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Two companies with widely divergent strategies are leading the charge to develop the market for selling used cars online One company, Autotrader, Inc., directs buyers to the closest dealer or private seller via a vast database of more than 1.5 million available used cars, while the other, iMotors, Inc., sells directly to the buyer.
Attorneys General in 17 states have launched undercover operations against online tobacco dealers with the latest results being four Web smoke vendors reportedly agreeing to ban sales to under-age buyers in Oregon According to a report by the Associated Press, Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers said that three dealers have signed agreements, which...
A new study from ActivMedia Research shows that even the most aggressive e-commerce marketing strategies are unable to compete step-for-step with the power of brand names and built-in customer loyalty The report, titled Fashion & Style: Building Consumer Loyalty Online, states that "Today's online consumers buy from names they know and trust in the...
Last week, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) announced plans to make a "virtual credit card" developed by Trintech (Nasdaq:TPPA) available on its lines of mobile phones. By pushing a button or issuing a voice command like "buy" or "pay," mobile users will be able to complete e-commerce transactions in seconds via their virtual cards The virtual credit card...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has earmarked $175 million (US$) for e-commerce initiatives in its fiscal year 2001 budget, but the proposal faces certain opposition in the Republican-led Congress As expected, the Clinton administration is positioning its Commerce Department budget proposal as necessary to carry out White House initiatives for e-co...
In the latest skirmish over the complex copyright issues surrounding music sales over the Internet, online digital music provider MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) filed a countersuit yesterday against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), alleging unfair business practices The suit, filed in a San Diego, California Superior Court, is in respo...
Auction portal Bidder's Edge, Inc. filed an antitrust lawsuit against eBay, Inc. yesterday, alleging that the giant online auctioneer had attempted monopolization, interfered with contractual relations, and utilized unfair practices This legal action comes less than a week after the U.S. Justice Department began investigating eBay to determine whet...
A recent poll of leading chief information officers (CIOs) at U.S.-based businesses shows that 65 percent consider e-commerce to have supplanted Y2K as their leading technology issue The survey by CIO Magazine also found that while 62 percent of CIOs believe that President Clinton should appoint a national security czar to worry about technology-re...
IBM seized the spotlight at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City last week by issuing a spate of announcements that could significantly affect e-commerce professionals and the open-source community Chief among the Linux-related disclosures was IBM's new initiative to foster open-source development. Big Blue will offer versions of its software at no...
A trio of firms today rolled out a product they say will allow would-be e-businesses to quickly establish seamless retail Internet sites Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), and InterWorld Corp., have teamed to develop "Retail Essentials," which, developers say, contains all of the tools that prospective and existing e-busin...
Apparel giant Polo Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) announced an agreement today with NBC affiliates ValueVision (Nasdaq: VVTV) and NBCi (Nasdaq: NBCI) to create a multimedia initiative that will center on its Polo.com Internet retailing site NBCi will give the new Ralph Lauren Media venture anchor status on its Snap.com site, while shopping network ValueVi...
Giant online auctioneer eBay, Inc. announced Friday that all items related to hate groups such as the Nazi Party or the Ku Klux Klan will have to meet specific criteria before qualifying for auction on its site According to a posting on its message board, eBay will not allow any listing that promotes hatred, violence or racial intolerance -- or lis...
Online customer support company Kana Communications (Nasdaq: KANA) and Internet business software provider Silknet Software (Nasdaq: SILK) announced today that they will merge in a stock deal valued at $4.2 billion (US$) Under the terms of the deal, the shareholders of the Manchester, New Hampshire-based Silknet will receive 0.83 percent shares of ...
Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Governor George W. Bush has shattered traditional fundraising records, but is reportedly dead last with online contributions Bush's GOP rival, Arizona Senator John McCain, and Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley have reaped major campaign donations through their Web sites, with McCain raising twice as much m...
United Parcel Service, Inc. announced today that it has formed a subsidiary that will perform back-end fulfillment functions for e-commerce companies and also help companies develop their supply chain management operations This direct foray into e-commerce by the world's largest package delivery service -- to be known as eVentures -- comes several ...
As the LinuxWorld Expo came to a close in New York City this week, computer book and operating system publisher Macmillan USA, Inc. announced that it has released the latest version of its distribution of the Linux open-source operating system Macmillan Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 7.0 offers, on top of its graphical tools for installation and disk partit...
Financial software giant Intuit, Inc. and TransPoint, a joint venture between Microsoft and First Data Corp., are teaming together to tackle one of the last bastions of paper-based commerce -- the sending of 63 billion bills yearly to small businesses and consumers The new service would allow consumers and small businesses to receive their bills on...
A UK information technology (IT) management consultancy says that companies should not waste the information benefits of their Y2K experiences, since the lessons learned from preparing for the December 31, 1999 date change can easily be applied to the world of e-commerce The firm, Insight Consulting, says that there is a definite need for businesse...
In a deal valued at over $800 million (US$) in cash and stock, open-source solutions provider VA Linux Systems announced the acquisition Thursday of Andover.Net, a company that owns several Linux and open-source related information sites The deal, announced at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City, will add significant value to the VA Linux portfoli...
In July of 1998, after spearheading the effort to transform MSNBC into a leading online news service, Peter Neupert traded his executive office at Microsoft for a new challenge as President and CEO of Drugstore.com In the following exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Neupert discusses his decision to leap into the e-commerce game, the hi...
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