Beth Cox

Egghead.com Inc., its stock opening this morning only 15 cents above its 52-week low of 50 cents a share, said it is beefing up its senior management team — adding a new chief financial officer as well as a senior VP for marketing. Earlier this month, the Menlo Park, CA-based Internet retailer of computers, software […]

Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola Inc. said it has established an alliance with Phoenix-based e-commerce infrastructure company EPIC Systems Inc. to create an Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) compliant catalog as part of its new e-commerce platform. Motorola, which earlier this week announced that its PCS sector will reduce its global workforce by approximately 7,000 additional […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Yahoo! Inc. said it is making its travel booking and information service available to Web-enabled cell phones across the United States as part of its Yahoo! Everywhere initiative. As part of the launch, Fort Worth, Texas-based Travelocity.com was selected as the content provider the latest mobile version of Yahoo! Travel, which serves […]

February bragging rights for most unique visitors to an e-commerce site again went to Amazon.com, but Kmart’s Bluelight.com entry finally edged ahead of Walmart.com, according to figures from Web measurement firm Jupiter Media Metrix . The report also shows that the total number of minutes spent online in the United States increased 51 percent, from […]

E-business applications company i2 Technologies Inc. , which just last week agreed to acquire RightWorks Corp. in a $114 million deal, today did a partner pact with webMethods to further integrate their technologies. As part of the deal, Fairfax, Va.-based webMethods issued a warrant to Dallas-based i2 under which i2 has the right to purchase […]

Shares of e-business applications provider i2 Technologies Inc. were down almost 12 percent in mid-morning trading after its announcement of a $114 million all-stock deal to acquire privately held RightWorks Corp. San Jose, Calif.-based RightWorks sells software that helps companies set up B2B online exchanges. Its e-procurement technology will be added to Dallas-based i2’s Supplier […]

Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster is acquiring closely held family activity operation Evite.com in a deal that will expand access for the latter’s users to event ticketing as well as Citysearch content. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but published reports said the price was less than $25 million. Ticketmaster CEO John Pleasants said the […]

Amazon.com, which has been moving rapidly into the world of e-books and other downloadable products, now has created a business group focused on global digital distribution. Amazon said its Worldwide Digital Group was created to “centralize its digital platform and aggressively scale it across product lines and geographies.” Jeff Blackburn, who was instrumental in building […]

Traffic to leading e-commerce sites declined about 4 percent on average in February, following an 18 percent seasonal drop in January, according to the latest figures from research and measurement firm PC Data Online. E-commerce leaders eBay and Amazon.com both posted relatively flat month over month traffic levels in February, with eBay unchanged at 24.4 […]

Once a Wall Street darling with a market capitalization of about $10 billion, Santa Monica, Calif.-based eToys has made its demise official, filing for protection from its creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The Web site — where a fire sale (up to 75 percent off) has been going on for some time — […]

Omaha-based Ameritrade Inc. signed a partner deal with United Airlines that will give new online brokerage customers 2,500 Mileage Plus frequent flyer club miles and 10 commission-free Internet equity trades to use in the first month. United has been aggressively pursuing Internet business opportunities and is a founding partner in Orbitz the new travel Web […]

Stock of Amazon.com soared 25 percent in the first minutes of trading today on reports that it may be in negotiations for an e-commerce alliance with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The concept drew a positive reaction from market analysts. The stock was at $12.50 just after the opening bell, up from a Friday close of $10. […]