Beth Cox

Online women’s sports apparel and accessories store lucy.com signed an e-commerce agreement with America Online. The agreement provides lucy.com with prominent placements in the Sports and Fitness, Athletic Shoes and Apparel departments, as well as in the Women’s Apparel department of the Shop@AOL area on the AOL service as well as on AOL.com, CompuServe and […]

Concerns regarding transaction security are the primary obstacle keeping women from shopping online, according to a recent study. In fact, security concerns appear to be stronger predictors of online purchasing than any other factor, including Internet experience, says the report from Internet customer relationship management company Cyber Dialogue. Forty-three percent of men online currently order […]

A new research report estimates that the healthcare industry will reach $370 billion in online transactions by 2004. Compared with travel, finance, and even the steel industry, healthcare e-commerce is a late bloomer, says the report from Forrester Research. But the Web will become the foundation for a new healthcare industry infrastructure that supports complex, […]

Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch signed a long-term distribution partnership agreement with Kozmo.com, local delivery Service. The deal makes Kozmo.com the exclusive “under one hour” general delivery provider on the CitySearch.com network of city guides. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Kozmo.com will be prominently positioned on the front page of CitySearch.com city guide sites. In addition, citysearch.com visitors […]

Marketplace4U.com, a consumer e-commerce subsidiary of Manchester Equipment Co. Inc., has signed an agreement with StarMedia Network, the Internet media company serving Spanish and Portuguese speaking audiences, to be the “prominent” consumer electronic products provider to StarMedia users in the United States. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. “Marketplace4U.com will provide StarMedia’s United States network users […]

The Arrow Corp. said it has officially acquired the 14-store pharmacy of Kaiser Permanente’s Northeast Division. It is the third major acquisition in less than 60 days for Arrow. The company said that the transactions have added a total of 48 new stores and $100 million in sales and helped increase system-wide annualized revenues to […]

Entertainment hobbyist site NextPlanetOver said it will add a business-to-consumer auction area to its site in order to give traditional retailers of entertainment collectibles a place to sell their products online. The auction area will include graphic novels and comic books, collectible card and role-playing games, action figures, toys, TV- and film-related memorabilia and exclusive […]

Energy and communications online marketplace Essential.com said it is expanding its Massachusetts service to cover 47 of the contiguous states in the U.S. Essential.com provides one-stop shopping for all “essential services” such as energy, Internet access and telecommunications services from brand name providers. Since its launch in June of 1999, Essential.com has served only customers […]

Perfecto Technologies, a developer of security software for e-commerce operations, completed its third round of financing, raising more than $16 million. Led by The Sprout Group, the venture capital affiliate of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), the round also includes affiliates of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and previous investors Sequoia Capital, Intel and Walden […]

An Internet research firm is predicting that the worldwide online travel market will increase from $5 billion in 1999 to $30 billion by the fourth quarter of 2001. Technology adviser Gartner Group Inc. made the prediction of explosive growth, but cautioned that leisure travel companies that do not have a presence on the Internet already […]

E-commerce company ShopNow.com Inc. signed a deal with permission marketing and privacy management solutions firm PrivaSeek Inc. to allow consumers to control their personal information while they shop on the ShopNow Network. The PrivaSeek technology will empower shoppers to create a “ShopNow Persona” to dictate how and where their personal information is used online. Additionally, […]

E-commerce art site PaintingsDirect.com signed an e-commerce agreement with America Online Inc. to become a gold tenant in the Arts and Collectibles department of the Shop@AOL, AOL.com, CompuServe and Netscape online shopping destinations. The agreement will enable members and users of AOL’s family of brands to browse and purchase original paintings from PaintingsDirect.com’s collection of […]