Beth Cox

Troubled B2B software maker Ariba Inc. said that Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japan’s Internet investment company Softbank Corp., has quit as a board member. Softbank would continue to have an ownership stake in Ariba Japan and Son will remain on its board. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ariba has been suffering in the Internet recession and […]

Online auction leader eBay has quietly ended its much publicized Auction for America, launched as a charitable mechanism to raise $100 million in 100 days for the families of those who died Sept. 11. Demonstrating that even the Internet has some limits in terms of fund-raising, the effort came up well short of the goal […]

It may have been a dismal holiday shopping season for many off-line merchants, but evidence is mounting that e-commerce sales exceeded some of the pre-Christmas forecasts, which would be welcome news for the Internet community. Giant Internet pure-play Amazon.com, for instance, reported that it tallied more than 37.9 million items ordered as of midnight PST […]

Online healthcare information play WebMD Corp. is acquiring the portal assets of MedicaLogic/Medscape Inc. for $10 million in cash. Elmwood Park, N.J.-based WebMD said the deal includes the Medscape Medical Professional and Medscape Health for Consumers Web sites. Hillsboro, Ore.-based Medscape, whose stock had been trading well below $1 a share, is a provider of […]

Internet portal Yahoo! Inc., saying that its 2001 holiday e-commerce sales were 86 percent above last year’s, launched an Unwanted Gifts Showcase and Post-Holiday Sales Center. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo! said its visitors spent an estimated $10.3 billion online (not all at Yahoo merchant partners, unfortunately for the portal) in the fourth quarter. Monday, Dec. 10, […]

Less than a month after its chief financial officer resigned, troubled online real estate play Homestore.com Inc. said it “will restate certain of its financial statements” as the audit committee conducts an inquiry into the company’s accounting practices. And now the Nasdaq won’t let the company’s stock resume trading until Homestore.com has “fully satisfied” Nasdaq’s […]

An Arizona credit card processing company has warned its customers about a security breach caused by hackers that might allow its customers’ Web server computers to be used in a DoS attack on other computers. The company, Credit Card Billing LLC (CCBill) of Tempe, Ariz., reportedly advised its customers to change their passwords and search […]

Microsoft Corp. posted a “critical” security patch for Windows XP today, and a digital security outfit called eEye claimed credit for finding the “major vulnerabilities” in the new OS that allows an attacker to gain system level access. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft posted on its site that the impact of the vulnerability is to allow someone […]

Traffic to online retail site Amazon.com led all e-commerce shopping sites in November, up 32 percent from a year ago with 31.5 million unique visitors, according to Web measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings. “Amazon’s phenomenal growth in 2001 defies the law of large numbers,” said Lisa Strand, director and chief analyst at NetRatings . “Traffic to the […]

Clear Channel Wireless has launched a new high-speed service (downstream only) called Delta V that uses a latent portion of digital television signals to speed delivery of Internet data. Calling it the “first step of a national rollout,” Clear Channel Wireless said that the Delta V service will let home and small business Internet users […]

Online vehicle marketing company Autobytel Inc. signed a deal that lets visitors to Yahoo! Autos have access to Autobytel’s network of about 6,700 Internet-connected dealerships. Irvine, Calif.-based Autobytel did not disclose financial arrangements of the deal, but the company is on a bit of a roll, having been issued a patent earlier this week entitled […]

It’s official: Egghead.com is back in the online sales game, this time owned by Amazon.com, which re-launched one of the Internet’s oldest brand names as a new store operation powered by Amazon’s e-commerce platform. As first reported by InternetNews.com, the Egghead assets were acquired by Seattle-based Amazon early this month through the U.S. Bankruptcy Court […]