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If there is any one thing that many Internet businesses have not considered in their business plans, it could be described simply as "limitations." Thinking that the pool of Internet users is never-ending and the possibilities exist for sales volume without a cap, many businesses have been near-sighted in their approach to e-commerce.
It has been eight months since toy giant Mattel, Inc. put on a dog and pony show for stock analysts, touting ambitious plans to storm cyberspace At the time, Mattel CEO Jill Barad bragged that in three to five years, Mattel.com would become a billion-dollar (US$) business with a 70 percent profit margin.
According to figures released by Nielsen//NetRatings on Thursday, toy sites, comparison sites and Net malls saw their traffic soar an average of 70 percent from the first week in November through the month's final week The results showed positive gains in all retail categories, with holiday shopping experiencing an overall traffic gain of 11 percen...
Yesterday, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce David Aaron reported that ministers at the WTO meeting in Seattle, Washington had agreed to keep the Internet tax-free, probably well into next year The Net has been officially, if temporarily, free of duties since 1998, and can now, with the impending formal agreement among nations, evolve without varying...
The stock of online broadcaster NetRadio (Nasdaq: NETR) climbed nearly 29 percent on Tuesday, gaining 2-5/16 to 10-3/8 after the company announced what looks to be a significant deal with Microsoft. Under the terms of the deal, NetRadio's 120 channels of music and information will be offered in Microsoft's Windows Media format. NetRadio will be prominently featured on Microsoft's windowsmedia.com site...
Shares of Bid.com (Nasdaq: BIDS), a Canadian auction service, gained more than 27 percent on Wednesday, climbing 1-9/32 to 6 as rumors began to circulate on online message boards about the possibility of the company being acquired. Bid.com would be a relatively inexpensive takeover target for a company like eBay. Even after Wednesday's gain, the company is worth only about $296 million, and the stock is well off its 52-week high of 22-5/8...
Online music company Launch Media, Inc. has inked a deal with EMI Recorded Music to showcase EMI's vast inventory of music videos In return, the London-based EMI -- a unit of EMI Group PLC -- will get a small share of Launch's advertising revenue, as well as about a one percent stake in the Santa Monica, California-based company.
In a direct reply to Amazon.com's launch of a home-improvement section earlier this month, America Online and HomeWarehouse.com announced an agreement Wednesday that will put home-improvement products and expert information on AOL's shopping sites HomeWarehouse.com will appear as major tenant in AOL's Home Improvement and Home Appliances areas at S...
In an effort to maximize its customers' ability to download products quickly and efficiently, Internet software retailer Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) will market digital subscriber line (DSL) service from NorthPoint Communications (Nasdaq: NPNT) on its Web site Beyond.com will add a link from its site to NorthPoint's DSL service qualification tool, wh...
In the mad scramble to be the flashiest, biggest, and most dynamic Web site in cyberspace, many retailers are losing sight of the most important prize - the bottom line On the surface, things are looking up. Amazon.com, for example, reported that last Friday's sales were up 150 percent over last year.
Privacy has been a hot topic for e-commerce companies lately, but there is now an even hotter "P" buzzword rattling throughout the industry: "Personalization." More than ever, companies are responding to research data showing that customers want e-commerce tools with a personal touch.
A variant of the notorious ExploreZip worm hit the Internet this week, infecting corporate systems and threatening holiday shoppers who are moving online for a record e-commerce shopping season Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), and other utility software vendors such as Trend Micro, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC) and Central Command, Inc., have issued warnings a...
America Online (NYSE: AOL) and job search/recruitment site Monster.com announced today that they have forged a four-year, exclusive $100 million (US$) deal to offer Monster.com's career-management resources to AOL users across seven AOL brands Under the terms of the deal, Monster.com will become the exclusive career-search service offered to AOL's ...
According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., pressure from consumer advocates will force lawmakers to pursue a privacy bill of rights in 12 to 18 months "To avoid regulation, companies must convince the FTC that substantial progress has been made toward the fair information principles by the time it next examines the issue in March of 200...
Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) grabbed media headlines and international attention when its high profile August IPO took the Linux movement into a new arena The Durham, North Carolina-based provider of Linux software solutions has also benefited from the recent ruling in the Microsoft antitrust trial that branded the software titan a monopoly.
Amazon.com announced today that a U.S. federal district judge has granted a preliminary injunction against barnesandnoble.com in a patent battle between the rival online book sellers The preliminary injunction bars barnesandnoble.com from using what Amazon alleges is a "copycat version" of the 1-Click technology that was first introduced by the com...
Telecommunications giant AT&T has signed an agreement with college-oriented Web portal edu.com that will market AT&T's communications services to the site's undergraduate and graduate student users AT&T will offer its wireless, long distance, Internet access and calling card services to edu.com's membership base, and the companies will conduct a jo...
In an effort to support the development of Linux-based products for enterprise-level business, Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA) has announced that it is establishing the CA Enterprise Linux Advisory Council The Council, a business initiative that will focus on identifying and defining new projects and products, will work with Computer Associate...
Telecommunications giant AT&T has signed an agreement with college-oriented Web portal edu.com that will market AT&T's communications services to the site's undergraduate and graduate student users AT&T will offer its wireless, long distance, Internet access and calling card services to edu.com's membership base, and the companies will conduct a jo...
In an effort to enhance its "AOL Anywhere" strategy, America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it has acquired Seattle, Washington-based Tegic Communications for an undisclosed sum The privately-held Tegic is a text entry provider for wireless telephones and other mobile devices, and allows users to send e-mail, instant messages and other tex...
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