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Though they attract a large percentage of the online buying audience, e-tail giants like Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) do not necessarily compete directly against other e-tailers, according to a new report from Nielsen//NetRatings ...
In a business traditionally built on partnerships and cooperation, Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) seems bent on making more enemies than friends of late ...
Discount brokerage Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCH) has announced it will lay off 1,800 more workers, and pure-play competitor Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) plans to alter its pricing structure, as online brokerages scramble to deal with a substantial slowdown in business. ...
Six months after Buy.com took a page from Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) by forming an e-commerce outsourcing division, the company has landed its first customer, online movie ticketing site Fandango. ...
A publicly traded company that specializes in adult-content Web sites said it has bid to buy most of the assets of long-silent and bankrupt music-swapping site Napster. ...
In a last-ditch effort at an image makeover last year, urban delivery service Kozmo.com changed its name to plain old Kozmo. The move did not work -- within a few months, Kozmo was no more -- but it highlighted the prevailing mood of that time. Even true dot-coms were distancing themselves from the Internet label. ...
It is widely known that Google has become a dominant player in the search engine space. Founded in September 1998, the company is at least three years younger than most of its competitors but already has surpassed its rivals in terms of popularity. ...
Use of the Internet to conduct business-to-business (B2B) transactions grew substantially in the second quarter, possibly signaling the early stages of economic recovery, according to a report from Forrester Research and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). ...
For a while, dot-com death watches were all the rage. Then even those got a bit stale. After all, how many times can you whistle with astonishment at how much venture capital a company burned through in a short time? ...
Amazon.com has sued partner Expedia, claiming the travel site has not lived up to its end of a deal struck almost exactly a year ago between the two online companies. ...
E-commerce players often seem to be playing a game of follow the leader, especially when it comes to site design and operations. And while Amazon.com and eBay have enough imitators to keep them flattered indefinitely, other outstanding e-commerce sites also have their share of admirers. These sites score high marks for a variety of reasons and have helped set the standard for e-commerce of the future.
Pushing into yet another product category, Amazon.com has signed a multiyear partnership with office supply giant Office Depot. ...
At long last, everybody's favorite German media conglomerate, Bertelsmann, has swallowed hard and admitted that it bit off a lot more than it could chew on the Internet ...
EBay Real Estate said its "land marketplace" has met with strong demand, with 15,000 parcels of property sold since the offering debuted last year. According to eBay, a parcel of land is sold through its site every 45 minutes. ...
Every code-hogging, patent suit-filing corporation that thinks it has cornered the world on smarts got a reminder this week that it's not always smart to not share your toys ...
Though they seem to be everywhere on the Internet, pop-up advertisements are used by less than 10 percent of all companies that advertise online, according to a report from Nielsen//NetRatings ...
In an effort to boost user adoption of its portable e-wallet system, called "MSN Wallet," Microsoft has announced that it will phase out its Passport Express Purchase system over the next several months. ...
Two new reports have predicted several more years of sustained growth for e-commerce, as well as a strong 2002 holiday season, as online shoppers search for bargains in a languishing economy. ...
If it is true that you get what you pay for, is free Internet access really worth nothing? ...
It's one of those stories that everyone loves to tell. EBay, as the legend goes, became a billion-dollar global powerhouse after starting off as a place where Pierre Omidyar's wife could sell and buy Pez dispensers ...
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