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In an effort to co-market the top two holiday season gift items, clothing giant Gap, Inc. and online toy seller eToys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETYS) are launching a holiday season promotional campaign Gap's two chains for children -- GapKids and babyGap -- will promote eToys on their Web sites and in their traditional stores. eToys will reciprocate by promot...
How will you do your Internet holiday shopping in 2002? Will it be sitting in your living room, remote control in hand? And how will GM parts dealers restock inventory? By walking up and down the parts aisles telling a handheld device how many replacements are needed? ...
As we wait for U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to announce his factual findings in the Microsoft antitrust case, it seems almost peculiar that Microsoft could be viewed as a monopoly. The whole concept of antitrust laws applying to Internet companies seems almost silly now that a year has passed in the Justice Department's case A year i...
In a vote of 423 to 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill late last week to prevent the imposition of sales taxes on global Internet sales The bill, driven through the House by Rep. Christopher Cox (R-California), mirrors similar legislation passed last year to prohibit local governments in the United States from taxing electronic comm...
According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. traditional financial services that fail to reinvent themselves quickly will not survive in a marketplace driven by Net-powered consumers The report added that, so far, many brick-and-mortar financial service companies have failed to take the new challenges spurred by burgeoning e-commerce serio...
Autodesk, Inc., a maker of software for architects, is targeting the B2B construction industry with the launch of its new Web site The new site, buzzsaw.com, makes it possible for construction groups to share specification sheets and blueprints on a building, allowing them to submit and review ongoing bids.
Online auction site eBay is reportedly taking part in a $22 million (US$) backing of business surplus trader TradeOut.com The San Jose, California-based online auctioneer is one of three companies to take a stake in the privately-held TradeOut.com. The other two investors are Benchmark Capital and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
It is being reported that major PC makers are responding to Microsoft's anti-trust troubles by busily working behind the scenes to develop a new line of Windows-less models In fact, some industry observers believe that Gateway, Inc. and AOL are secretly collaborating on a line of computers that won't utilize any Microsoft software at all.
European Commission ministers met in Belgium Friday in an attempt to agree upon a regulatory framework for electronic commerce from country to country The Commission, which acts as the European Union's executive body, addressed the fact that many countries have individual laws pertaining to e-commerce that are not necessarily compatible with intern...
As online auctions expand into veritable sideshows and novelty acts, BMW has placed its new sports utility vehicle on eBay in an effort to drive sales and build notoriety BMW's new X5 Sports Activity Vehicle went up for auction this morning, about 42 days before the vehicle will be widely available for sale through BMW's regular distribution channe...
Internet gift delivery business CarePackages.com has capitalized upon an untapped e-commerce niche with its Halloween-themed ScarePackage The package, which ranges in price from $9.95 (US$) to $15.95, is stuffed with Halloween brand-name goodies such as M&Ms, Kit Kat, Good 'N Plenty and Milk Duds, and is then delivered in a box that features a pict...
Domain registrar Network Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL) reported today that registrations shot up sharply in the third quarter, with international registrations helping to fuel a growth that is expected to continue well into the next century NSI registered a record 1.3 million new "dot-com," "dot-net," and "dot-org" names, up from 1.2 million in th...
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced today that it has acquired Entropic, Inc., a provider of software and toolkits for speech recognition, in an effort to integrate speech interaction technology into the Windows platform The acquisition comes at a time when the voice services technology market is about to expand dramatically. A report released...
According to published reports today, Japanese Internet investment company Softbank is planning to acquire an insolvent Japanese bank and turn it into the hub of an online financial services community Citing unnamed company executives, Asahi, the Japanese daily newspaper, reported that Softbank -- a $45 billion (US$) Internet incubator with an inte...
In sports, the superstars always seem to get the good press, while the solid utility players rarely get noticed That is, until they make an error.
Knowledge retrieval solutions provider Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY) has entered into a strategic support-related alliance with Linux vendor Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) to boost Linux-based open-source software resources available to developers Under the terms of the agreement, Verity will support the Red Hat Linux operating system (OS) distribution...
After years of declining sales and business reversals, Levi Strauss & Co. announced today that it will cease selling products on its Levi's and Dockers Web sites after Christmas The company decided that "during the past year, it became clear to us that the cost of running a truly world-class e-commerce business is unaffordable right now as we look ...
What does it take for an offline company to successfully launch an e-commerce site? A new report from Forrester Research, "Organizing for eCommerce," reinforces the emerging belief that brick-and-mortar corporations stand a better chance for success if the e-commerce initiative is organized as a dot-corp or dot-com. These independently managed busi...
Name-your-price retailer priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) reported a more than 15-fold increase in third-quarter revenue and a net loss that beat analysts' estimates on Thursday, but its stock price still fell in early trading today After the markets closed yesterday, priceline.com reported third-quarter revenue of $152.2 million (US$), a 1,551 percent...
At a hearing on Internet standards yesterday, a handful of e-commerce watchers told the U.S. Senate Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee to let the market decide how and where global electronic commerce matures The witnesses largely echoed the sentiments of countless other Internet executives and researchers who have been telling anyone who w...
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