Beth Cox

Actor James Earl Jones, best known in advertising circles for his work for Verizon Communications Inc., will lend his deep bass voice to a public service radio campaign for San Jose, Calif.-based privacy seal operation TRUSTe. The campaign is designed to educate consumers about privacy protection and is part of TRUSTe’s ongoing educational Privacy Partnership […]

Dallas-based Verizon Information Services’ SuperPages.com signed partner deals with two Internet ad companies that let Verizon’s national Yellow Pages sales force offer banner ads and online coupons to SuperPages.com advertisers. Terms of the agreements with Andover, Mass.-based ad firm Engage and e-marketing infrastructure company Eversave were not disclosed. The deals are aimed at allowing small- […]

Tickets.com and Visa USA Ink Marketing Pact Tickets.com and Visa USA signed a strategic alliance agreement making Visa the preferred payment method at the event ticketing site, and enhancing online security. The companies said they would roll out integrated marketing programs to encourage Visa cardholders to take advantage of the offering of live events available […]

Troubled multi-category Internet retailer buy.com, still reeling from two rounds of layoffs, said today that both of its directors from Softbank — William L. Burnham and Scott Russell — have resigned. “While Softbank Capital Partners remains fully supportive of the buy.com management team, the time and effort required to manage our other investments has expanded […]

With its stock down to 32 cents a share at market-open today, Internet computer products retailer Cyberian Outpost Inc. issued a statement quoting the chairman as saying the company “has decided to explore all available options at this time.” Shortly after the opening bell the stock was down to 20 cents a share as the […]

Irvine, Calif.-based Autobytel will acquire its bitter rival, Santa Clara, Calif.-based auto sales site Autoweb.com Inc. in a tax-free merger deal valued at about $15 million in stock. The combined company is projected to have revenues of more than $100 million per year, Autobytel said, with more than 7,000 dealer customers, 24 international automotive manufacturer […]

Pleasanton, Calif.-based B2B e-commerce software provider Commerce One Inc. appointed Dennis H. Jones, former executive vice president of information technology and chief information officer for FedEx Corp., as its chief operating officer and vice chairman of the board. The market apparently liked the news, sending Commerce One stock up 17 percent or $1.14 to $7.80 […]

Online retail operation Walmart.com was down for nearly 9 hours today after it choked on a database glitch, but the site was back up and running by about 12:50 p.m. EDT. Walmart.com spokeswoman Cynthia Lin told InternetNews.com it was “a nonrecurring problem” and as such is not expected to happen again. She said she did […]

The whole concept of digital publishing took a major step forward today as Amazon.com did an eBook deal with Adobe Systems Inc. and rival online bookseller Barnes & Noble.com signed an online content agreement with MightyWords. Amazon.com.’s deal with publishing software company Adobe adds the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader software to its e-book store and […]

Suwanee, Ga.-based B2B e-commerce solution provider Clarus Corp. and Microsoft’s newly acquired Great Plains Software Inc. apparently are about to team up for a joint marketing program aimed at the Canadian market. A conference call to discuss the marketing agreement, originally scheduled for today, has been postponed a few days to a week while the […]

E-commerce bellwether company Amazon.com saw its stock soar 35 percent in early trading after it made a preliminary first-quarter report showing lower-than-expected losses and net sales of more than $695 million, up 21 percent from the same period a year ago. The news helped bolster investor sentiment for the much-maligned e-tailing sector. Amazon stock was […]

Following up on earlier job cuts, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Egghead.com Inc. slashed another 178 jobs or 29 percent of its remaining staff in a move that the CEO referred to as “right-sizing” the company. The troubled Internet retailer of computers, software and other technology products, which at one-time was a chain of real-world stores, cut […]