Beth Cox

Online brokerage E*Trade Group Inc. plans to open 22 more E*Trade Zones inside SuperTarget stores, bringing the total to 43 in nine states. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company said that it already has opened six of the integrated financial services centers in discount stores in Alabama, Colorado, Georgia and Texas. E*Trade’s initial deal with Target […]

Stock of e-marketplace company Commerce One was on the down escalator this morning after the company said third-quarter earnings and revenues would come in below estimates. Goldman, Sachs analysts said they foresee layoffs at the firm. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company, which sells e-marketplace software and services and operates a Global Trading Web of interconnected business […]

Online travel sites continue to roll out business initiatives, as witness Expedia’s new ski vacation section, while traffic to travel Web sites rebounded for the week ending Sept. 30, with audience levels surpassing pre-crisis measurements. Bellevue, Wash.-based Expedia.com , its stock up to the $30 range after sinking to a low near $19 after the […]

Online advertising company 24/7 Media Inc. is about to formally launch its first-ever ASP-based ad serving system, complete with a suite of optimization tools, and already has signed its first customer in privately held YellowPages.com. 24/7 said that its “Connect” ASP product, which will formally launch on Nov. 1, is an “end-to-end ad management solution […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. , citing a drastic slowdown in orders following the attack on the United States, is cutting about 4,000 jobs or 9 percent of its workforce and said it expects a wider loss for its first fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said that based on preliminary financial data, […]

Bankrupt Internet grocery company Webvan Group Inc., which has been in the process of liquidating its assets, said today it has sold its technology platform to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals for $2.65 million. Kaiser also purchased the assets of Webvan’s Oakland Distribution Center for approximately $1.4 million and took over Webvan’s lease obligation there, eliminating a […]

Online trust and payment services company VeriSign Inc. rolled out a new suite of e-commerce solutions aimed at the small- and medium-sized business market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company also got a boost today when Paul Saunders, an analyst at Soundview Technology Group cited VeriSign, via Zacks.com, as a leader in its niche. The new […]

Some companies may be recovering faster than others from the financial hit delivered by the events of Sept. 11, as witness Goldman Sachs’ action on Priceline.com, raising its 2001 earnings estimate as airline travel begins to recuperate. But other industries may not be so fortunate. Both online real estate company Homestore.com Inc. and communications software […]

Online portal Yahoo! Inc., which has been steadily signing deals designed to enhance its revenues, has inked a pact with Hollywood-based MovieTickets.com, an online ticketing and information service. The deal will let visitors to Yahoo! Movies purchase movie tickets online for several thousand movie screens at theaters that offer Internet ticketing throughout the United States […]

Siebel Systems Inc. said Monday it will acquire privately-held nQuire Software Inc. and will integrate and ship nQuire’s scaleable analytic server and intelligent Web products with Siebel 7, the next release of its e-business application suite. San Mateo, Calif. and Minnesota-based nQuire launched its nQuire suite of products in late 1999 to monitor and deliver […]

Auction giant eBay is selling the Brazilian subsidiary of iBazar SA, which it acquired last February, to Latin American online trading operation MercadoLibre.com, based in Buenos Aires. Financial specifics were not disclosed, but eBay gets a 19.5 percent stake in MercadoLibre and said it “will share best practices with the company.” iBazar currently has more […]

Integrated circuit, software and system design company GlobeSpan Inc. is acquiring communications software and semiconductor maker Virata Corp. in a $1.3 billion deal that is expected to create a DSL powerhouse. The companies said they “share a vision to create the premier communications semiconductor company.” Red Bank, N.J.-based GlobeSpan said the all-stock deal will create […]