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Less than a week after launching a localized Tripod online community site in Japan, Internet network Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) announced that it has raised $32 million (US$) from a major Japanese media company The Waltham, Massachusetts-based network said that Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd. invested in the Lycos Japan venture and became a par...
According to a new study by investment firm U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, the frenetic pace of online trading is slowing despite the fact that more people are participating Online brokerages added 1.1 million new accounts in the third quarter, bucking the cyclical slowdown that the trading business usually sees in that period. However, the overall nu...
Running ads on Web sites used to be for big companies with big advertising budgets. Now that it's free, it's anybody's game Most start-up founders live off credit cards and macaroni-and-cheese dinners and can only dream of treating their employees to a grand evening out. Not Bill Lohse. Last June the chairman and CEO of SmartAge shepherded 22 emplo...
With Halloween behind us, holiday shopping is about to break. Marketing managers ate-tailers around the world are wringing their hands and watching their click-throughs. Careers across hundreds of e-tailers may hang in the balance. With that sobering thought in mind, I decided to study some Forrester Research survey results of "likely" places that...
The U.S. Postal Service, once considered a potential "victim" of the Internet's speed and convenience, has announced a new system to help consumers hurdle one of the last barriers to online shopping -- merchandise returns The U.S. Postal Service, once considered a potential "victim" of the Internet's speed and convenience, has announced a new syste...
Federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released late Friday afternoon a much-anticipated decision in which Microsoft was determined to be operating as a monopoly. This ruling is expected to have a tremendous impact on the future of Microsoft, as well as on the direction of the global computer software industry "Microsoft has demonstrated that it wil...
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and AT&T found themselves traveling down different legal paths this week, as Amazon settled a lawsuit out of court while AT&T found itself arguing to overturn a court decision that would force it to open its cable lines to other Internet service providers The Seattle, Washington-based Amazon was on the defending end of a s...
Recognizing e-businesses' concerns about privacy and security, professional services firm Ernst & Young has launched the Center for Trust Online (CTO) to foster trust and confidence in electronic commerce Ernst & Young contracted Technometrica, Inc. to conduct a consumer trust survey of 966 adults and 51 randomly-selected Fortune 500 companies. The...
Earlier this week, when RealNetworks, Inc. admitted that its software had been secretly gathering and transmitting personal information about consumers' listening habits, the company gave privacy advocates a big bone to chew on Even though the Seattle, Washington-based company said Tuesday that it would issue a software patch for users of its RealJ...
Snap.com and Xoom.com announced today that they have signed a three-year, $75 million (US$) agreement with Healthgate Data Corp., a health and medical resource site The companies say that the deal will make HealthGate the primary anchor tenant in seven co-branded centers within Snap's Health Channel and calls for Xoom to offerco-branded e-commerce ...
EBIZ Enterprises, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of Linux-based computer systems, has re-designed and re-launched itse-commerce Web site, TheLinuxStore.com, and boosted online offerings with the added value of the recently acquired JustLinux.com open-source community site. Pushing to be the "Everything Linux" stop online, TheLinuxStore now offers e-commerce patrons the choice of purchasing not only computers, peripherals and software, but also books, "GeekGear," and even Penguin brand peppermints.
Internet heavyweight Yahoo! announced agreements today with broadband Internet access providers Covad (Nasdaq: COVD) and NorthPoint (Nasdaq: NPNT) that will attempt to encourage Internet users to adopt DSL (digital subscriber line) broadband access Additionally, Yahoo! and NorthPoint will develop, market and distribute a co-branded My Yahoo! servic...
Online cosmetics Web site gloss.com's 35-year-old co-founder Sarah Kugelman has been moving at warp speed for months In March, the cosmetics model that Kugelman had envisioned in her mind for four years became a reality -- thanks to $4.75 million (US$) in seed money from Silicon Valley venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Matrix Part...
The daily barrage of e-commerce developments can make one dizzy, as the entire developed world embraces the Internet at a fever pitch It's seeping into all aspects of our lives. First our shopping went online. Then our stock portfolios. Now it has entered our homes, sneaking into our appliances and our food.
Security solutions provider Diversinet Corp. (Nasdaq: DVNT) has expanded its strategic licensing agreement with Research In Motion Ltd. (Nasdaq: RIMM), accelerating its presence in the burgeoning wireless e-commerce arena Under the terms of the agreement, announced at the Wireless Internet 99 show, Diversinet's Passport technology will be incorpora...
The e-business revolution has taken off, and companies are looking to provide the most secure and efficient e-commerce capabilities Companies looking to become proficient ine-commerce want the best new technologies that bring them closer to their customers and make supplier interactions more efficient.
Not a day goes by without the press reporting yet another story about a small start-up that has suddenly exploded into the e-commerce stratosphere. From literally nowhere, a company appears, gobbles up an untapped market and becomes an IPO Cinderella Welcome to the new Gold Rush, my friends.
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and AT&T found themselves traveling down different legal paths this week, as Amazon settled a lawsuit out of court while AT&T found itself arguing to overturn a court decision that would force it to open its cable lines to other Internet service providers The Seattle, Washington-based Amazon was on the defending end of a s...
The U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee convened yesterday to examine ways to crack down on mass junk mailers and prevent such so-called "spam" from thwarting efforts to build consumer confidence in electronic commerce As it considers an anti-spam bill introduced by Rep. Heather Wilson (R-New Mexico), the committee is consulting a hand...
Dun and Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB), the well-known provider of business-to-business credit, marketing and purchasing information, is launching eccelerate.com to bring online businesses into its orbit "This is a logical next step for D & B," said Lynn Harvey, senior analyst, Information Assets, Patricia Seybold Group, "because with the explosion of e-com...
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