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In the latest turn of events concerning the regulation of Nazi and other hate-related memorabilia sales online, a U.S. district court in California Thursday decided not to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) aiming to declare a French court's ruling against the Internet portal unenforceable "The court's opinion indicates that those who...
Those who have faithfully followed the 21st-century battle that is Napster vs. the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) now know one critical fact. Napster is going mainstream and blending in, vanilla-like, with corporate America. One might wonder what happened to Napster's revolutionary spirit. Its renegade founder. Its cutting-edge c...
According to published reports, a federal court in New York ruled on Friday that a state law prohibiting mail-order, Internet and telephone sales of cigarettes is unconstitutional because it places an undue burden on interstate commerce. The permanent order to halt enforcement of the law came after a five-day trial that concluded April 30th. Accor...
Further paring its focus to its strong suits of marketing and customer service, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has outsourced part of its electronics fulfillment to Overstock.com. The agreement calls for Salt Lake City, Utah-based Overstock to fulfill orders for about 700 different items in Amazon's electronics category.
Echoing the success U.S. online travel companies have enjoyed, data releasedThursday by Jupiter MMXI said that European travel Web sites are also seeing a surging demand for their services According to the research firm, the number of consumers visiting travelsites in Europe spiked by almost 4 million between November and April.
7-Eleven (NYSE: SE) said Thursday itwill install Internet-enabled financial service kiosks in 36 stores in FortMyers and Naples, Florida, as part of an expanded test of financial servicesthat may eventually include online shopping The convenience-store chain already has Web-ready machines in 58 of itsTexas stores, and customers have "responded well...
Can an e-tailer make a simple mistake without being punished? Are e-tailers human enough to err, and can customers be divine enough to forgive? Here's the scenario. You come across a DVD player selling on a Web site for US$3.99. That's right. Just 399 pennies from your jar -- the pennies you'd dump at the bank if you could just take the time to stu...
Thursday, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that had struck down the state's anti-spam law The high court ruled that the only burden the law places on spammers is the requirement of truthfulness -- which in fact does not burden interstate commerce, but actually helps it by eliminating fraud....
Automakers hoping to leverage the power of the Internet to generate new car sales need to concentrate less on online selling and more on building brand awareness, according to a report released Thursday by Jupiter Media Metrix "Given that most consumers will ultimately purchase an automobile offline, automotive advertisers will see little benefit i...
In a world where Internet-only players are flying off the screen at an alarming pace, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is likely to succeed where other pure-plays have failed, analysts from Jupiter Media Metrix told the E-Commerce Times. The e-tail giant itself said this week that it is on track to deliver pro forma profitability in the fourth quarter of...
Orbitz, the online travel company launched by a group of airlines earlier this week, said late Wednesday it plans to double its customer-service staff over the next three weeks, to more than 200, in order to deal with a "deluge" of business The Chicago-based company, controlled by five airlines that account for a combined 85 percent of the U.S. air...
European e-commerce is being hampered by a combination of inflexiblepayment schemes, strict governmental mandates, and small-scale businessmodels, according to a study released Wednesday by Forrester Research "Cultural differences matter, but payment issues, regulations and domesticmarket size are the dominant reasons why consumers don't buy online...
The Chrysler Group said Thursday that it has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to oversee an upgrade of its Web properties, with an eye toward improving its e-commerce initiatives. Chrysler, a Michigan-based division of automaker giant DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX), said that IBM will work with software and service provider Cobalt (Nasdaq: CBLT) and Web cons...
A drop-off in first-quarter sales by e-commerce firms following the holiday season does not necessarily mean things are all bad for e-tailers, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) told the E-Commerce Times on Wednesday. In fact, e-commerce is showing several signs of increased vitality over last year, the research firm said....
Because WhatsHotNow.com (WHN) abruptly closed its e-commerce services division, the e-tail operations of a number of TV Web sites, including Comedy Central, NBC and TV Guide, have had to shut down this week "[WHN] said they were negotiating an acquisition, and if that didn't happen they would have to shut down," Comedy Central senior vice president...
The ongoing online music wars have taken an interesting turn Executives with digital music companies went before the U.S. Congress and essentially asked legislators to change U.S. copyright laws to accommodate the needs of their business....
American Express (NYSE: AXP) launched a new company Tuesday, dubbed Workadia, which is aimed at capturing a share of the corporate portal market. Workadia will provide businesses with customizable browser-accessed portals that employees can use to access a company-selected menu of services, including such options as financial services, e-mail, exp...
Shareholders of office supplies retailer Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) will get extra time to evaluate the company's plan to buy back the shares of its online unit, Staples.com, thanks to a court decision handed down Tuesday A judge said that Staples must provide shareholders with more information on the plan, which some investors have said unfairly benef...
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is still on track to deliver pro forma profitability in the fourth quarter of this year and expects to be profitable on the same basis for all of 2002, the company said Tuesday "While there can never be guarantees, you will hear from us that we are highly confident about our ability to deliver pro forma operating profits i...
There are two ways to read the news that just four Web properties -- Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Napster -- account for half of all the surfing time in the U.S. One school of thought sees the consolidation as a dangerous trend, one that threatens to make the Internet a homogenous, brand-name-ridd...
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