Beth Cox

B2B e-commerce solutions provider SPS Commerce has acquired RNetEC, a provider of Web-based Universal Product Code (UPC) solutions for retailers and vendors. Financial details were not disclosed. The UPC catalog service will be integrated with SPS Commerce’s Web-based services to provide a total e-supply chain solution for retailers and their trading partners, the company said. […]

Real estate e-commerce solutions provider Homes Inc. closed on a $38.5 million venture capital funding round led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, with additional investments from Kinetics Ventures, Comdisco Ventures and Lighthouse Capital. Also, Homes Inc. subsidiary Homes.com said it acquired Real Estate Village, an Internet marketing solutions provider for the real estate sector. Financial […]

Digital Paths launched a deluxe version of its DPWeb service that will enable mobile device users to conduct secure e-commerce transactions. The deluxe version, designated DPWebDX, is aimed at users of Internet-enabled wireless devices such as the Palm VII personal digital assistant (PDA), smart phones and hand-held computers. DPWeb, first introduced last November, incorporates industry-standard […]

Network traffic management tools supplier Lightspeed Systems said it has developed a pre-configured bandwidth management solution for college campuses dealing with a surge in bandwidth usage thanks to the download popularity of MP3 music files. Colleges and universities have recently been reporting system overloads because of increasing use of Napster, a popular online file-sharing (download) […]

Consonus Inc., a provider of e-business application hosting and development solutions, and Inference Corp.’s k-Commerce Sales Division, a provider of personalization and e-merchandising systems, launched a joint enterprise solution for e-tailing sites. Consonus is providing its commerce engine and k-Commerce Sales is providing solutions for customer profiling and personalized e-merchandising programs. “k-Commerce Sales’ ability to […]

In a story that conjures up the worst fears of online shoppers, Italian tax police arrested an Italian man and his Israeli wife over the weekend, accusing them of using thousands of stolen American credit card numbers to place $750,000 worth of online lottery bets. Thousands of credit card numbers were involved and the vast […]

Sears, Roebuck and Co. said it will create an e-commerce home improvement joint venture called BobVila.com with television personality and home improvement expert Bob Vila. Vila has been a Sears spokesman since 1989, which is a relationship that will continue after the formation of BobVila.com. Also, Sears has sponsored “Bob Vila’s Home Again,” a nationally […]

Domain name registrar Network Solutions Inc. made an unspecified investment that it described as “significant” in MyComputer.com, an application service provider for tools used by Webmasters. The two companies said they will develop “the dot com dashboard,” a co-branded, integrated solution to enable Network Solutions’ customers to manage their Internet domain names. Additionally, both companies […]

Compaq Corp. this week delivered a business-grade wireless solution for service providers that enables mobile customers using hand-held devices to receive Internet-based data and to complete commercial transactions “reliably and securely.” The Compaq Mobile Internet Platform is a next-generation mobile commerce solution that incorporates advanced middleware, including Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology, which enables wirefree […]

A new survey of spending at retail Web sites shows that consumers in the United States spent $2.8 billion online during January alone — half as much as was spent during the entire 1999 holiday season. According to the the National Retail Federation/Forrester Online Retail Index, consumers spent the most on airline tickets, followed in […]

Drugstore chain Walgreen Co. contracted with business-to-business e-commerce solutions provider SPS Commerce to assist in electronically automating vendors’ transactions for both its warehouse and direct store delivery trading community. Walgreen Co., the nation’s largest retail drugstore chain with nearly 3,000 stores, has a supply chain with more than 2,000 trading partners. The company expects to […]

B2B e-business and technical consulting services firm digitalESP Inc. launched its first ESPec Center (E-business Standard Protocol for Enterprise Commerce). The center in Raleigh, NC is designed to help companies make a seamless transition to B2B e-commerce and accelerate time-to-market solutions. The first project underway at the ESPec Center is enhancing systems for the Florida […]