Beth Cox

Digital River Inc. said it plans to implement a major expansion of its global B2B e-commerce system architecture, and hired a new chief technology officer to help make it happen. To lead the company’s system architecture strategy and development, Digital River appointed Gary Howorka, Ph.D., as chief technology officer. Howorka is a former director with […]

Personalized e-business applications provider BroadVision Inc. and e-commerce solutions provider Commerce One signed a pact to integrate the BroadVision Procurement app with Commerce One’s MarketSite.net portal. Under the agreement, BroadVision will offer access to MarketSite.net to customers of its procurement product, which is built on the company’s BroadVision One-To-One Commerce suite. MarketSite.net is a U.S. […]

Retail and manufacturing B2B exchange services company SPS Commerce launched a Yellow Pages directory, calling the move “part of the company’s commitment to provide customer-focused services to small and mid-sized businesses.” The directory represents “the next generation of sophisticated, pre-qualified, electronically capable companies currently doing business on the SPS Commerce exchange,” enabling retail and manufacturing […]

Dynamic commerce solution provider AuctionWatch.com signed a partner deal with ProPay, providers of a personal payment service that allows users to accept secure credit card payments online, in person or through WAP-enabled devices. The agreement allows AuctionWatch.com’s sellers to accept a credit card directly from buyers, ProPay said, “unlike other payment models that separate the […]

U.S. Home & Garden Inc.’s Egarden.com Inc. subsidiary launched an online wholesale B2B e-marketplace for the lawn and garden products industry, containing more than 26 product categories and 3,000-plus stock keeping units. The Egarden.com site also features an auction operation. The marketplace site was designed to deliver online supplier information to members of the lawn […]

Buyer’s guide producer Active Research Inc. has signed agreements with Clickthebutton.com Inc. and Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and Consumer Reports Online. The partnership with Clickthebutton.com is aimed at creating a one-stop comparison service that offers consumers all the information necessary to make smart shopping decisions, from product information to merchant pricing and […]

eBay Inc. signed a deal with online real estate brokerage zipRealty.com and created a new category called eBay Real Estate. zipRealty.com will provide professional real estate services as part of the new category. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. eBay Real Estate is intended to make property transactions on eBay easier for buyers and sellers, and […]

The Emerging Business Services Division of Automatic Data Processing Inc. signed a deal with America Online Inc. (NYSE:AOL) that will make ADP’s solutions for small business owners available across AOL’s brands. ADP provides payroll, benefits and human resources administration services. Under the agreement, access to ADP’s suite of solutions, which helps small businesses staff, manage, […]

Visa U.S.A. and small-business exchange operator Onvia.com Inc. , are teaming up to create VisaBusiness.com, designed to help smaller companies use the Web more effectively. The new site, scheduled to go live this fall, will be designed specifically to help smaller companies use the Web more effectively for buying and selling products and services, the […]

Moving to provide detailed visitor and usage analysis of increasingly popular streaming media content, WebTrends Corp. upgraded its e-business intelligence and CRM product WebTrends Enterprise Suite to version 5.0. The company said the new release provides in-depth reporting and analysis on Real Networks RealServer, Microsoft Windows Media Player and Apple’s QuickTime and Darwin Streaming Server, […]

Time Warner Books’ electronic publishing division, iPublish.com, unveiled its first list of monthly releases, calling it “the first such list of e-book titles from any major publisher.” iPublish.com, which will launch as an online publishing Web site in the first quarter of next year, will begin distribution of its electronic books this September. The eclectic […]

Online auction operation eBay is teaming up with UltimateBid.com to launch “Tickets and Experiences,” a co-branded theme page on eBay that will market one-of-a-kind experiences with celebs of all kinds. More conventional ticket sales also will be conducted there. The new area “is expected to be a premier online destination for the buying and selling […]