Beth Cox

Overstock.com, which went public in May at $13 and is now trading in the $8 range, signed a co-branded shopping services deal with women’s media company iVillage. Salt Lake City-based Overstock is an e-commerce “closeout” retailer offering discounted brand-name merchandise. The company said the deal provides iVillage with additional revenues and gives Overstock.com access to […]

Online retail giant Amazon.com, reporting net sales up 21 percent for the second quarter, posted a net loss for the period of $94 million, or 25 cents per share on a GAAP basis, compared to a loss of $168 million, or 47 cents per share a year earlier. The Seattle-based e-commerce bellwether said sales were […]

Just days after Stamps.com won approval for a new form of e-postage that can be printed and used like regular stamps, PayPal did a partner deal to integrate the solution into its online payments service. Mountain View, Calif.-based PayPal said the Stamps.com shipping functionality is expected to be available this fall, in time for the […]

The Federal Trade Commission, concerned that some state regulations and private business practices may be having “significant” anti-competitive effects on e-commerce, is planning a three-day workshop on the matter. FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris said at a news conference in Washington that “there are many state regulations adopted ostensibly for one purpose that had the […]

San Jose, Calif.-based auction leader eBay , saying that its revenues are on track for a billion-dollar year, brought its second quarter earnings in at $54.3 million, or 19 cents per share, as expected. The company said that third-quarter earnings are now anticipated to be 19 cents per share, with revenues ranging between $278 million […]

The possibility of Congressional action in the online travel sector was raised today at a House subcommittee hearing in Washington called to examine supplier-owned online travel sites such as Orbitz. Representatives of the site owned by a consortium of airlines did not attend, citing lack of notice and a scheduling conflict, but Orbitz said in […]

Online financial sites continue to jockey for position, and even as Yahoo was crowing about a No. 1 ranking, Microsoft was expanding its CNBC on MSN Money site, adding features tied to the appearance of guests on CNBC. At the same time, Yahoo Finance was claiming bragging rights as the most-visited Internet finance destination in […]

New CEOs usually take a hard look at bottom lines, and apparently that’s just what Christian Feuer has done at uBid, as the alternative auction site is moving to impose listing fees on its consumer auctions. Chicago-based uBid named Spiegel Catalog Inc. executive Feuer to the top job in May. uBid, a majority-owned operating company […]

It’s been a rough go for the Internet postage business, but things could get better with word from Stamps.com that it has the go-ahead from the U.S. Postal Service for a new form of e-postage that can be printed out and used just like regular stamps. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company said the new postage […]

E-tailing giant Amazon.com put out a welcome mat for developers by launching Amazon.com Web Services, styling it as a platform for the creation of applications and tools to shuttle Amazon.com’s features to other sites. The Web services initiative from Seattle-based Amazon.com is designed specifically for developers and Web site owners and is being made available […]

Handheld device maker Handspring, making a sales push into the corporate arena, signed new announced sales, marketing and distribution pacts aimed at promoting its products to enterprise and small to medium business customers. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it is responding to increased corporate interest in its Treo product line. Treo is a compact […]

Alldomains.com launched DELTA, a corporate management system that combines domain, trademark and brand management with accounting and banking functions as well as intelligence and security services. The privately held Concord, Calif.-based company, an ICANN accredited registrar for .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .name and .us domains, was repurchased by its founder last April when Chris […]