork for an e-tailer browser war, Half.com launched a price-comparison shopping feature Tuesday that alerts shoppers who click into a competitor's inventory that the item they're looking for is available back at Half.com. Called "Price Patrol," the feature is designed to alert...
Roughly 70 percent of large firms will fall prey to a handful of"significant business traps" -- including the fumbling of e-commerce opportunities -- that will hamper growth and perhaps destroy entire companies, predicted a report released Tuesday by GartnerG2, a new research service of Gartner Group At a time when the cooling economy is forcing ma...
Duet, the online music venture backed by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (UMG), has been renamed Pressplay, the companies said Monday The companies also said that two former UMG executives would be taking the reins of the new company. Pressplay's new president and chief executive officer will be Andy Schuon, formerly president an...
News item: One of the richest people in Hong Kong plunks down a few million dollars to buy a bigger slice of potential turnaround story Priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN). Cause for optimism? You bet. Can we go so far as to say now that there's a reason to believe the bad days are all over for the name-your-price e-tailer? ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is implementinga new plan to crack down on Web sites selling fraudulent curesfor terminal diseases such as cancer and AIDS The FTC said that on Thursday it will announce a new round of law enforcement actionsto stem the tide of fraudulent marketing of supplements and other health products onthe Internet. It w...
The European Commission (EC) is investigating potential anti-competitive aspects of two major new online music ventures, Duet and MusicNet, an EC official said Monday Speaking at the third European Union (EU) Competition Day, EC competition minister Mario Monti said that the EC is investigating Duet, backed by Vivendi Universal (NYSE: V) and Sony M...
While many e-tailers have scaled back on promotional offerings such as free shipping in recentmonths to cut costs, a study released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix said that the return of paid shipping is driving away Web shoppers According to the survey, almost two-thirds of consumers have been deterredfrom completing online purchases because of sh...
While many e-tailers have scaled back on promotional offerings such as free shipping in recentmonths to cut costs, a study released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix said that the return of paid shipping is driving away Web shoppers According to the survey, almost two-thirds of consumers have been deterredfrom completing online purchases because of sh...
While many e-tailers have scaled back on promotional offerings such as free shipping in recentmonths to cut costs, a study released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix said that the return of paid shipping is driving away Web shoppers According to the survey, almost two-thirds of consumers have been deterredfrom completing online purchases because of sh...
Although sites that offer Internet services like free e-mailare growing fast, search engines, portals and online communities account for the bulk of allonline traffic in the United States, according to a report released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings One out of every three Americans visits a portal site like America Online (NYSE: AOL) or Yahoo! (Nas...
Auction leader eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) launched its much-anticipated storefronts project, known as eBay Stores, on Monday. The project will begin with a two-week pilot program involving leading eBay sellers, and will be available to all qualified sellersstarting June 18th.
Broadband Internet service provider Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) announced Monday that it has raised US$100 million through the sale of five-year convertible secured notes Purchasers of the notes, which bear no interest, can convert them at any time into Excite@Home Series A common stock at $4.38, a 10 percent premium over Friday's weighted average t...
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