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Online auctioneer eBay has expanded into the fixed-price marketplace by agreeing to purchase person-to-person Web marketplace Half.com in a stock deal valued at US$350 million. Half.com sellers simply enter the ISBN code for a book or a UPC code for a CD, video or movie, describe the condition ...
Network Security Technologies, Inc. announced the discovery Thursday of destructive software that has been clandestinely implanted into thousands of business and home computers. The Herndon, Virginia-based company says the software is secretly loaded on computers when an unsuspected user opens ...
Originally published on April 19, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. Just when it seemed that two Internet grocers were headed for the dot-com chopping block, a couple of food industry giants swooped in and saved the day with huge cash infusions.
Originally published on March 22, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. A growing number of investors have come to believe that pure-play e-commerce companies are burning their cash at an incredibly rapid rate and that these firms will be forced to dilute their outstanding shares w...
Originally published on March 6, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. Recently, it has been reported that Russia is on the verge of cashing in on a growing boom in Internet use and e-commerce, if only -- we are told -- authorities would seize the opportunity and do away with bureau...
Originally published on March 1, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. This week, a long-overdue precedent was set when the operator of a sports gambling Web site was convicted in the first case of its kind to go to trial.
Originally published on February 25, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. In what has become a persistent problem for popular Internet sites of late, the National Discount Brokers Group reported that its stock-trading Web site was shut down for more than an hour Thursday as a resu...
Originally published on February 23, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow in its ongoing antitrust trial yesterday by comparing the software company to John D. Rockefeller's 19th century Standard ...
Originally published on February 16, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. In an effort to jump-start e-commerce, the European Commission (EC) has warned European Union (EU) member governments that they must foster competition for local telephone lines that connect homes and busines...
Just one day after a hacker attack on Yahoo! shut the giant portal down for several hours, several leading e-tail sites were similarly affected by what appears to be an orchestrated, Web-wide act of sabotage. At last count Tuesday, Amazon.com, Buy.com and online auctioneer eBay had joined CNN.co...
United Parcel Service, Inc. announced today that it has formed a subsidiary that will perform back-end fulfillment functions for e-commerce companies and also help companies develop their supply chain management operations. This direct foray into e-commerce by the world's largest package deliver...
Originally published on February 4, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating online auctioneer eBay, Inc. to determine whether its efforts to block price comparison search software from probing its Web site are anti-competitive.
IBM announced yesterday that a six-month experiment with five major record labels has successfully emulated a traditional music store online. According to the company, the store allows music to be downloaded, but prevents illegal copying. The experiment, known as AlbumDirect, involved music gian...
The Chinese government is introducing new regulations that many analysts fear will put a chill on e-commerce in the world's most populous country. According to lawyers and regulators, one set of rules will make it easier for the government to censor online content, while a separate set of rules...
Two former executives of iVillage, Inc. filed separate lawsuits against the popular Web site Friday, alleging that the company lured them from established companies with promises of lucrative compensation packages that never materialized. "This is a case in which a company and its chief executive...
According to a new report by Forrester Research, many business-to-business Web sites ignore customer goals and fail to meet the basic requirements of a good user experience. Forrester came to this conclusion after grading 30 business-to-business Web sites and finding that every one of them faile...
Originally published on January 5, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. Stocks plummeted yesterday, as fears of rising interest rates depressed blue chips for a second straight day and also motivated some investors to take profits from high-tech stocks. At one point in afternoon ...
Originally published on January 5, 2000 and brought to you today as a time capsule. Two of Spain's largest commercial banks have disclosed plans to launch Unoe Bank SA, the country's first independent Internet bank. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya SA and Argentaria Caja Postal & Banco Hipotecario S...
Former NFL, NBA and NHL greats John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky have announced that they will attempt to muscle into the competitive online sporting goods market by launching MVP.com next month. The site will offer expert advice and insight from the world's top athletes, along with...
Originally published on December 20, 1999 and brought to you today as a time capsule. With less than two weeks left until the next century, it seems like a good time to speculate about some e-commerce trends and offer some predictions. One notable development this year was the advent of free In...
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