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Caldera Systems, Inc. officially launched its OpenLinux eServer 2.3 today, as the Linux Business Expo kicked off at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada The product offering, along with a new Web site, is part of a strategic "Linux for ebusiness" thrust for the company.
Online brokers Charles Schwab, Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) and TD Waterhouse (NYSE: TWE) announced today that they will join three prominent Internet venture capital firms to open an Internet-based investment bank by early next year The companies say that the yet-to-be-named bank will be based in Silicon Valley and will focus on initial public offeri...
Destination site AltaVista, which has Internet holding company CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) as its majority shareholder, announced today that it has signed up 800,000 users for free Internet access in the first three months of the service This enrollment makes AltaVista equivalent to the seventh-largest Internet service provider in the United States.
While there has been much ado about how e-commerce is re-shaping the lives of consumers, the advent of business-to-business purchasing has been largely overlooked With new software, technology and online site operators, there is great potential for small companies to expedite their small purchases and compete with the big players.
As the battle for Web survival intensifies, e-tailers are finding it increasingly necessary to ask themselves a most fundamental question: What do online customers really want? It is a tough question to answer, particularly given that online commerce is still in its formative stages and many of the shoppers are new to the medium.
Lost amid the hoopla and hyperbole of the e-commerce explosion is the nagging reality that few e-businesspeople seem to know how and when they are going to make a profit The worry is valid, particularly in light of recent research from GartnerGroup showing that 75 percent of all e-business startups will fail.
Earlier this week, privacy advocates testified before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and asked it to stop Web sites from tracking and compiling the visits of their users Additionally, these advocates demanded that the FTC devise a way to protect Web surfers from unwanted intrusions on their privacy like the one that RealNetworks, Inc. admitted t...
Web portal Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) is attempting to cash in on a lucrative e-tail niche by lending its name to a new computer and software retail site The partnership with Virtual Technology Corp. will target both business customers and consumers, and offer more than 60,000 hardware products, 100,000 software titles, 25,000 office products and t...
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, I never would have predicted that Internet usage would become completely mainstream by November 1999 Internet time, which is roughly judged to move at four times the normal rate of business progress, has rushed us to a place where the average Internet user looks almost exactly the same as the avera...
Linux software vendor Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) has entered into a new strategic agreement with RSA Security, Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS) to enhance security for professional users of the Red Hat Linux OS package The move comes as members of both the open-source community and the professional Linux world are gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada at COMDEX for ...
Office supply superstore Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) announced today that it has sold a five percent stake in its e-commerce unit and has appointed an advisory board to guide it toward its goal of $1 billion (US$) in online sales by the year 2003 The Framingham, Massachusetts-based superstore chain said that eBay President Meg Whitman, a current m...
About three quarters of new car dealers in the United States have Web sites, and that number is expected to grow to nearly 90 percent during the next six months The National Automobile Dealers Association, which released the results of its online retailer survey yesterday, said the number of online auto dealerships has grown nearly 25 percent over ...
In an apparent attempt to counter America Online's recent brick-and-mortar alliances, Microsoft announced yesterday that it has signed a five-year pact with Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack to deliver online service to consumers through the chain's 7,000 outlets According to Microsoft, the companies will establish a "store within a store" network across t...
Electronic commerce is shaking up a lot more than consumer buying trends lately, as high salaries and unlimited growth potential are allowing e-businesses to lure the best of the best from the brick-and-mortar business world. Almost daily, accomplished executives in various fields are joining the electronic commerce revolution Earlier this week, Se...
Linux software vendor Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) has expanded its Internet-centric strategic partnership with Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's second largest software company and provider of Linux-based database solutions Central to the latest agreement is a new version of the Red Hat Linux OS package that is specifically designed to acce...
Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL), the nation's largest personal property insurance company, announced yesterday that it plans to cut back its call centers and non-sales staffs and replace some of those functions with direct-response call centers and the Internet Allstate will invest in new agent and claim technology, as well as new online marketing and a...
The U.S. Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce received a proposal from a broad coalition of anti-tax advocates yesterday that would lump general telecommunications taxes in with the Internet taxes that many politicians and consumer groups now oppose The E-Freedom Coalition, which consists of the Heritage Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise...
When giant e-tailer Amazon.com announced Monday that it would be hawking everything from software to home improvement items, its stock shot up more than $13 (US$) a share, closing at $78 However, reality set in on Tuesday. By the end of the day, Amazon's stock lost more than 50 percent of what it had gained the day before.
Contracts are a fundamental part of our society. Without exception, you enter into a contract in one form or another on a daily basis The process is so familiar as to be second nature -- the document, be it a credit card slip or contract of sale for a new car, is put in front of you and you sign it. Nothing fancy, just your signature and a deal has...
As the Internet continues its global expansion, many companies are finding that localized e-services are making the most inroads with consumers While mega-sites such as Amazon.com offer attractive discounted prices and huge selections of goods, local Internet sites are betting that customers are also looking for convenience and rapid delivery. In f...
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