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Children up to age 11 click on Web ads more than any other age group, while teens rarely click the ads, Nielsen//NetRatings said Tuesday The findings came from the new Internet Advertising Strategies service, launched Tuesday by NetRatings Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT), Nielsen Media Research and ACNielsen eRatings.com to gauge Net advertising usage, audienc...
You have DotComGuy. You also have the e-Cavemen, the MSN Project Four and -- better nicknames welcome -- Internet Strategist on a Boat In the past year, several individuals and groups have taken it upon themselves to show the world they can survive and conquer (that is to say, eat and shop) without any means of communications technology except the ...
According to a report released Tuesday by the Yankee Group, e-tailers consistently fall far short in customer service strategy because too many resources are expended trying to solve the technical riddles of online selling The Boston, Massachusetts-based research firm said that while multi-channel selling that balances on and offline strategies for...
The debate over freedom of the Internet is escalating, as government and policymaking bodies attempt to establish some enforceable parameters for its use. The implications are social, political and economic. Conservative societies are at odds with the Net-dominating United States over such issues as pornography and the sale of merchandise considered hate-based or racist...
American Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) ran into yet another international dispute this weekend when authorities in the religiously conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia closed down one of its sites, clubs.yahoo.com Saudi authorities told Saudi newspaper al-Eqtisadiah that the site contained pornographic and other morally offensive materi...
A French court has asked a panel of Internet security experts to find a way to bar Internet users in France from accessing Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) auctions of Nazi memorabilia Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance gave the three experts two months to come up with a means to block the U.S.-based Web auctions, which violate ...
Value America, Inc. (Nasdaq: VUSA), one of e-tailing's early high fliers, said Friday it has discontinued its retail operations, let go 185 employees and filed for bankruptcy protection so it can develop a business to help other companies sell products online The Charlottesville, Virginia-based company said it is seeking to restructure its operatio...
Those cheers that erupted in Silicon Valley and all the other technology hotbeds last week were not over a stock market spike or stellar earnings reports. The roar of approval came from tech executives who were elated over Vice President Al Gore's bold choice of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) as his running mate in the presidential election ...
Funding for e-commerce sites declined amid an overall increase in venture capital funding for the quarter ended June 30th, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree survey released Monday Investment in both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sites suffered a drop in both raw venture capital dollars (US$) inv...
E-commerce analysts keep a closer watch on the key players in the dot-com industry than the tabloids do of Elizabeth Taylor's marriages. But what about the "oldest e-profession" of them all -- porn? It's mysterious, a bit dangerous, and apparently quite lucrative. Imagine a dot-com startup with no stockholders, no meetings with antsy venture capita...
Marking its second major e-commerce deal in just under a week, e-business applications provider Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN) announced an alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) Thursday to jointly sell, market and engineer e-commerce hardware and software products Vignette had already announced a pact with IBM to jointly market and se...
A federal court in New York has sentenced the first person to stand trial for operating an offshore gambling business that unlawfully accepts bets from Americans over the Internet U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa sentenced Jay Cohen, co-owner of Antigua-based World Sports Exchange, to 21 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release...
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the process of selecting a panel of scientists and experts from a major university to scrutinize "Carnivore," the FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance system. The DOJ plans to make the panel's report on the system available to the public "The university rev...
Well, it's official. The numbers finally prove what even the staunchest resister must have recognized all along: The Internet is no longer the last remaining bastion of maleness Women now lead men in Net use by a few tenths of a percentage point. Doesn't sound like much, but in terms of the psychological impact, it's a bombshell. So prepare, everyo...
Large brick-and-mortar chain retailers are showing the strongest sales in a slow summer for online shopping, with women doing the bulk of the buying, according to statistics released Thursday by PC Data Online JCPenney.com, Sears.com, BestBuy.com, Staples.com and Spiegel.com advanced on the list of e-tail sales in July, though all reported "slight ...
In July of 1999, online pharmacy Drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM) went public with an IPO price of $18 (US$). The stock rose to 67 1/2 before beginning a long decline that would take it to a low of 4 11/16. Shares are now hovering around 6, and Drugstore.com is among the high profile e-commerce firms languishing on the second tier of Goldman Sachs' notorious June "death watch" list...
E-commerce sales in Canada accounted for only 0.2 percent of total private sector sales last year, a report issued Thursday by Statistics Canada found The report said that the U.S., with a population approximately nine times that of Canada, spent nearly 13 times as much online in just the fourth quarter of 1999 as Canada did the entire year.
A new poll by Harris Interactive reports that the number of Americans looking to the Internet for health care information has doubled to 98 million since 1998 Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults logged on to the Internet from homes, offices, colleges and other places, the study said. Of that total, 86 percent use the Internet to look up information ei...
There may soon come a time when both small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses will be rooting for the U.S. government to stick its nose directly into the broadband industry, just as it did when the country was being wired for telephone service, and again when it broke up Ma Bell There are currently a handful of bills trapped in the House of Repres...
UK-based online auctioneer QXL (Nasdaq: QXLC) cast serious doubt Thursday over whether its proposed $942 million (US$) merger with German online auction house Ricardo.de will go forward as planned The company issued a terse statement saying it has "received certain information from Ricardo.de in the period following the announcement of the proposed...
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