Beth Cox

How2.com, the online subsidiary of Citadel Technology Inc., signed a long-term agreement with GE Warranty Management Inc. that will enable the online sale of extended warranties for appliances and consumer electronics. Backed by GE’s 1,200 service technicians and a network of 8,000 customer care servicers, consumers can now purchase extended warranties on major appliances up […]

Under the category of “gee, why isn’t everybody doing this and why not sooner” comes Snailgram.com, which recently launched as a site that enables customers to use the Internet to buy and send paper greeting cards along with gift certificates. Through Snailgram.com’s Web site, consumers and businesses can select a holiday or general purpose greeting […]

gomembers.com has launched as an Application Service Provider (ASP) site focused specifically on member-based organizations and associations. The member-based and association market is ideal for an ASP deployed software solution, the company said. gomembers.com delivers standard e-commerce functionality with added functions specific to member-related processing such as dues, membership renewals, conference registrations and transcript requests. […]

eCommerce.com Inc. and Extant-Asia Limited signed a partnership agreement and said they plan to launch an e-commerce portal for Greater China under the name China.eCommerce.com by the second quarter. The portal will be a multi-lingual e-commerce portal focused on business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions into and out of the Greater China market, the companies said. “This […]

Competition in the business-to-business online banking arena is heating up. Another company has announced an entry in the field, following rapidly on the heels of last week’s announcement by USABancShares.com that it will launch a new, private label Web site to serve the online banking needs of business-to-business e-commerce customers. And a third Internet banking […]

Internet transaction services company CyberSource Corp. said it is now providing payment processing and risk management services for Mercata, an e-commerce company that brings consumers together to help reduce product prices. For the holiday season, Mercata implemented Credit Card Services and Internet Fraud Screen enhanced by Visa, part of the CyberSource Internet Commerce Suite, to […]

Internet customer relationship firm WiredEmpire said it will acquire and then merge with Pegasus Internet Inc., a marketing consulting and technology development company. Both companies are subsidiaries of Marketing Services Group Inc. (MSGI). Financial arrangements were not disclosed. WiredEmpire said it will leverage Pegasus Internet’s content delivery technology to add a new product, ContentAgent, to […]

Swap.com has launched as a site for kids and teens to trade Pokemon cards, CDs, video games, sports equipment and other items. Swap.com said it is “the first and only Web site that offers Generation I — the first generation to grow up using the Internet — the opportunity to trade with each other in […]

Free shipping is a costly promotion for snagging e-commerce customers. But since retailers have started down this path, they will have a tough time turning back, says a new industry report. In a recent release, Forrester Research says that this holiday season, many online retailers picked up the delivery tab for customers — a big […]

Adornis.com, a European-based company that sells branded fine jewelry, said that Richemont Investments SA, a subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere Richemont, the Swiss luxury group, made a $5 million investment in exchange for a 20 percent stake in the business. Richemont owns some of the most exclusive brands in the world, including Cartier, Alfred Dunhill, Montblanc, […]

ChinaMallUSA.com Inc., a business-to-business e-commerce company that facilitates trade exchanges between the United States and China, signed strategic alliance agreements with the cities of Qingdao and Yucheng in China’s province of Shandong. The two cities have selected ChinaMallUSA.com as their business-to-business e-commerce Web site where the cities as well as their local businesses can publicize […]

Interactive design firm and solutions builder Xceed Inc. established a strategic alliance with iMedium Inc., an embedded e-commerce company that is seeking to push the convergence of online content, advertising and commerce. Xceed will be able to offer its clients iMedium’s See!Commerce technology for use on their Web sites. Xceed will also serve as iMedium’s […]