Beth Cox

Fears that online merchants will be out of stock or deliver items late are expected to prompt a majority of online holiday shoppers to spend less than 10 percent of their gift budget online, according to a new research report. The report from Jupiter Communications Inc. said those fears will likely drive many of an […]

Online consumers expect their personal information be used to deliver truly personalized content and to enhance their online experience — not for intrusive marketing efforts, says a new industry study. But fully 60 percent of online adults surveyed still feel that submitting information online is riskier than by telephone — and over one-third still believe […]

E-commerce company ShopNow.com Inc. signed an agreement to acquire an undisclosed equity stake in e-commerce company Galleon Distributed Technologies Inc., a provider of order and transaction processing technologies and services. ShopNow.com Chairman and CEO Dwayne Walker will join the board of directors of Galleon. As part of the agreement, Galleon will use ShopNow’s eBusiness Solutions […]

E-commerce company ShopNow.com Inc. said its eBusiness Solutions Division has partnered with Snowball.com for the launch of ChickShops, a shopping site targeting the 12-29 year old female shoppers on the ChickClick.com Network. ShopNow and Snowball.com developed an e-commerce solution for ChickClick.com, including transaction processing, call center, back end operations and a sophisticated customer service center […]

“Cashless” commerce and teen investing site MainXchange.com and iCanBuy.com, an Internet shopping and money management site for teens and kids, signed a partnership agreement. MainXChange will provide a direct link to a co-branded, private-label network built and maintained by iCanBuy.com, allowing teens to create an iCanBuy account. In addition to offering MainXChange teens the opportunity […]

Soon-to-launch iBelieve.com, a new Internet venture from retailer Family Christian Stores, has selected Beyond Interactive as its interactive advertising agency of record. iBelieve.com will launch around the first of the year as an online destination site that incorporates e-commerce with content and community programming aimed at Christian Internet users. Beyond Interactive will launch an interactive […]

Interactive PR firm TechMarcom and Read-Poland Associates, which recently moved into the Internet space, have agreed to team up on an as-needed basis to offer marketing and communications to tech start-ups and new dot-coms with limited budgets. The alliance can provide a broad range of services and media representation to clients of both firms in […]

E-mail-based customer relationship management and direct marketing company MessageMedia Inc. has published a white paper on spam entitled “Sometimes the Messenger Should be Shot: Building a Spam-Free E-mail Marketing Program.” Designed to be a resource for marketers, the white paper explores aspects of e-mail marketing such as the anti-spam movement and legislation; the definition of […]

PRWebCast.com has launched a new streaming media service that combines textual press releases with streaming media in the form of video and/or slide shows. The company offers both PR Slide Shows and PR Video presentations, both with images and audio as well as text. The site is dedicated to serving the PR professional and the […]

NBC Internet Inc. named John J. McMenamin, a veteran of both iVillage and Time Warner, as executive vice president of sales and marketing. McMenamin will report to NBCi President and COO Edmond Sanctis. McMenamin will oversee NBCi’s advertising, sponsorship and integrated media sales, including strategies that tie together broadcast and cable television, radio and Internet […]

Audience analysis and traffic measurement company WebSideStory filed a federal lawsuit against WebTrends Corp. and obtained a temporary restraining order for alleged copyright and trade infringement. With its HitBox application, the privately held WebSideStory says it “pioneered the technology of remote, Internet-based Web audience monitoring and analysis.” WebTrends describes itself as a provider of enterprise […]

A new radio advertising campaign launched by fragrance and cosmetics retailer Sephora and sephora.com is targeting the largest concentrations of Internet users in the United States. The ads, which will be broadcast in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami and Pittsburgh, were created by […]