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America Online announced today that it has acquired a stake in online rewards and direct marketing company Netcentives (Nasdaq: NCNT) and that it will apply the company's services to two key e-commerce bonus programs The San Francisco, California-based Netcentives will provide the underlying infrastructure for AOL AAdvantage, a frequent-flyer progr...
Dash.com CEO Daniel Kaufman, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Internet privacy panel, is urging his colleagues to back a plan to give online consumers access to information that is collected about them "Many consumers hesitate to participate in e-commerce opportunities because they fear they will leave a trail of personal information...
According to a report released today by consulting firm Arthur Andersen, fewer than 25 percent of senior management executives at global financial services companies rate e-commerce high on their priority lists The report, titled "Thriving in the new economy: perception vs. reality," found that few companies are making e-commerce an integral part o...
Despite quadrupling its third quarter sales, online toy seller eToys, Inc. has rattled its shareholders' nerves by continuing to post significant losses eToys went public in May 1999 at $20 (US$) a share, and the stock zoomed to $76.56 on its first day of trading. The share price hit a high of $86 in October 1999 before plunging to $16.87 on Thursd...
One of the major messages from the holiday shopping season is that e-tailers must develop better customer service capabilities. Today, eFusion, Inc. -- a start-up company from Beaverton, Oregon -- introduced a new "push-to-talk" service that allows representatives at e-commerce firms to talk to shoppers in real time "This is a brand new service tha...
If 1999 was the year that non-profitable e-commerce companies got a free ride from Wall Street, a new report from Forrester Research shows that 2000 is proving to be the end of the line "Financial markets exasperated with non-existent online profits will turn a deaf ear to persistent 'investment mode' rhetoric and soundly punish merchants who bleed...
Linux-based computer system manufacturer EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZE) and online auctioneer iDEAL International, Inc. announced a deal Thursday to offer Linux-related products to patrons of the DealDeal.com business-to-consumer (B2C) auction site The deal calls for the EBIZ e-commerce Web site, TheLinuxStore.com, to add computers, periphe...
E-commerce solutions provider BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced Thursday that it plans to work with Nokia to create a new standards-based solution for building wireless e-commerce applications The companies will integrate BEA's WebLogic Server and Nokia's WAP Server 1.0 products. The new solution will enable e-commerce developers and indep...
Online automobile buying network Autobytel.com (Nasdaq:ABTL) revealed plans to launch further online services for car-buyers in Europe this year, as it boosted its revenues from e-commerce in the fourth quarter ended December 31st, 1999 With alliances already in Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom and Sweden, Autobytel Europe plans to launch simil...
The U.S. government reportedly will take its concerns about China's proposed encryption disclosure rules to the six-day World Economic Forum conference getting underway in Davos, Switzerland According to a Reuters report, the U.S. will urge China to explain the new regulations on encryption technology, which are due to come into effect on Monday.
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In what is starting to become the Internet's equivalent of the old brick-and-mortar cry of "location, location, location," e-commerce moving firm Move.com is paying $40 million (US$) to popular portal AltaVista for preferred space on their site The deal follows closely on the heels of Drugstore.com and auto-seller Greenlight.com paying a combined $...
Earlier this week, when the Chinese government announced that it was imposing yet more regulations on the Internet and the development of e-commerce, a bitter chill was felt across the vast new economy One set of new rules will make it easier for the Chinese government to censor online content, while a separate set of rules will make it harder for ...
During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple Computer launched the Macintosh with an ad that many advertising aficionados consider to be the best ever created. Since that time, daring companies have viewed the Super Bowl as the perfect venue at which to launch an "impact" product or service The Super Bowl and the audacious world of dot-com companies now seem ...
Simon Wright, the chief financial officer of Virgin Megastore, said this week that music distribution over the Internet could erode his company's profits enough to drive it out of the business Wright's comments came in response to the proposed merger of Time Warner's Music Group and EMI. He is concerned that such mergers could hasten online record ...
As consumer fears about privacy invasion threaten to stall the considerable growth of e-commerce, a lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court Thursday alleging that Internet advertising firm DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) has obtained and sold the personal information of online users The suit, filed on behalf of Harriet Judnick and the citizens of...
Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA) has announced a distribution, marketing and support agreement with Linux vendor Red Hat, Inc Under the terms of the agreement -- which builds upon an established relationship -- Red Hat will bundle enterprise management solutions produced by Computer Associates with the Enterprise Edition packages of its distrib...
Many e-tailers across the industry are growing concerned that would-be buyers of high-tech and high-ticket items are backing away from online purchases because of concerns about follow-up service and a lack of long-term warranties In response, a number of online companies are devoting their efforts to selling and managing extended warranties on all...
E-Stamp Corporation (Nasdaq: ESTM) announced today that it will begin a market trial of international Internet postage in the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta. Starting in early February, Canada Post Corporation will begin offering Internet postage services through E-Stamp The Calgary market trial is E-Stamp's first step toward offering its Intern...
eBay, Inc. has lined up Hong Kong-based China.com (Nasdaq: CHINA) to help market its new eBay Chinatown trading community to Asian users eBay, with its brand firmly established in the United States, hopes to improve its international recognition by taking advantage of the reach that China.com has established across Asia. eBay Chinatown features Asi...
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