Beth Cox

NCR Corp. , one of the granddaddies of the retail-enabling business, launched a new service designed to help small- and medium-sized real-world retailers profitably establish and enhance their e-commerce presence. The new e-shopping service can integrate a retailer’s web presence with its existing environment, allowing store operators serve their customers both online and in their […]

Total e-tail sales online were stalled in July, increasing by less than 1 percent from $4.01 billion in June to $4.03 billion, according to the latest survey from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Forrester Research Inc. in conjunction with research firm Greenfield Online. The NRF/Forrester Online Retail Index survey was the seventh in the […]

E-commerce transaction services company CyberSource Corp. delivered two new professional services offerings aimed at helping businesses reduce potential online fraud through integration, tuning and training. The Jump-Start and Tune-Up offerings are the first pre-packaged fraud solutions from the company’s Global Professional Services Group, which works for customers by providing custom integration, optimization and enhancement of […]

Polaroid Corp. deployed Blue Martini Software’s Java-based Customer Interaction System for its new polaroidwork.com B2B site. The first phase of the polaroidwork.com site guides business and professional customers to targeted photography applications and products to meet their business requirements. The site directs customers to channel providers who sell and deliver Polaroid products. These capabilities are […]

Online shopping service Respond.com signed a partner deal with ConsumerREVIEW.com, a provider of consumer product information on the Web, and will integrate product reviews written by consumers into its Web site. In turn, ConsumerREVIEW.com now features Respond.com’s “shop by request” service as a shopping alternative on its network of sites. “Our relationship with Respond.com allows […]

SBC Communications Inc. companies Pacific Bell and Southwestern Bell signed with CheckFree for electronic billing and payment for Customers in California, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas. Customers in those states will be able to pay their bills at nearly 200 Web sites that offer CheckFree’s electronic billing and payment services, including the U.S. Postal […]

Kmart Corp., Softbank Venture Capital and Softbank Capital Partners made an additional investment of $80 million in the independent e-tailing start-up BlueLight.com, founded last December and now in beta. Kmart will invest $55 million and Softbank an additional $25 million to continue the development of BlueLight.com, which recently announced it has reached the three million-subscriber […]

ForRetail Inc. said it is enhancing its service and tech solutions to become a vertical B2B Applications Service Provider specifically designed to help fragmented sectors of the retail industry such as giftware, home accents and home furnishings start doing business online. The company’s collaborative e-commerce solution offers customers their own transactional Web site that works […]

SalesHound.com, an online source for information on advertised sales at brick-and-mortar stores, signed an agreement with destination site Women.com to provide the latter’s audience with a way to search for the best shopping deals off-line. The alliance will offer Women.com visitors localized information about a variety of shopping-themed topics, such as tips for serious shoppers, […]

To succeed in the future, companies must understand how today’s e-marketplaces are quickly evolving into four distinct categories and they must reassess their current strategies to capitalize on these opportunities, says a new report. In fact, the current definitions used to describe B2B e-marketplaces “do not accurately reflect the opportunities or risks companies face in […]

The Route 66 and jr-s.com affordable clothing lines that have been exclusively available in Kmart stores found an online outlet as well when the giant retailer’s BlueLight.com e-commerce effort launched Web stores at its site for each brand. The move marks the first time these brands, featuring quality clothes under $25, will be available on […]

Nordstrom.com signed an agreement with AltaVista Business Solutions allowing the department store e-commerce site to employ AltaVista Search Engine 3.0 to let customers search for products. Web search firm AltaVista Co. is a majority-owned operating unit of CMGI Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “As we continue to add more to our […]