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When you examine the state of e-commerce today, one thing is abundantly clear: traditional brick-and-mortars are making the greatest inroads online. So what's to stop Amazon.com, the Internet's most recognized brand, from reversing this trend and leveraging its name to open brick-and-mortar stores of its own?...
Despite an estimated plunge of more than 80 percent in auction listings since Yahoo! started charging users a listing fee, the Internet giant maintains that the effects of the change have been positive A Yahoo! spokesperson told the E-Commerce Times that the company was "very pleased" with the listing fees, saying that "as expected, listings have d...
E-commerce kiosks: Before too long, every retailer will have one in the corner of the store. But willany of the customers know what to do with them? Every day, the question becomes more and more pertinent. Kmart and Barnes & Noble have already started down the kiosk path. And recently, after a short test run, office supplies merchant Staples flick...
Beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) announced Tuesday that chief executive officer and chairman of the board Gregory Hawkins and chief financial officer Mitch Hill had resigned for unspecified reasons "The realities of the marketplace demand that we drive vigorously toward profitability," said James B. Roszak, who is stepping in as interim ...
PurchasePro.com (Nasdaq: PPRO) roseUS$2.70 to $18.62 in morning trading Tuesday after soaring past analystestimates for the fourth quarter ended December 31st Credit Suisse First Boston reportedly reiterated a strong buy rating onPurchasePro shares following the news, while ABN Amro reportedly repeated a buy rating on the stock....
Quokka Sports (Nasdaq: QKKA) was up 6 U.S. cents at 25 cents in early trading Tuesday after the online sports companysaid it would restructure its operations, letting go 59 percent of its369-person workforce and taking a $1 million charge to first-quarterresults San Francisco, California-based Quokka said it will focus on its mainbusiness of live s...
QXL Ricardo (Nasdaq: QXLC) was down 38 U.S. cents at $3.88 in morning trading Tuesday, as the European online auctioneerreported a wider loss for the third quarter ended December 31st The company, based in London, said it lost 41.05 million pounds in thequarter, compared with a loss of 25.63 million pounds in the same period ayear earlier. The loss...
Millions of car shoppers do not buy cars online because automakers are misfiring with their marketing efforts, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester Research. Car sites overwhelm potential shoppers with information, rather than carefully guiding them through the shopping process to the buying stage, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based...
For some people, testifying before the U.S. Congress might be a moment of historical glory. But usually, especially lately, it seems to mean you did something wrong When you're being put on the defensive, testifying has to be a little scary. Which is why it was heartwarming for most of us to see the new chief of the Internet Corporation for Assigne...
Although the Internet created cyberspace, which does not exist in a physical sense, the web is entering the real world in a new way Retailers are increasingly bringing the Internet into brick-and-mortar stores in the form of web kiosks that allow customers to shop online at the store's e-tail counterpart....
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) launched a new software download store Monday, aimed at providing customers with near-instant access to products it already sells by mail The download option also enables the Seattle, Washington-based e-tailer to sell software without having to handle or ship the product to the customer....
Fewer than 100 of the 500 European business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces currently in existence will survive over the coming years, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter MMXI Europe Even so, the report predicted that online B2B trade in Europe would grow from US$185 million, or 1.5 percent of all European business, to $1.7 billion by...
Another legal volley was fired Thursday in the international battle over Yahoo! auctions of Nazi memorabilia. The France-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) has filed a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit that Yahoo! filed in a U.S. court in December contesting a French court's order After a French judge ordered Ya...
E-commerce has hit a dangerous curve because the venture capitalists who were driving it have found the freeway off-ramp According to the National Venture Capital Association, venture capitalists have decreased their investments across the U.S. a whopping 31 percent from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2000. In contrast, for the previous...
Although the Internet advertising industry has taken a hit in recent months, a reportreleased Thursday finds that online firms should not be so quick to scaleback their Web-based marketing efforts in a bid to trim operating budgets According to data from online measurement firm Jupiter Media Metrix, the top 25newcomer Web sites in 2000 were fueled ...
EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) shares picked upUS$1.34 to $10.25 in morning trading Friday. The Internet service provider and long-distance phone service provider Sprint Corp. (NYSE: FON) announced that they have changed terms of an alliance formed in 1998, in order to provide "more flexibility for bothcompanies in pursuing additional third-party partners."
Razorfish, Inc. (Nasdaq: RAZF) was at US$1.66 in morning trading Friday, down 22 cents, after the company posted a loss for the fourth quarter ended December 31st The fourth-quarter results were in line with the company's revised projections. In December, Razorfish predicted a loss for the quarter, saying the market for its services had "changed dr...
Audible, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBL) jumped 135 percent Friday morning after the company said that Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) would invest US$10 million in the company to help it develop its online audio technology In midmorning trading, Audible was up $1.19 at $2.06....
While e-tail fulfillment problems have been a steady source ofdissatisfaction among online consumers, a report released Thursdayconcludes that they also often dampen efforts by Web merchants to achieve profitability According to an analysis of e-commerce infrastructure by Jupiter Research, 44 percent of Internetmerchants lose money on the multilaye...
While e-tail fulfillment problems have been a steady source ofdissatisfaction among online consumers, a report released Thursdayconcludes that they also often dampen efforts by Web merchants to achieve profitability According to an analysis of e-commerce infrastructure by Jupiter Research, 44 percent of Internetmerchants lose money on the multilaye...
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