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Survey results from PC Data Online and Ernst & Young indicate that Internet buying increased in October for the second consecutive month, removing any doubt that the 1999 holiday gift-buying season has arrived "Our October numbers confirm the jump in both shopping and buying in September was no fluke," said Cameron Meierhoefer, Internet research an...
Genealogy.com announced today that it will assist in providing an online resource to track the journeys of millions of immigrants who came to America at New York Harbor's Ellis Island The Fremont, California-based company signed a sponsorship agreement with The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. for the development of a Web site to com...
Former Microsoft executive Karl Jacob has launched a Web site that allows people to hold private conversations via the telephone without having to share their telephone numbers Keen.com has become a marketplace for conversation that allows celebrities, experts or anyone else to list their qualifications and availability for chats at per-minute pric...
European online auctioneer QXL.com PLC announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with AOL Germany to become the premium partner of the online service provider To exploit the entertainment value of auctions, QXL.com said that it will also manage editorial features such as 'Deal of the Day' on various AOL Germany pages to promote the online aucti...
Amazon.com continued a frenetic week of activity today by announcing that it will create a co-branded credit card with Internet credit card issuer NextCard that could generate up to $150 million (US$) in fees for the online retail giant The five-year deal also provides Amazon with a warrant to acquire up to 4.4 million shares of NextCard, the creat...
According to Washington-based research firm The Strategis Group, more than 100 million Americans are using the Internet, and getting smarter and faster as they surf Another group, the Computer Industry Almanac, reports that more than 110 million Americans will be using the Internet by the end of this year, accounting for 43 percent of the world's t...
Unfazed by impending restrictions to foreign investment, Boston, Massachusetts-based International Data Group (IDG) announced today that it will pour much of a $100 million (US$) risk fund into Internet sites in China IDG intends to slip through a gray area in current restrictions by investing in application services providers (ASPs) rather than co...
Just as ancient ships were misguided to a rocky death, the seductive siren song of Internet research can muddy the waters of e-commerce Over the past few weeks, we've seen a flood of research reports and Internet surveys supplied by a mix of respectable research firms and Internet wannabes who are struggling to get attention on the hot Internet new...
In the wake of the landmark ruling that branded Microsoft a monopoly, information and developer resource Web sites are moving into the market space for Linux-based solutions Project Linux, for example, has launched a new site that features areas for both the Linux-curious and the Linux-experienced.
Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and a handful of Internet heavyweights have formed the Internet Policy Institute to examine Internet issues and the Web's impact on society The new "think tank" will kick off its efforts with a research project on the Internet's economic impact and an initiative designed to educate the presidential candidates on In...
British Telecommunications PLC, the United Kingdom's dominant telephone and Internet carrier, announced a deal today with San Francisco, California-based LookSmart,Inc., to launch Internet portal services in Europe and Asia Under the equal ownership joint venture, BT and LookSmart will create country-specific Web navigation sites based on search si...
Leading online retailer Amazon.com(NYSE: AMZN) has taken a giant step away from its original incarnation as an online bookseller by announcing the launch of home improvement, software, video game and gift idea stores. Richard Chin, Amazon's director of product development, told the E-Commerce Times that the corporate plan has always been to offer a wide range of items, despite public perception to the contrary.
Shares of United Parcel Service, Inc. skyrocketed as much as 40 percent in the company's first day of trading today, raising $5.47 billion (US$) in the largest initial stock sale in history Many industry observers feel that the price of UPS' stock is being driven through the stratosphere because the company is in a unique position to cash in on the...
E-tail success usually comes when a company outdoes its adversaries with a hard-hitting mix of product, price and ease-of-use It also comes when a company figures out a way to service an under-served market. That's why the good news for e-tailers everywhere is that there is an age group that has not been fully served on the Web.
Prodigy Communications Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy out rival FlashNet Communications for stock valued at about $120 million (US$) The acquisition will beef up the White Plains, New York-based online service provider's existing subscriber base of 1.2 million subscribers by 244,000 and give it more clout in the e-commerce aren...
Concentric Network Corp. announced today that it will begin offering Office 2000 software via the Internet in early 2000 Industry observers point out that this move, part of a pilot program launched by Microsoft Corp., marks the beginning of a new era for Microsoft. The software giant now appears to be quickly adapting to the concept of Internet-dr...
Just days after Intel chief executive officer Craig Barret reiterated his company's determination to invest in China, the country has drafted rules that would formally ban foreign investment in the Internet Although China's Internet policies have been difficult for foreign investors to interpret over the past few years, the new guidelines would cle...
Music giant Universal Music Group said today that it is forming a new record label that will "uniquely harness the strength and reach of the Internet," with America Online (NYSE: AOL) and others serving as key strategic partners The new label will be called Jimmy and Doug's Farm Club, and reflects the combined names of Jimmy Iovine, Co-Chairman of ...
Technical services provider Linuxcare, Inc. has certified key Linux distributions to run on the Cubix multi-server Density series The move, coming on the heels of the Microsoft antitrust ruling, could add fuel to the already-significant Linux expansion into the online business arena.
In a new poll by @plan (NASDAQ: APLN), nearly two-thirds of people using the Internet say that online privacy should be market-regulated, rather than legislated The @plan poll shows that consumers on both sides of the political fence feel the Internet community should police itself. Nearly 60 percent of registered Democrats and more than 70 percent...
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