Beth Cox

adidas America Inc. is winning its own version of Olympic gold through an exclusive sports apparel marketing deal for placement on NBCOlympics.com, presented by NBC/Quokka Ventures (NQV), a joint venture between NBC and Quokka Sports. NBCOlympics.com is home to NBC’s online coverage of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. As part of the agreement (financial arrangements […]

Trust services company VeriSign Inc. launched a new PartnerNet program that it said encompasses relationships with more than 70,000 independent software vendors (ISVs), ISPs, ASPs, Web hosting companies and other providers. Partners are able to access a single source for domain names, Web site digital certificates, online payment services and wireless trust solutions, VeriSign said. […]

If you give ’em free access, they will come. E-tailer BlueLight.com has signed up millions of folks that way, and now bookseller Barnes & Noble.com is taking the same approach, signing a new marketing and promotion deal with Yahoo! and Spinway Inc. as it replaces Amazon.com as the main bookseller at the search site. Barnes […]

Q. What do you get if you turn 300 software developers worldwide loose for two and a half months on the problem of achieving interoperability among some major e-commerce apps and hardware? A. Multiple advances and the end of Phase 1, according to the companies involved — IBM i2 Technologies and Ariba . The alliance […]

Shoppers are losing patience with e-commerce Web sites that don’t perform. And merchants that fail to provide a positive online shopping experience this holiday season risk being out of business by the second quarter of 2001, says research and consulting firm Gartner Group Inc. Mega-money is at stake here, too. Gartner said it is predicting […]

Spurred by a doubling of e-commerce purchases by members, America Online Inc. rolled out a new layout in its shopping area and new tools for shoppers designed to streamline the buying process. AOL said that its members are returning again and again to its Shop@AOL online marketplace to make their purchases, with total online spending […]

Upscale retailer Neiman Marcus signed an e-commerce partner deal with CondeNet’s upcoming Style.com, which will be the online portal for the CondeNast and Fairchild Consumer Magazine Division fashion publications Vogue and W. NeimanMarcus.com will serve as the exclusive online resource for various upscale brands in women’s apparel and accessories for Style.com. Financial arrangements were not […]

E-commerce solutions provider Digital River Inc. is expanding its system to build business-to-education applications adapted to meet the needs of the education market through volume licensing, purchase orders, customer screening and validation, and customer service. Digital River said it “has opened new sales opportunities within the education market” for some of its software clients including […]

Brand name discounter SmartBargains signed a deal with America Online, to become a premier merchant in the new Shop@AOL Bargain Basement area. AOL also made an undisclosed equity investment in SmartBargains. SmartBargains sells merchandise at prices up to 80 percent off retail in categories such as home decor, consumer electronics, men’s and women’s apparel, jewelry […]

Consumer swap site WebSwap.com launched an e-commerce model for visitors that features a shopping area modeled after neighborhood garage sales in which prices of items decrease over time. The opposite of auctions in which prices increase, the model complements the site’s two other ways to buy and sell — fixed price selling and swapping. WebSwap’s […]

Hoping to succeed with a delivery model that has been fraught with problems elsewhere, music and entertainment retailers Virgin Megastores and Virginmega.com formed a partnership with PDQuick (formerly Pink Dot) to provide express home delivery of hot new music releases. Virginmega.com said it will help fans avoid long lines by supplying PDQuick with select new […]

B2B e-commerce enabler PurchasePro.com signed a deal with software giant Computer Associates International Inc. that calls for the latter’s products, including Neugents ii, E-Trust and Jasmine ii, to be integrated into the PurchasePro.com platform. The two companies will jointly market and promote the bundled solutions. Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed. The partnership […]