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What if there's a second Internet bubble and no one wants to get inside? It could happen. In fact, the number of people who wince, shudder or burst into tears when someone mentions the idea of going to work for a pure-play Web company is growing dramatically. I was one of those people who thought that this was truly a New Economy. That it would ch...
Word of mouth is one of the strongest marketing mediums available -- so strong that some struggling dot-coms, desperate to save advertising dollars, are begging their customers to help spread the word about their products and services "Word of mouth is very powerful in terms of buying power," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E...
Before "E" had anything to do with commerce, way back in the 1990s, the "e-word" usually referred to empowerment Have e-tailers forgotten the essential lessons of not-so-long ago? Consumers like to be in the driver's seat, and just because we have introduced a new genre of shopping does not mean we can take that away....
Looking to extend its reach to a new audience of potential customers, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced Friday that it has launched a new service to allow newspaper readers to search their local print edition for items posted on the Internet auction heavyweight's site. As part of the program, sellers who have placed goods on the online auction block a...
Razorfish (Nasdaq: RAZF) reversed a reported after-hours decline to trade up 11 U.S. cents at $1.33 Friday morning, after officials reportedly predicted a better second quarter than analysts expected After the close of trading Thursday, Razorfish reported a first-quarter loss and said that top executives, including its chief executive officer, had ...
iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL) fell 18 U.S. cents to $1.05 in morning trading Friday after the company, which operates Web sites aimed at women, reported a drop in revenue for the first quarter ended March 31st However, the New York-based company managed to narrow its loss from a year earlier as it cut costs and streamlined its operations....
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Thursday that it had taken legal action against two online Florida businesses for alleged distribution of counterfeit software One of the companies involved, Global Spider, Inc., which Microsoft believes also did business as Nico International LLC, allegedly distributed counterfeit software from a variety of Web a...
News flash: Online car buyers confused. Wait a minute, you say. Is that news? Car buying is for many consumers the most dreaded, anxiety-provoking consumer experience.
A new car company offering customized automobiles over the Internet has beenformed through the merger of online car sales company Model E and Flint, Inc. a start-up created by CarsDirect.com co-founder Scott Painter The new venture, called Build-To-Order or BTOauto.com, said that it will be led by the former chief executive officer of Model E, Will...
DirectGroup Bertelsmann, parent company of CDNow and majority owner of Barnesandnoble.com, said Friday that it will buy e-mail marketing and e-commerce firm Zooba.com. DirectGroup, the corporate division that integrates Bertelsmann's direct-to-customer businesses, said that it plans to transfer half ownership of Zooba to Bookspan, the book club ma...
If you were an angel in Brooklyn, would you bless a new dot-com or a corner grocery store? No, not that kind of angel. I'm talking about another genre -- private individuals who contribute to funds that are meant to help entrepreneurs have a shot at the big time.
HotJobs.com (Nasdaq: HOTJ) picked up 75 U.S. cents to $6.15 in morning trading Thursday, after the online recruiting services company reported a narrower loss for the first quarter and said that it will post an operating profit sooner than previously expected The New York City-based company reported an operating loss of $6 million, or 16 cents per ...
Handspring (Nasdaq: HAND) fellUS$2.44 to $15.06 in morning trading Thursday, after Lehman Brothersdowngraded the stock to buy from strong buy Lehman analyst Joseph To reportedly told clients that the decision by Handspring competitorPalm (Nasdaq: PALM) to slash prices and get more of its handheldcomputers into stores could force Handspring to cut p...
Hit hard by a precipitous drop in sales, beleaguered Internet retailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) reported Wednesday thatits first-quarter revenue plummeted 40 percent from the year-ago period andwarned that its second-quarter revenue would see an even deeper decline The Aliso Viejo, California-based company said it was concentrating onslashing its los...
An online business directory designed to make business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce simpler and more efficient went live Wednesday In addition to providing basic company information, the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) allows businesses to list their products and services, as well as important technical information about the...
North American e-commerce revenue is expected to grow 46 percent by the end of 2001 compared to a year earlier, tojust over US$65 billion, according to aretailer survey released Wednesday by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Shop.org In addition, the report predicted that online retailing will show significant growth as a percentage of overall ...
Prices for consumer collectibles on leading person-to-person auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) have dropped an average of 25 percent in the past year, while at the same time the number of listings has increased, according to a report released Thursday by AuctionBytes.com. AuctionBytes president David Steiner told the E-Commerce Times that the trend...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) went on a bit of a shopping spree late last month, dropping US$80 million over here for Internet consultant Mainspring and another $1 billion over there for database company Informix. Not to be outdone, Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) laid $266 million on the line for a Web consulting firm of its own, Proxicom. Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has been buy...
S1 (Nasdaq: SONE) climbed US$1.85 to $8.93in morning trading Wednesday, after the online banking software maker topped analyst estimates for the first quarter "Our revenue performance was driven by 72 new customerspurchasing a good cross-section of our enterprise e-finance offerings,"S1 chief executive officer Jaime Ellertson said. "Our two most im...
Despite speculation that Internet behemoth Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) will eventually open real world stores as a way to boost profits and make product returns easier, a senior executive with the company said Tuesday that Amazon intends to stay in cyberspace for the time being "One of the questions we keep hearing is, is Amazon going to be buying retail ...
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