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Apparently, it is an e-tailer's prerogative to change its mind -- or at least be flexible Computer and electronics e-tailer Outpost.com (Nasdaq: COOL) said Tuesday that it will bring back free shipping on some items, a partial reversal of an earlier decision to abandon free delivery and the company's third shipping policy change of the year.
WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) reversed an early morning gain to trade down 68 U.S. cents at $8.37 Wednesday, after reporting a narrower loss for the first quarter and announcing a partnership with AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) The company, which provides health information and services over the Internet, said its loss in the quarter ended March 31st, before r...
In a bid to further expand its e-commerce offerings, the Netscape NetbusinessMarketplace announced Tuesday that it has struck a deal withTravelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) to sell airline tickets, hotel bookings and car rentalreservations The Netbusiness Marketplace, which is a joint venture by AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) and onlinebusiness-to-business...
Exodus Communications (Nasdaq: EXDS) fell 75 U.S. cents to $9.37 in morning trading Wednesday, after the Web hosting company said it will cut about 15 percent of its 4,500 employees as part of a plan to reduce costs The plan will result in a charge of "less than $10 million" to results for the current quarter, Exodus said....
While there might be more hand-wringing over dot-com layoffs than is truly warranted, e-commerce watchers have as much right to be concerned about recent job-cut trends as anyone in other segments of the high-tech sector Data for April released by job placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC) indicated a new monthly record for overall dot-c...
The potential for price fixing in business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces was one of many thorny issues addressed Monday and Tuesday in Washington D.C. at a seminar sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lawyers, economists, researchers and business leaders attending the two-day public workshop, entitled "Emerging Issues for Competi...
Deep into the second quarter of the year and after months spent struggling to survive, e-tailers are finally shifting their focus back to the basics, including, of course, consumer privacy With the economy finally showing signs of stabilizing, Web merchants are confronting the issue of who should serve as regulator of online privacy -- private indu...
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) lost 80 U.S.cents to $16.12 in morning trading Tuesday, after Prudential Securitiesrepeated a sell rating on the e-tailer's shares, saying they are a"high-risk" investment, and put a price target of $9 on the stock Amazon's base of more than 32 million customers, considered by many to beamong the e-tailer's most valuable a...
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) rose 82 U.S. cents to $20.07 in morning trading Tuesday, after Morgan Stanley Dean Witter raised its rating on the router maker's stock ahead of the company's quarterly financial report, due out after the day's close of trading Morgan analyst Christopher Stix upgraded Cisco to outperform from neutral, citing "increased ...
eMachines (Nasdaq: EEEE) jumped 25 U.S. cents to 49 cents in morning trading Tuesday -- an increase of 104.2 percent -- after the company, which makes low-costpersonal computers, said it hired an adviser to help it consider "strategicalternatives," including a possible sale "As a result of our continuing review of strategic alternatives followingou...
Online grocer Peapod (Nasdaq: PPOD) said Tuesday it will hand over its pack-and-ship service to Netgrocer.com, in order to focus on local markets. Chicago, Illinois-based Peapod said Netgrocer's services will replace "Peapod Packages," which enabled customers to purchase certain non-perishable items that were then delivered by United Parcel Servic...
Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced late Monday that it is replacing president and chief executive officer Daniel Schulman. The e-tailer said chairman Richard Braddock will retake the reins as CEO, a position he held from July 1998 to May 2000. Chief operating officer Jeffery H. Boyd will assume the role of president.
Looking to tap the digital music subscription market, personalized software maker MusicMatch announced Monday that it is starting a fee-driven online radio service that will serve as a springboard for the launch of song-selling initiatives in the coming months The San Diego, California-based company said the new streaming service, dubbed Radio MX, ...
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) slipped 66 U.S. cents to $16.90 in morning trading Monday, after a published report said the e-tail giant has scaled back its mobile commerce efforts in the face of a weak U.S. market for wireless shopping The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the effort," said that Amazon for a time considered spinning off...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Monday that it was partnering with Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) and Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq: BALT) to design, develop, and market a Windows 2000-based software package that incorporates Identrus, an electronic identity verification system The collaboration will enable financial institutions to "build a co...
Proxicom (Nasdaq: PXCM) climbed US$1.64 to $7.30 in morning trading Monday, after the Internet consulting company said it received a buyout offer from Dimension Data of the United Kingdom, topping an earlier bid from Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) Proxicom said Dimension Data offered to buy the company for $7.50 per share in cash. Last month, however, Proxicom...
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) picked up 70 U.S. cents to $20.34 in morning trading Monday, following news of an agreement with China Telecom Cisco said it will provide more than 500 high-speed Internet routers to the Chinese telecommunications company to help it build an "information highway stretching across China." Financial terms were not disclos...
Leading Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) on Monday rolled out a new version of its instant messaging (IM) service, one that will enable users to place international phone calls through their personal computers. The feature comes amid an upgrade of Yahoo's IM service and is the latest in a series of attempts by the portal to find additional so...
What's in a name? Plenty, when it's an online name. At least that's been the conventional wisdom. But with many of the best-known e-commerce brand names -- from Pets.com to eToys and Furniture.com -- now resting in peace, and without the piles of money needed to fuel the type of name-building efforts that were common two years ago, enthusiasm has ...
The controversy continues for travel mega-site Orbitz. Southwest Airlines sued the airline-backed travel giant Thursday for providing "false and misleading" information to its customers regarding Southwest flight schedules, rates and fares. Southwest also alleged that Orbitz is using Southwest's proprietary scheduling information without Southwest...
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