Beth Cox

Sounding more and more like a financial services company to be reckoned with, E*Trade Group Inc. launched a radio content syndication service featuring original financial news programming for radio stations across the United States. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company , which has been moving aggressively to become something more than just another online brokerage, said […]

Online pharmacy and e-tailer drugstore.com Inc. posted a pro forma fourth quarter loss of $14.7 million on record net sales of $43.5 million, up 20 percent from the year-earlier quarter. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company said the pro forma net loss was 22 cents a share, compared to a net loss of 45 cents a share […]

Its stock price down to less then $1 a share, Internet recession victim Beyond.com filed for bankruptcy today and said it has agreed to sell most of its assets to e-commerce enabler Digital River Inc. . Santa Clara, Calif.-based Beyond.com said it was unable to secure additional capital to strengthen its balance sheet and satisfy […]

Irvine, Calif.-based Autobytel Inc., a player in the online automotive game, found the gas pedal in its fourth quarter, reporting its first-ever pro forma profit of a penny a share on revenues of $20.5 million, up from $16.8 million in the same period a year ago. Autobytel said fourth quarter 2001 income includes revenues from […]

Call it the Internet’s own version of Tyson-Lewis, Round (Whatever). Microsoft Corp. is going toe-to-toe with rival America Online yet again, this time launching a new mapping service on its MSN network that will compete head-on with AOL’s venerable MapQuest.com. MapQuest, which launched back in 1996 and traces its roots back to the 1960s as […]

Online travel merchant Expedia Inc. bolstered its vacation line by acquiring a vacation wholesaler from Classic Vacation Group Inc. for $52 million in cash and stock. Classic Custom Vacations is a CLV unit that wholesales vacation packages to Hawaii, Mexico, North America, Europe and the Caribbean. The deal enhances Expedia’s custom vacation package business. CLV […]

A day after incubator-turned-software-specialist divine acquired content and search technology firm Northern Light and its Special Collection, Yahoo! signed a deal with divine to offer a premium online research library. The key word for Yahoo! of course, is “premium” as the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based portal continues efforts to supplement ad revenues with new sources of income […]

Only a day after incubator-turned-software-specialist divine Inc. acquired content and search technology firm Northern Light and its Special Collection, Yahoo! Inc. signed a deal with divine to offer a premium online research library. The key word for Yahoo! of course, is “premium” as the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based portal continues its efforts to supplement ad revenues with […]

Verizon Online is executing on a deal to provide all its dial-up and broadband customers with free access to Brightmail’s spam filtering software, which sweeps a customer’s e-mail box and diverts suspected spam into a separate folder. San Francisco-based message management and content-filtering company Brightmail calls its software the Spam Detector. Suspect junk mail is […]

Online florist FTD.com, reporting results on the same day as Amazon.com, beat the giant by a mile, posting net second fiscal quarter (ending Dec. 31) earnings of $3.3 million, or seven cents per share fully diluted. The Downers Grove, Ill-based little flower company that could said its second quarter revenues grew 24 percent to $40.4 […]

Beating its own estimates of a pro forma profit for the fourth quarter, online retail giant Amazon.com posted a fully diluted net profit for the first time ever — including all of its interest expenses — of 1 cent per share as it recorded its first billion-dollar income period. The Seattle-based company posted record fourth […]

Just days after predicting continued financial growth in 2002, online auction giant eBay said it is raising fees for users, including the Final Value Fee, which is the bite the company takes when an item is sold. In a notice in its announcements section, eBay said that effective Jan. 31, “we are increasing Final Value […]