Beth Cox

Location-sensitive wireless ASP GeePS.com Inc. was selected by the 220-store Palisades Center shopping mall in West Nyack, NY to test the wireless delivery of targeted, local shopping information and news to consumers. Palisades Center, with two million square feet of retail space, “will become the first major mall in the United States to offer stores […]

America Online Inc. launched AOL Mobile services on AT&T’s Digital PocketNet service, giving users wireless access to the service as well as to AOL’s other brands. AOL said it will have top placement in the Portals channel of the Digital PocketNet service premium offer. Separately, AOL signed an agreement with OmniSky Corp., a provider of […]

Consumer products juggernaut Procter & Gamble signed a two-year, multi-brand sponsorship deal with Bolt, a Web site and communications platform that caters to 15- to 20-year-olds. Bolt said it will leverage its proprietary suite of tools and services and its interactive relationship with its approximately 3.5 million members to develop strategic marketing programs for a […]

The up and coming North American B2B e-marketplace market grew 171 percent in 1999, propelled by both “brick-to-click” distributors and established dot-com marketplaces, says a new study on this Internet business niche. The report from research and consulting firm Gartner Group Inc. also says that e-market maker revenue reached nearly an estimated $500 million in […]

Extending its reach farther into the mobile commerce space, online retailer Amazon.com launched Mobile Auctions, a wireless service that offers alerts and bidding capability in Amazon Auctions for mobile phone users. Auction space competitor eBay last May launched eBay Anywhere, a mobile strategy that aims to make eBay accessible from WAP mobile phones and various […]

They store any information you may enter on their Web site. They use cookies to track you. They sometimes buy information about you from other sources. They are Amazon.com Inc., and they are no different from lots of other e-tail operations, except that today they adopted a beefed up disclosure policy. They also took the […]

Shopping sites are still among the traffic leaders, despite investor concerns about the viability of e-tail. Web traffic figures for July show that Internet shopping sites are continuing to pull in hordes of consumers – in fact 42 percent of home surfers visited e-commerce sites last month. The figures are from Web audience measurement service […]

Microsoft’s Expedia.com travel service launched a new service called the Exchange Calculator, an app that provides customers with estimated costs for changing previously purchased tickets. Calling it “an industry first,” Expedia said the calculator is designed to eliminate the time customers would spend talking with an agent, and instead gives them the power to make […]

Online retailers have “marginally improved their performance” while taking concrete steps to increase overall profitability, according to a newly released industry study. The second quarter survey of online retailers by Shop.org and The Boston Consulting Group found that customer acquisition costs have decreased and sales per visitor have risen slightly. The report also found that […]

Secure electronic payment solutions company Trintech Group plc is acquiring privately held U.K.-based Checkline plc, a transaction processing and electronic card payment company with expertise in mobile commerce, for about $44 million. Trintech said the deal reinforces its commitment “to becoming the dominant global provider of secure e-payment infrastructure solutions for e-commerce and mobile commerce […]

B2B e-commerce platform provider Ariba Inc. delivered Ariba Buyer 7.0, the latest version of its application for the automation and management of corporate sourcing, buying and internal business processes. The new Ariba Buyer, with functions ranging from requisition to payment to travel and expense, now has language, currency and localization features designed to expedite international […]

Nortel Networks in conjunction with Broadbase Software Monday delivered the Nortel Clarify Analytic Applications, new tools for using information analysis to tailor relationships for specific customer needs. The solutions launch into the market for analytical CRM tools, a market that industry research firm Datamonitor has predicted will reach $3 billion by year’s end. The jointly […]