Beth Cox

America Online Inc. (AOL) displaced Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) in March as the leading online merchant for the first time since September of 1999, according to new figures from the NextCard eCommerce Index. Due to high demand, the March Index was expanded to include the top 30 online merchants in terms of transaction volume, NextCard said. […]

Ticketmaster Online–CitySearch Inc. and a consortium of Japanese companies led by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd. and Sumitomo formed a joint venture company, Walkerplus.com Inc., to provide city guide destination sites and services in Japan. Kadokawa Shoten is a Japanese media company and publisher of Walker, an arts and entertainment guide available in several cities […]

ConsumerREVIEW.com launched the first in a series of seasonal buyers guides featuring product recommendations, how-to information, directories and original articles. The first guide is the Golf Guide, a resource for all levels of golfers with more than 2,000 rated and reviewed golf products, articles on golf travel destinations and links to news coverage of tournaments. […]

Where have all the e-shoppers gone? Gone to Lancome.com and PriceWatch.com, every one. Or almost every one. At least according to Internet measurement service Nielsen//NetRatings, which said that for the week ending April 2 the top site for female surfers at-home was Lancome.com, the official Lancome Web site providing makeup, fragrance and skincare. Of those […]

European-focused travel Web site operation eDreams has launched in Spain, following on the heels of its launch in Italy in February. eDreams said it has signed agreements with more than 25 Spanish tour operators including Tiempo Libre, Mundicolor, Soltour, Turavia and Club de Vacaciones. Final sales transactions for eDreams’ holidays are handled by Ultramar Express’ […]

Internet service company RedCart launched its Universal Shopping Platform and announced partnerships with LookSmart and PRIMEDIA Inc. RedCart said its partners can now offer a universal shopping cart service, creating integrated marketplaces with access to any online retailer on their own sites. The company’s patent-pending universal shopping cart technology was introduced last November. The technology […]

Frictionless Commerce Inc. rolled out the PurchaseSource software suite this week. The company said the software has the ability to offer intelligent decision support for purchasers across both dynamic and static priced commerce environments simultaneously. The result is higher transaction volumes, increased buyer/seller satisfaction and improved ROI on initial technology investments, the company claims. “Our […]

Cahners Business Information, a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group, and Aspect Development Inc. established a new company called Manufacturing.Net LLC that will provide the manufacturing industry with a new electronic marketplace. The new company is aimed at becoming the manufacturing industry’s “premiere procurement Web site, serving all elements of the e-commerce value chain […]

Electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) company YourAccounts.Com said that anywhere.direct, a component of its e.bill.anywhere product line, has been selected by Ford Credit to support its Internet-based billing and payment application. Since launching the anywhere.direct solution in December, Ford Credit has posted a consumer adoption rate of over 3 percent for the electronic billing […]

Move over Lowes and Home Depot. Amazon.com has launched a new Lawn & Patio store, featuring thousands of products. The new store features outdoor grills, patio furniture, birdfeeders, lawn mowers, garden tools and decorative ornaments from more than 50 brands, including Weber, Fiskars, Rubbermaid, Rain Bird, Melnor/Gardena, Gilmour, Ryobi, Echo, Weed Eater, Corona and Miracle-Gro. […]

@plan. Inc., an online B2B exchange for optimizing Internet advertising and merchandising strategies, launched its E-Tailgraphics System, a new market research planning system. The company said E-Tailgraphics is “a merchandising vertical system which provides e-tailers with the essential intelligence necessary to effectively compete and strategically grow their business.” The system will focus on three categories: […]

Content and services e-commerce company Qpass signed an agreement with Web currency company beenz.com that lets Qpass merchant partners accept beenz as a payment option for digital commerce transactions. The deal expands the range of payment options offered by Qpass for digital commerce, including all major credit cards, debit card, and direct Internet Service Provider […]