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When Priceline.com made its entry into the e-commerce landscape, many travel enthusiasts eagerly embraced the name-your-price pioneer. After all, airlines want to fill empty seats, and passengers don't want to pay full fare, so everybody wins, right? Not so fast. Priceline'slast couple of weeks have been nightmarish. Sales forecasts are down, the s...
China has announced sweeping Internet regulations that restrict foreign investment in Internet content providers and require Web sites to maintain highly detailed records that must be turned over to the police on demand The new rules -- passed two weeks ago, but first published Monday in the state-run Xinhua Daily Telegraph -- are expected to sever...
A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that most Americans do not believe that downloading music from the Internet is stealing, even if the music is copyrighted "The Online Music Report" also reveals that users rarely buy the songs that they download, further raising the ire of the Recording Industry Association of America (R...
Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) has abandoned plans for a long-delayed, low-end computer chip aimed at making personal computers cheaper to build. According to the company, while technicians worked to fix design flaws, the potential market for the chip disappeared The "Timna" chip was supposed to make building PCs cheaper by combining several functions ...
If you're any kind of television fan (and I'm not here to debate the merits of being one), at some point A.C. Nielsen and his data-gathering progeny have been a royal pain in your remote. The Nielsen ratings have the power to cruelly destroy a show, however brilliant, if the numbers don't meet expectations The good news is that Nielsen//NetRatings,...
Racing to beat the launch of a similar program from Amazon.com, America Online (Nasdaq: AOL) on Monday formally introduced a plan to reward loyal members with frequent flyer miles from American Airlines AOL AAdvantage Rewards, as the plan has been dubbed, is being called the largest online and offline reward program. Members will earn miles by trav...
Although ever-increasing numbers of Web users are surfing to auction sites, a study from cPulse suggests that the auction fad will not have staying power unless online auctioneers take action to convert browsers to buyers The "Internet Customer Satisfaction Study" found that during the second quarter of this year, 26 percent of site visitors were f...
There's nothing quite like taking a Ferrari out on the open highway. There's also nothing quite like taking a Ferrari out on a muddy, potholed, traffic-congested road The dilemma facing a company doing business online today is that the temptation to build the flashiest Web site on the Net is tempered by the fear that the souped-up site will hit a d...
TIAS.com, a company that helps antique and collectibles dealers sell their merchandise over the Internet, announced Thursday it is launching a national chain of consignment centers that will allow people without Web access to sell their antiques and collectibles on eBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) The Houston, Texas-based company will photograph, caption ...
In anticipation of the predicted boom in online sales, Internet companies are updating their Web sites and double-checking their fulfillment processes. Everyone is talking about enhancing Web-based customer support and creating online experiences that increase site loyalty and drive sales. The goal is to attract and satisfy the greatest number of online shoppers, so they will keep coming back...
A study released Thursday by the Council for Excellence in Government shows that a majority of Americans believe e-government means better government The report, "E-Government: The Next American Revolution," said that while Americans believe e-government will save tax dollars, it will more importantly allow citizens to become better informed about ...
Starting Monday, more than 75,000 Internet users from around the world will log on to vote for five at-large members who will become the first Internet users to take seats on the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ICANN is the organization responsible for overseeing the domain name system that brings some sembl...
Joining the growing number of e-commerce companies that have been forced to cut costs amid the ongoing dot-com shakeout, Garden.com (Nasdaq: GDEN) announced Thursday it will lay off 93 employees, or about 40 percent of its workforce The company also said it expects to fall short of revenue predictions and is restructuring its operations. Refusing t...
The 23 year-old California man who allegedly orchestrated last month's "Emulex hoax" was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday, according to published reports Mark Jakob, a student at El Camino Community College near Los Angeles, faces 11 criminal counts of securities and wire fraud for an audacious stock market scheme in which he is said to...
Just one week after global computer chip-maker Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) startled the high-tech world with a dire earnings warning, Apple Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced that earnings for its fiscal quarter ending September 30th will be "substantially below expectations," causing shares in the company to plummet more than 50 percent Apple ...
Amid acrimonious debate over how Internet purchases should be taxed, if at all, representatives from 27 U.S. states are meeting near Chicago, Illinois Friday for public hearings on a proposal that would streamline sales tax for both online and offline retailers "The states are designing a new, simpler sales-and-use tax system that increases uniform...
Consumer electronics retailer RadioShack announced Wednesday that it will begin pushing Microsoft Internet services through store-based kiosks across the United States The kiosks, dubbed "Microsoft Internet Centers," are currently located in 5,800 RadioShack stores around the United States. In addition to offering other Microsoft-related products s...
Having cleared its final regulatory hurdle, automotive e-marketplace Covisint will begin pilot operations Friday, the company has announced The online automotive exchange, founded by Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, received approval from the German Bundeskartellamt, or Federal Cartel Office. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave Co...
Funny, isn't it, that during the same week a U.S. lawmaker told federal regulators to back off in connection with the proposed America Online (NYSE: AOL) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger, rumors that could have a serious negative impact on the deal began to surface AOL has been intentionally blocking its instant messaging rivals, the unconfirmed ...
WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM) has gone to court to appeal the European Commission's rejection of its proposed merger with rival phone company Sprint (NYSE: FON), saying the decision was misguided The companies called the merger off on July 13th. However, according to WorldCom general counsel Michael Salsbury, "the implications of the commission's decisio...
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