Beth Cox

E-fulfillment services company SubmitOrder.com said that Silver Lake Partners and The Barksdale Group have agreed to invest $75 million in the company to acquire a majority stake. The funding will be used to support rapid expansion of distribution centers and IT infrastructure in 2000, the company said. “We chose Silver Lake Partners and The Barksdale […]

College student-oriented e-commerce player edu.com established an e-commerce relationship with Snowball.com, a provider of online media and entertainment for Generation i. The relationship positions edu.com as the primary commerce solution for Snowball.com’s sites PowerStudents.com and InsideGuide.com, offering special “student only” pricing on products and services including hardware and peripherals, software, credit cards, textbooks and other […]

Business and consumer e-commerce in Europe will grow at triple-digit rates over the next five years, and Northern Europe will significantly close the gap with the United States, says a new industry study. E-commerce in Europe will reach 1.6 trillion Euros by 2004, predicts the report from Forrester Research B.V., which outlines how e-commerce networks […]

Israeli software company Magic Software Enterprises has signed a letter of understanding with CasWell Logistics BV, a business partner for the past 12 years, to acquire a majority interest in the company. CasWell is a provider of supply chain, logistical, administration and accounting software in the Netherlands. Financial terms were not disclosed. Upon closing, Magic […]

Companies that deliver water, gas, electricity and other services to households and businesses have stepped up plans to offer e-business services to lock in customers and lock out the competition, says a new study. According to the study by Killen & Associates , by year-end 2002, billers will use electronic bill presentment (EBP) to send […]

Blaze Software Inc. said that healthcare e-commerce site PlanetRx.com a leading Internet has selected its Blaze Advisor Solutions Suite to personalize online customer product recommendations. PlanetRx.com will use Advisor to offer customers individualized product recommendations and remedies for specific health topics and problems. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. “Using Blaze Advisor to drive our new, […]

IQorder.com said it is planning a first-quarter 2000 release for an application that allows comparison shopping and purchases via minibrowser-enabled cellular phones, land-line telephones, CE or palm devices, two-way pagers and standard browsers. The company said the consumer will be able to enter anything that is known about an item, such as model number, ISBN, […]

DHL Airways Inc., the U.S. arm of the DHL Worldwide Express delivery network, signed with e-commerce management solutions firm Syntra to leverage the latter’s Internet-based transaction services. The agreement addresses the issue of calculating the true cost of delivering goods internationally. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. DHL, which has an estimated 40 percent market share […]

Web performance measurement firm Keynote delivered MyKeynote, a customizable portal-style interface for viewing the performance status of Web sites. The company also launched Consumer Perspective, a new measurement service that provides e-commerce sites with information about how Internet users “at home” experience the performance of their Web sites and those of their competitors. MyKeynote is […]

Campsix Inc. launched as an Internet incubator aimed at addressing the needs of Internet entrepreneurs in the San Francisco area. The company said it will provide its portfolio companies with access to scarce, in-demand professional services and on-premise mentoring from a staff of 35 professionals in nine key areas of expertise including engineering, marketing, finance, […]

Internet and technology-related holding company M&A West Inc. launched a Linux Funding Web site to pursue investment and development opportunities. The company said it is now in the process of evaluating companies to invest in and is seeking companies with “demonstrable plans for both short-term and long-term profitability.” Its first such investment is in OpenExpress.com, […]

Bank One Corp.’s financial supersite, bankone.com, signed with CyberSource Corp. for payment processing and risk management services. Bankone.com provides online investing, electronic billing/payment, funds transfers, loan applications, and financial news. “We needed an e-commerce partner who could match our level of customer service and reliability,” said Mike Johnson, president of Interactive Delivery Services for Bank […]