Beth Cox

About Inc. signed a deal with Styleclick Inc. to be the exclusive mass provider of brand name merchandise from its supplier network on About’s vertical network of 700 topic sites. Styleclick will customize and maintain a universal shopping cart, offering About users a secure transactional platform with guaranteed merchandise. Financial terms were not disclosed. Additionally, […]

The Web is no longer being dominated by stereotypical over-educated Internet geeks, according to a new industry research report that says the online world is undergoing a significant demographic shift. The report, based on research for the Yankee Group’s Interactive Consumer Survey (IAC) 2000, indicates that the average online consumer is increasingly likely to be […]

Walt Disney Internet Group has teamed with eBay to produce Disney Auctions, a site where everything from original Disneyland signs to tickets to the premiere of “102 Dalmatians” will be sold directly from The Walt Disney Company. Disney Auctions features authentic, rare and one-of-a-kind items from every aspect of Disney’s entertainment legacy, the company said. […]

E-business applications providers InterWorld Corp. and Online Retail Partners Inc. (ORP ) are teaming up to deliver end-to-end e-commerce solutions and services across a range of industries. InterWorld provides software solutions for sell-side e-commerce, and ORP provides integrated management and technology resources for building online businesses. The companies said they will jointly develop an ASP […]

Battered but apparently unbowed, name-your-own-price e-commerce company Priceline.com has selected Equant to help it expand operations into Europe, Australia and Asia. The first of these new ventures, Priceline.com Europe, will launch later this year, Equant said. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the contract, Equant is providing the e-commerce application that will […]

Shares of Stamps.com were off as much as 17 percent at one point today after Chairman and CEO John Payne stepped down and the company issued a statement that among other things said it would “explore … strategic alternatives for the company.” Former U.S. Postmaster General Marvin Runyon was named interim chairman and the company, […]

Online discount and clearance sale e-tailer Overstock.com acquired Gear.com, a close-out sporting goods e-tailer, and also spent $2.5 million to purchase the remaining inventory from defunct sites Miadora.com and Jewelry.com. Overstock.com said the jewelry site inventories are valued at more than $12 million retail. “By absorbing these inventories and combining our traffic, we are primed […]

Novell Inc. signed an agreement with e-commerce service provider Digital River Inc. to manage the e-business portal shopNovell. Novell said the move is aimed at enhancing e-commerce efficiencies and increasing cost savings to end-users. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. shopNovell is an e-business portal delivering Novell Net services software to end-users, and to Novell’s existing […]

Approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population, or 55 million people, are expected to visit online shopping sites from home this holiday season, says a newly released industry report. And for many, toy e-tailers will be their first destination. All told, about 14 million more shoppers will be going online this year compared to last […]

Gomez Advisors Inc., the latest research firm to enter the online holiday sales guessing/predicting game, came in with an estimate of $11.4 billion, about double what was spent last year. Earlier predictions included something in the vicinity of $10 billion by both Forrester Research and Pricewaterhousecoopers, and a prediction of $19.5 billion worldwide by Gartner […]

Ratcheting its already extensive Internet involvement up a notch, Eastman Kodak Co. made an equity investment in PhotoAlley.com and signed a marketing deal with Circuit City Stores Inc. . In addition to Kodak’s unspecified equity investment in Photo Alley.com, the two companies will collaborate on joint initiatives to drive sales of conventional and digital photography […]

E-commerce application companies i2 Technologies Inc. and BroadVision Inc. said they will team to produce a combined solution integrating front-end multi-enterprise order capture and creation with back-end order management and fulfillment capabilities. The joint development agreement calls for a comprehensive e-commerce solution that will marry the i2 TradeMatrix Sell and i2 TradeMatrix Content Solutions with […]