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IBM Announces Two Major E-Commerce Initiatives

IBM, which announced a weaker-than-expected fourth quarter today, has unveiled two major e-commerce initiatives ...

Retailers React To Pressure from Online Shopping

Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce was a paltry two percent or so of overall retail sales in 1999. Nevertheless, industry experts are telling brick-and-mortar companies in the $2.7 trillion (US$) retail industry that they must jump online quickly or risk being left behind ...

Online Credit Card Security Takes Another Hit

Consumer fears of online credit card security were reinforced this week, as hackers infiltrated the credit card database of health products supplier Global Health Trax, Inc ...

Battle for Online Car Sales Grows Fierce

The traditionally tight battle for U.S. auto sales is moving to the Web in full force, as top automakers are now clamoring for position in a crowded e-commerce landscape ...

Auto Dealers Remain in E-Commerce Loop Despite Fears

Despite concerns that automobile companies are angling to bypass their automobile dealer networks in the sale of new cars online, car dealers remain entrenched in the online car buying process ...

Retailers Set To Vote on Internet Sales Tax

The battle over paying taxes on Internet purchases has kicked into high gear this year, as members of the National Retail Federation prepare to vote on the issue today. The vote will determine the NRF's formal position ...

AIG Unveils E-Commerce Insurance Plans

Insurance industry giant American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is introducing a series of comprehensive liability insurance offerings that are designed expressly for e-commerce companies ...

Asian B2B E-Commerce To Top $272B By 2003

According to research firm GartnerGroup, Asian B2B e-commerce will top $272 billion (US$) by 2003, with overall Asian e-commerce reaching $340 million ...

European E-Commerce Still Lags Behind U.S.

Despite recent gains, European e-commerce still lags behind online sales in the United States, according to a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC) ...

Report: Online Pharmacy Sales Top $1.9 Billion

Waves of new customers are filling prescriptions and buying cosmetics, vitamins and other traditional health and pharmaceutical products on the Net, according to a new study by research firm ActivMedia ...

Ford and GM Unveil E-Commerce Alliances

No. 1 Internet service provider America Online and U.S. automaker General Motors have announced a joint venture that will help consumers shop and service their new cars via the Internet ...

Venture Capital Goes Mainstream

Working capital for startups has come to e-commerce companies from various sources, including family members, cash advances on credit cards, and even life savings ...

Intel Ditches Microsoft OS in New Web Appliances

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) is ditching the Microsoft operating system in a new line of Internet appliances under development at a target price of about $200 (US$) ...

Don’t Forget The Online Human Touch

Now that the holiday dust has settled, many online businesses are struggling to figure out how to combat the notion that e-commerce is marred by poor customer service ...

Is Grocery Shopping A Key To B2C E-Commerce?

Last November, when priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) began selling groceries online, it was anybody's guess whether the public would take the bait. Now, two months later, priceline.com has more than 75,000 members in its "name-your-own-price" WebHouse Club grocery service, and the company is looking to penetrate a number of markets in the Northeastern quadrant of the United States...

B2B Banking And Advertising Sites Launched

The B2B market was given a boost this week by the launch of two sites that will specialize in B2B banking and advertising, respectively ...

B2B E-Commerce: The Quiet Giant

Even if 1999 was the year of glitz, glamour and unprecedented consumer online spending, the tremendous movement in the business-to-business (B2B) sector may turn out to be 1999's most important story ...

E-Shoppers Choose Personalization Over Privacy

The battle lines have been drawn for one of the great e-commerce clashes of 2000. Proponents of online privacy and innovators of site-specific personalization are set to struggle with the big question: At what point does personalization become an invasion of an online shopper's privacy? ...

Wireless Banking Poised to Go Mainstream

If you have ever received a desperate call from someone who needs you to wire money right away, you know how inconvenient it can be. Or if your son calls from college and needs tuition money transferred to his account, the necessary trip to the bank can be quite an interruption ...

Giving E-Commerce A Voice

The deafening roar of silence in e-commerce may soon give way to an explosion of sound, as an Internet telephony revolution grows more likely every day ...

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