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Though overshadowed by word of Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) first-ever profits, the e-tailer's offer of free shipping on large orders may have an even greater impact on the e-commerce landscape, according to analysts. ...
Online shoppers in the United States spent US$5.7 billion during the month of December, a 14 percent increase over 2000 levels, according to a report released Thursday by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) and Greenfield Online. ...
There is probably no such thing as a bad e-commerce customer. But which ones are the best, the most likely to take an e-tailer into the promised land of perpetual profits? ...
E-commerce software firms continued their struggle for profitability in a slowing economy as both Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) and Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) reported quarterly losses and sharply lower sales on Tuesday. ...
By its nature, January is a month of optimism. The "next year" in the phrase "wait until next year" has arrived. Of course, there's justified optimism and then there's wishful thinking ...
Bellwether e-tailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) delivered its first-ever profit when it reported fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, as international growth propelled it past the US$1 billion sales mark for the first time. ...
Looking to grab a share of the US$7 billion per year timeshare industry, Internet auction giant EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) said Monday it will launch a marketplace exclusively for buying and selling the vacation getaways. ...
Although e-commerce purchasing and Internet use are divided almost evenly among men and women in the United States, global Web use continues to be dominated by men, according to a Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) report issued Thursday. ...
Nearly half of all large U.S. corporations are now using the Internet to cut down on their supply costs, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). ...
The year-end jobs report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas contained mostly bleak news. During 2001, more than 100,000 dot-com positions were lost amid an economic shakeout that cost two million U.S. workers their jobs ...
Recently someone asked what seemed a pretty straightforward question. He had a Web site that advertised that he breeds and sells show dogs. Through that site, he has made initial contact with several people who, after meeting him offline, have bought dogs from him. In other words, they became customers. ...
E*Trade Group (NYSE: ET) on Monday reported fourth-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations as the online broker used diversified product offerings and cost-cutting measures to record its sixth consecutive profitable quarter. ...
A California bankrutpcy court has cleared the way for online grocer Webvan to liquidate its remaining assets, a process that should bring closure to the high-profile dot-com failure ...
The folks at EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) in Japan spent much of Friday denying rumors that the Japanese arms of two companies are about to merge. Seems a British newspaper reported as much, quoting a high-ranking executive at one of the firms ...
Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said it has started to acquire shares of HotJobs (Nasdaq: HOTJ) under the terms of the takeover agreement announced last month. ...
In yet another sign that the dot-com shakeout is not over, venerable tech research firm Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR), said Thursday that it is cutting more than 20 percent of its workforce. ...
Sometime over the holidays, Henry Blodget packed up his box and officially left Merrill Lynch, where he had been the lead Internet stock analyst. Blodget, who some pundits have all but blamed for single-handedly causing the dot-com bubble, has left behind a life of touting Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay and others for greener pastures ...
Further expanding its reach, this time into the employee benefits field, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) said Wednesday it would develop personalized Web portals for the 16 million customers of health care and retirement benefits giant Cigna (NYSE: CI). ...
Online spending reached US$13.8 billion during the 2001 holiday season, a 15 percent increase over the year before, according to a report from Harris Interactive (Nasdaq: HPOL), Goldman Sachs and Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT). ...
Amid all the bumps in the road for e-commerce in 2001, few sectors were shaken as hard as companies in the online grocery market. ...
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