Beth Cox

Commerce One stock took a nice ride early trading, shooting up ore than 30 percent after reporting a smaller loss than expected for the fourth quarter and predicting 2001 sales of $900 million to $925 million. The stock was up $6.81 in shortly after the market opened, trading at $28.50 after closing Thursday at $21.68. […]

Auction giant eBay after the bell posted fourth quarter net income of $23.9 million, or 9 cents per share, beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of 7 cents per share. And the company predicted that after the acquisition of Internet Auction and with the strong momentum it is carrying from the fourth quarter, 2001 revenues could […]

The price of Yahoo! stock jumped substantially in trading in Europe and Japan overnight as speculation increased that the AOL/Time Warner merger may be putting pressure on the directory and e-commerce site to find a partner. Both Viacom and Disney were mentioned by various analysts as possible suitors. A Yahoo! corporate spokesman told internetnews.com this […]

Pets.com Inc., renamed as IPET Holdings Inc., said that stockholders at a special meeting today approved a plan for “complete liquidation and dissolution of the company.” The failed pet supply company is winding down in an orderly fashion; its board of directors voted last November to discontinue operations after months of searching for venture funding […]

The U.S. Postal Service has launched an electronic version of Certified Mail aimed at letting government agencies send and receive secure documents over the Internet. The technology, called NetPost.Certified, was developed with management and technical support from AT&T Corp., IBM and Keycorp Ltd., an Australian software developer. First to use the new service will be […]

eBay’s decision to raise listing fees about 7 percent while implementing a 10-cent fee for the 10-day listing option made analysts smile and sent the company’s stock climbing in early trading today. Deutsche Bank Alex Brown raised its investment rating on eBay Inc. to “buy” from “market perform” and Goldman, Sachs said it is maintaining […]

Stepping up its B2B effort, Yahoo! Inc. launched Yahoo! Industry Marketplaces, designed to be a one-stop destination for information and services aimed at helping industry professionals to research products, find industry news and make purchasing decisions. At launch, the three niches are covered: electronics, IT software and IT hardware. Each marketplace will provide business owners […]

Monster.com, the flagship brand of TMP Worldwide , said it has received a record daily number of resume submissions so far in January, and added that 36,646 resumes were submitted on Jan. 9 alone. Proving that there is always a silver lining for somebody even when many tech workers are getting pink slips, resume postings […]

Web audience measurement firm NetRatings Inc. and Internet market research firm Harris Interactive Inc. teamed to launch a new research service focused on the e-commerce industry. The service, called eCommercePulse, will cover online consumer spending, behavior and attitudes and will integrate data collected from Harris Interactive’s survey panel of more than seven million online users […]

Ralph Lauren (as in Polo Ralph Lauren, the company , not the individual), has apparently stopped beating up on Keith Collingridge, a Web developer and Internet service provider in Woldingham, England, who recently registered the domain po-lo.com. Polo Ralph Lauren, of course, operates the Polo.com luxury Web site on this side of the pond. Seems […]

Natural language search engine operation Ask Jeeves Inc. named company co-founder Garrett Gruener as chairman, replacing Roger Strauch, who will remain on the company’s board, chairing the compensation and nominating committees. The company, acting to execute on a plan to achieve operating profitability in the fourth quarter of this year, also named James Kirsner to […]

SiteStuff Inc., an e-marketplace for the commercial real estate industry, has acquired RexOffice.com Inc., which connects commercial office buildings and property managers with their tenants via the Internet, in a stock-for-stock transaction. Both companies are privately held and financial specifics were not disclosed. RexOffice is a Web-based portal that functions as a building operating platform […]