Beth Cox

Cable operator Comcast Corp. and its majority-owned shopping network QVC Inc., through a joint venture company, invested $40.8 million and took a 19 percent stake in Global Sports Inc. , a developer and operator of e-commerce sporting goods businesses. The investors also purchased warrants for an additional stake in Global Sports, which, if exercised fully, […]

eBay Inc. signed a deal making auction management tools and services company Andale Inc. the sole provider of integrated counters and counter-related services to eBay sellers. The counters will be available directly from the eBay marketplace and accessible from the listing process. Counters are a value-added tool used by auction sellers and are the sellers’ […]

Loyalty marketer MyPoints.com Inc. signed a three-year, multi-million-dollar pact making MasterCard International a preferred provider on its site and linking the companies for integrated marketing initiatives to reach consumers both online and off. Not only will MasterCard be the preferred payment provider on the MyPoints Shopping! network, but also MasterCard becomes a MyPoints.com client, enabling […]

E-commerce solutions provider Commerce One Inc. unveiled plans to develop a network to deliver quality e-catalog content to Commerce One-powered e-marketplaces across multiple industries worldwide. The network will be based on the Commerce One Content Refinery technology infrastructure. Definitive documents for the new network are expected to be executed in the fourth quarter of 2000, […]

Internet Shopping Outlet’s Shoplet.com signed a partner deal with Intranets.com that will allow the B2B and B2C online marketplace deliver free, branded intranets to its small and medium size business customers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Both companies are privately held. Shoplet.com, which claims more than 1.3 million subscribed users, aims to be a destination […]

Troubled VISTA Information Solutions Inc. , a B2B information and technology provider to the real estate industry, said that Thomas R. Gay is stepping down as president and CEO and will become chairman of the company he founded in 1990. Gay will focus on developing strategic alliances aimed at expanding VISTAinfo’s real estate channel position. […]

RestaurantRow, an online service that says it can help you make reservations at any of 110,000-plus restaurants in 7,000 cities, signed up to use new wireless technology from Livemind, which just launched its Contextual Commerce (C2) Engine. The C2 Engine matches revenue-generating products with personalized content to facilitate transactions over the Web via any wireless […]

IBM signed a deal with BroadVision Inc. that will enable it to integrate BroadVision’s suite of One-To-One e-business applications on its RS/6000 servers. The agreement provides IBM customers with more choices for building and deploying their B2B and B2C e-business Web sites, and IBM Global Services will create a practice of service professionals around the […]

Cyberian Outpost’s Outpost.com , an Internet retailer of high-end consumer technology products, will acquire CMPExpress, a privately held online retailer of technology products to the business market, in a $12 million, all-stock deal. The move gives Outpost.com, which has seen its stock drop into the $3 range from an all-time high of over $45, a […]

Furthering its strategy to move into the wireless arena, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch Inc. signed a deal with wireless communications company Nextel Communications Inc. to offer Nextel Online customers TMCS’ content and transactions via wireless handsets. TMCS last July announced a similar deal with AT&T Digital PocketNet for its wireless customers and with Verizon Wireless Mobile Web […]

Staking a claim in the content delivery business, AmericanGreetings.com acquired eAgents, provider of an online news product that delivers consolidated information and entertainment from a variety of Web media brands in a single, daily e-mail. AmericanGreetings.com is a subsidiary of American Greetings Corp. Financial terms were not disclosed, but as part of the agreement, Charles […]

B2B e-commerce in the U.S. will grow from $1.2 trillion this year to $4.8 trillion in transaction value by 2004, says a new research report, and this despite the fact that “price negotiations and online collaboration have still to migrate online in a significant way.” The report is contrary to what some nay-sayers are predicting […]