Beth Cox

Travel marketing and distribution company Sabre Holdings Corp. will acquire GetThere Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at $757 million. The travel giant also said it will cut 1,200 jobs, or about 11 percent of its employees. Sabre said it would buy all outstanding shares of GetThere common stock at $17.75 per share. GetThere closed […]

GoTo Auctions, a unit of GoTo , has launched a pilot program for its new ChannelFusion application, a new product for businesses that integrates the auction process with a company’s existing back-end systems. The product links into a retailer’s inventory systems, and can move inventory directly to more than 200 auction sites across the Internet, […]

The business of selling new cars is getting tougher all the time for conventional dealerships. The customers come armed with information gleaned from the Internet, there’s competition on what seems like a zillion Web sites, and even Amazon.com is entering the game in an alliance with Greenlight.com. But the Ford Dealer Council, with 4,200 dealer-members […]

Can Oracle make eCRM work by giving it away? Perhaps but analysts are cautious and several say Siebel, the undisputed leader in electronic Customer Relationship Management applications, has nothing to worry about despite a little investor concern. The market hiccuped on the news that Siebel Systems Inc. will face some competition from Oracle Corp. in […]

NBC/Quokka Ventures, a joint venture of NBC and Quokka Sports, signed a deal with IBM to provide e-commerce and hosting solutions for NBCOlympics.com and the site’s U.S. Olympic Store. IBM will use its WebSphere Commerce Suite software to manage online shopping for the store. Financial arrangements were not disclosed; however, IBM will be an advertiser […]

Office supply retailer Staples Inc. is installing in-store Business Solutions Centers that merge the online clicks of its Staples.com operation with the bricks and mortar world of its stores. The company said that the new centers give a store the ability to operate more efficiently and productively, to expand its virtual inventory by offering more […]

Lucy.com, an online store that sells women’s workout wear, issued a statement slamming recent media coverage of its privacy practices as “inaccurate, misleading and damaging to our reputation.” The company was referring to news stories that raised questions concerning its relationship with Coremetrics Inc., a data analysis ASP that says it offers a “comprehensive eMarketing […]

Vicom Multimedia Inc. launched an e-commerce site on VerticalNet’s SafetyOnline community and will market its Construction Safety Training System (CSTS) at the site for occupational safety professionals. VerticalNet Inc. operates a number of B2B trading communities. Financial arrangements between the companies were not disclosed. “With nearly 500,000 users last year, SafetyOnline offers us an effective […]

Electronic commerce applications company Intershop is acquiring Berlin, Germany-based Subotnic GmbH, which specializes in the development of content management software and solutions designed to integrate with e-commerce systems. Intershop said the acquisition “significantly expands its product offering” by adding Content Integrated Commerce functionality to its flagship enterprise product, Intershop enfinity. Financial terms of the deal […]

One of the cool things about FAO Schwarz in New York is that you can actually play with the toys — remember Tom Hanks in the movie “Big?” Well, now the company has added a “virtual playroom” for cyber kids of all ages in a re-launch of its FAO.com e-commerce site. The New York City […]

Verity Inc. said that e-commerce enabling company Network Commerce has signed on to use its strategic e-commerce knowledge retrieval solutions. Network Commerce is using the scaleable Verity K2 Toolkit as an information processing and linguistic analysis solution. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. The Verity K2 Toolkit allows brokered searches across multiple servers and multiple CPUs. […]

Real-time e-business infrastructure company TIBCO Software Inc. delivered TIB/Rendezvous TX, an advanced e-business software for complex, scaleable, e-business transactions. The company called the product “a robust backbone that enables rapid development and deployment of real-time, reliable e-business systems that can manage customizable business-to-business transactions.” Rendezvous TX communicates in real-time among disparate business applications, both new […]