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CRM Report: Sedona Adds CRM Banking Customer

Sedona Corporation (Nasdaq: SDNA) announced Friday that it has signed a contract to provide CRM software to Central Bancompany, a $4.5 billion Missouri-based bank holding company Under the terms of the contract, Central Bancompany will utilize the customer information management system that the Limerick, Pennsylvania-based Sedona acquired when it b...

CRM Report: MGM Grand Selects Epsilon

Database and Internet marketing provider Epsilon said Thursday that it has been chosen by MGM Grand, the famous Las Vegas hotel, to assist the hotel's CRM efforts. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company will help sift through data and craft Internet marketing for the hotel With 5,034-rooms, the MGM Grand is one of the world's largest hotels. I...

CRM Report: Oracle CRM Upgrade Set To Ship in May

Software giant Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) told its user groups Thursday that the planned upgrade of its CRM 11i version will be ready to ship by next month Dogged by slow development of its eBusiness Suite 11i software, Oracle had originally intended to release the entire application last fall, but opted instead for a two-stage release. The first ...

Six Major Airlines To Form B2B Exchange

Six major airline companies announced plans Thursday to form an Internet marketplace to handle transactions estimated at $32 billion (US$) per year in goods and services The founding airlines -- American, Continental, Delta, United, British Airways and Air France -- will invest a total of $50 million to start the venture, which will facilitate the ...

Peapod Comeback Stalled by New Class Action

Online grocer Peapod's attempt to rebound from a series of setbacks has been further stalled by a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of all investors who bought the company's stock between November 8, 1999 and March 16th of this year Wednesday's complaint alleges that Peapod executives said they were confident that the $15 (US$) million in cash o...

The Dot-Com Corporate Culture Clash

Online women's network iVillage should install a revolving door at its New York headquarters -- if it has not done so already -- to make it easier for top management to exit Over the past several days, chief operating officer Allison Abraham departed the company to become president of e-mail marketer Lifeminders.com, Inc., and chief financial offic...

Mexico Enacts Landmark E-Commerce Law

This week, the government of Mexico officially acknowledged the viability of e-commerce in the country by passing legislation that recognizes Internet purchase orders as binding contracts Previously, all contractual agreements in Mexico required a physical signature. The new reforms to Mexico's civil and commercial codes validate "electronic signat...

eToys at the Crossroads

eToys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETYS) was a nearly ubiquitous presence in the news this week, as the online toy seller launched a splashy, summer-themed marketing campaign in advance of a mixed quarterly report The e-tailer announced Thursday that net sales for its fiscal year ended March 31st reached $151 million (US$) -- up five-fold from $30 million one ye...

U.S. Postal Service Unveils Electronic Postmark

Deputy U.S. Postmaster General John Nolan announced Thursday that a new United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark (EPM) is now available Like a traditional postmark, the EPM provides third-party verification of the time and date a document is sent. In addition, the EPM offers an added level of security to electronic messaging, which includes...

FTC Cracks Down on Net Advertising Fraud

Ending the first U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case focusing on Internet auto lease ads, car dealers in Colorado, New York and Pennsylvania have settled charges that they ran deceptive lease advertisements on the Internet The FTC had charged the dealers and their principals with violations of federal law in failing to disclose the true costs ...

CRM Report: Broadway & Seymour Join Telera in CRM Agreement

Broadway & Seymour Group, a unit of research and engineering giant SAIC, said Thursday that it has signed a marketing agreement with communications ASP Telera to integrate its CRM solution with Telera's Intelligent Communications Network The Campbell, California-based Telera calls itself the first communications ASP designed for the convergence of ...

CRM Report: Broadway & Seymour Join Telera in CRM Agreement

Broadway & Seymour Group, a unit of research and engineering giant SAIC, said Thursday that it has signed a marketing agreement with communications ASP Telera to integrate its CRM solution with Telera's Intelligent Communications Network The Campbell, California-based Telera calls itself the first communications ASP designed for the convergence of ...

CRM Report: ShopNow.com Chooses Informatica

Palo Alto, California-based Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA) said Thursday that e-commerce consumer and business shopping portal ShopNow.com selected its Power Center data integration software to boost the company's CRM capabilities Informatica said the software helps companies leverage their data for business intelligence by integrating Web-...

CRM Report: Broadway & Seymour Join Telera in CRM Agreement

Broadway & Seymour Group, a unit of research and engineering giant SAIC, said Thursday that it has signed a marketing agreement with communications ASP Telera to integrate its CRM solution with Telera's Intelligent Communications Network The Campbell, California-based Telera calls itself the first communications ASP designed for the convergence of ...

CRM Report: Baan Gets Lift with European CRM Deal

After reporting slumping sales for the 10th consecutive quarter last week, Baan Company N.V. (Nasdaq: BAANF) said Thursday that CMG, a global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service provider with offices scattered throughout Europe, selected its CRM solution to support the company's telecommunications operation CMG will use the solu...

Phone.com Sues Geoworks in WAP Patent Dispute

Phone.com, a pioneer in developing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for mobile phones, has filed a pre-emptive suit against rival Geoworks Corporation over its '529 patent The suit, filed in federal court in San Jose, California, asks the court to "put an end to Geoworks' repeated and unjustified accusations that virtually the entire wireles...

MSNBC Sports Joins E-Commerce Game

MSNBC.com, the Internet's top-ranked general news site, announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with eFANshop to add online shopping to its Sports channel MSNBC.com is adding the e-commerce component to target some of the Web's most acquisitive users -- 20 to 40 year-old males.

UPS Crossing Bridge to New Economy

Tuesday's announcement that UPS will offer a new online electronic bill presentment and payment service for business-to-business (B2B) transactions marked yet another milestone in the company's drive to become an e-commerce monolith Through an alliance with Internet payment companies Bottomline Technologies and Princeton eCom, UPS Capital, the comp...

eBay Pushes into Europe After Beating the Street

Riding high on this week's favorable financial reports, online auctioneer eBay announced Wednesday that it will aggressively expand its already-booming European operations According to eBay, sales in the company's two current European markets, Great Britain and Germany, surged 84 percent to $86.92 million (US$) in the first quarter, while the numbe...

Xerox and Microsoft Team To Protect Digital Content

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to tackle copyright protection in the digital age Xerox announced Thursday that it is spinning off the Xerox Rights Management Group into a new company called ContentGuard, Inc. The new venture, funded in part by an investment from Microsoft, will deliver software solutio...

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