Beth Cox

Interactive solutions and e-business consulting company Xceed Inc. closed on a $30 million private offering of securities to a group of investors led by Ramius Capital Group. Funds managed by Ramius Capital first invested in Xceed in June of 1999. The company said it plans to use the funds for financing the company’s growth and […]

Continuing to sign deals with major telcos to roll out a global B2B e-commerce marketplace, Commerce One Wednesday inked an agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG for the creation of the Deutsche Telekom MarketPlace. Using the Commerce One MarketSite portal solution, Deutsche Telekom MarketPlace is expected to streamline the buying and selling of goods and services […]

Motorola and VeriSign Inc. said they plan to team up to develop and market solutions for secure e-commerce transactions to users of Internet-enabled wireless devices. The companies said consumers will be able to purchase items using an Internet-enabled wireless phone, for example, with the confidence that the merchant is who it claims to be and […]

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) of the National Retail Federation formally accepted a proposed XML-based standard for delivering receipts over the Internet. Designed to bring proof of purchase to consumers’ PCs, the new Digital Receipt is a product of the Digital Receipt Alliance, which was formed and led by NCR Corp. Other founding […]

Swiss telecommunications company Swisscom AG Tuesday unveiled plans to launch a business-to-business e-commerce marketplace in conjunction with Commerce One Inc. The new service will be established to serve Switzerland and central Europe. Swisscom signed a deal with Commerce One to launch the marketplace based upon the latter’s MarketSite solution. The idea is to link buyers […]

Online mortgage company E-LOAN Inc. has been named the exclusive mortgage services provider for hrblock.com, which is moving beyond online tax preparation. The mortgage center will be one of the three centers featured on the new H&R Block Web site through prominent tabs on the home page. The other two centers are tax and investment. […]

Web hosting firm Verio Inc. is taking a 4.9 percent stake in Australian domain registrar Melbourne IT as part of a strategic relationship announced late last week. The deal enables Melbourne IT’s global domain name registry business, Internet Names WorldWide (INWW), to provide domain name registration services to Verio’s customer base of about 525,000 domain […]

Convenience and quality, not price, are the major motivators for online grocery buyers, says a new study. When it comes to shopping on the Web for groceries and gourmet items, grocery shoppers tend to buy online for convenience, while gourmet food buyers shop for perceived quality and variety, says a new study from ActivMedia Research […]

Man Sang International Limited, a unit of Man Sang Holdings Inc., said it plans to launch a pearl jewelry e-commerce Web site for the China market. The new site would complement the existing www.mspearl.com site operated by M.S. Electronic Emporium, another subsidiary of the company. Man Sang Group, founded in the early 1980s, is one […]

58Comet Technologies launched a site called Nosaleisfinal.com that allows shoppers at both Internet and bricks and mortar stores to learn if they received the best deal in time to cancel or return a purchase and buy from a store offering a better deal. If this works, it could well be a consumer’s dream, but something […]

E-commerce site performance measurement company Keynote launched the Keynote Perspective Global 50 and Transaction 25 services. The two new services expand to 50 the number of statistically selected metropolitan locations around the world from which Keynote measures e-commerce quality of service. Coverage now includes all key Internet population centers around the world, the company said. […]

E-commerce marketing site CoolSavings, which offers consumers coupons, rebates, savings notices, free samples and gift certificates from national e-commerce and brick and mortar retailers, said it has reached the five million member mark. In the fourth quarter of 1999 alone, the site registered more than 1 million new members, the company said. Advertisers on coolsavings.com […]