Beth Cox

Facing an imminent delisting from the NASDAQ exchange, dispute resolution site clickNsettle.com Inc. said it will acquire privately held MPEG-4 technology company E-Vue Inc. in a stock deal valued at about $20 million. The transaction would make E-Vue’s MPEG-4 digital media technology a business arm for clickNsettle . clickNsettle.com provides a blind bid online negotiation […]

Not yet August, and already comes a release touting an online holiday shopping site: Bloomingdale’s is planning an interactive window display at the 59th Street store in Manhattan. The plan is to provide window shoppers the option to “beam” various Top Ten gift lists to their Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) handheld devices from a similar […]

The American Arbitration Association in New York (AAA), a conflict management and dispute resolution provider, launched a new Dispute Risk Management Web site for online B2B participants. The site features a specialized B2B e-commerce “Panel of Neutrals” available to address disagreements. The idea is “to assess the potential for value/supply chain disputes, prevent or contain […]

When it comes to privacy, ever more intrusive collection technologies are being rolled out, such as online tracking mechanisms, spyware, face recognition systems, location tracking devices and even thermal imaging, a Senate Commerce Committee panel was told today. And, Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters.com and a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at […]

Timex, the venerable watch company best known for its slogan of “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking,” has signed a “Web-to-wrist” deal with Yahoo! Inc. that will bring news, stock quotes and even e-mail to the forearms of timepiece users all over America. With the “Timex Internet Messenger Fortified by Yahoo!” watch, Middlebury, […]

E-business solutions company Marimba Inc. named a new CEO and said that its second quarter pro forma net loss is expected to be 9 to 11 cents a share, rather than the 18 cents per share expected by a consensus of Wall Street analysts. Revenues are expected to be approximately $12.2 million, up 11 percent […]

Its stock down to six cents a share, online grocer Webvan Group Inc. said today that it “has ceased operations in all markets and that it intends to file for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.” The company, which has been struggling for months and never made a dime after its IPO, […]

Low-fare air carrier Southwest Airlines , which has a lawsuit pending against the Orbitz travel Web site that is backed by five competitors, has yanked its flight listing data from the industry clearinghouse that supplies the site. And, Travelocity.com Inc. has acquired WhereTo, an Australian firm with highly rated booking technology for a new type […]

Microsoft Corp. has issued a security bulletin for Windows 2000 users and a patch to resolve a flaw that could allow a malicious user to authenticate to the service using improper credentials for e-mail relaying. The company said that an SMTP service installs by default as part of Windows 2000 server products, and can be […]

Despite the doom and gloom that pervades the world of dot bombed e-commerce, B2C online activity is alive and well in the Asia-Pacific market and in fact is growing more than 100 percent a year, says a new industry study. The report from the Boston Consulting Group says that corporate success online in Asia is […]

Dallas-based Verizon Information Services scored a deal with AltaVista Thursday when the search site agreed to make the telecommunications company’s SuperPages.com the exclusive provider of white and Yellow Pages services for AltaVista, effectively replacing WorldPages.com. SuperPages.com now is powering AltaVista’s online Yellow Pages and People Finder service. The People Finder allows AltaVista users to search […]

High-speed wireless data and Internet communications company Wi-LAN Inc. increased its third quarter broadband wireless revenue forecast from a range of $6 million to $9 million, to between $7 million and $9 million. The Calgary, Alberta-based company said that unaudited broadband wireless sales totaled $5.2 million in the first two months of its third quarter. […]