Beth Cox

Parsippany, N.J.-based Galileo International is launching its travel data and services operation into the Web services arena for the online travel industry. The move will allow Galileo’s customers (including travel agencies, software developers and suppliers of air, hotel, car, tour and cruise services) to directly access the company’s travel information and services. Galileo, a Cendant […]

Buy.com founder Scott Blum, who took the company private last August at a price of 17 cents a share, has decided to market its e-commerce engine on a “virtual private label” basis, letting client companies extend their product offerings. Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Buy.com, the self-proclaimed “Internet Superstore,” ran head-on into the Internet recession and Blum […]

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo rolled out online banking and bill-paying services for small business owners, letting customers pay both business and personal bills via the Internet. The new service is called Wells Fargo Business Online Banking and Bill Pay, and lets customers pay bills from either a business account or a personal account with the […]

The government says that U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of this year were an estimated $9.849 billion, up about 19 percent from the first quarter a year ago but down from last year’s holiday-packed fourth quarter estimate of $11.2 billion. The figures from the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau are based on a […]

Q. Is the long drought over for successful Internet IPOs? A. A resounding “maybe.” The online retailer of closeout goods prices at $13 a share, raising the question of whether the long drought in Internet IPOs is coming to an end. Still, the company raised $39 million, and though that’s nothing compared to the heyday […]

Online travel operation Expedia, determined to stay among the front-runners in this ultra-competitive e-commerce segment, launched a Build Your Own Trip tool that lets customers add services and activities at their destinations. The tool, featured prominently on the Expedia home page and part of a new shopping cart type service, lets consumers make arrangements for […]

Business software company PeopleSoft Inc. delivered an eSettlements solution for electronic invoice presentation and payment (EIPP) for the enterprise that provides a common platform for B2B buyers and sellers. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company said that the new integrated electronic settlement solution saves time and can improve a company’s cash management functioning, allowing buyers and sellers […]

Internet retail giant Amazon.com, which makes no secret of the fact that it wants to be able to sell anything to anyone, this week quietly launched a beta test of sales from third-party print catalog marketers. The Seattle-based company says on its site that “our new mail-order catalog service, which allows you to explore and […]

Semiconductor manufacturer Intel Corp. , in a move to bolster its optical networking business, paid about $50 million in cash for the tunable laser business and technology of photonics solutions provider New Focus Inc. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel said that about 40 employees from San Jose, Calif.-based New Focus are joining Intel as well. The […]

Hoping for an IPO bounce like the one PayPal took after going public, online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. began trading today at a price of $15 per share. Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix sold 5.5 million shares at that price in a bid to raise $83 million with underwriters Merrill Lynch, Thomas Weisel and U.S. […]

Cleveland, Ohio-based paint company Sherwin-Williams gave Linux a boost and signed with IBM to convert its computers and cash registers in more than 2,500 stores to the open source operating system over the next year. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. will provide the company with a portfolio of services, including consulting as well as IBM NetVista […]

Portal site Yahoo!, deciding that it can’t necessarily be all things to all people online, will shut down its auction sites in Europe and let eBay pick up the slack. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo! Inc. said it signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar deal with San Jose, Calif.-based auction leader eBay Inc. , which will feature a link […]