Beth Cox

Despite the recent decline in venture capital investment in Internet retail companies, the North American Internet retailing market is on track to surpass $29.3 billion in 2000, an increase of 75 percent over 1999 revenues, says a new industry study. The report from technology research and consulting firm Gartner Group Inc. says that in 1999, […]

Telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson and e-commerce solutions firm InterWorld Corp. formed an alliance to develop, market and sell next-generation wireless e-commerce applications and services for both the B2B and B2C markets. The deal is an extension of a current agreement; the two companies have been collaborating for about two years and are nearing completion on […]

Excite@Home will integrate RealCall Alert, a Web call back service, into its suite of online storefront creation tools. RealCall said the service enhances merchant sites, making it easier for consumers to buy on the Internet by adding real-time, live customer service. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. RealCall Alert will provide Excite@Home’s Web merchants with an […]

Although U.S. companies will outsource close to $20 billion this year for the strategy, marketing, design and technical services involved in building advanced e-commerce sites, many integrators are falling down on the job, says a new industry report. The prime beneficiaries of this spending are the e-commerce integrators (eCIs) — professional services firms that design, […]

Online B2B transactions are expected to reach more than $6 trillion by 2005, representing 42 percent of total business-to-business non-service spending in the United States, says a new industry study. The research from Jupiter Communications Inc. says that while this year’s B2B trade on the Internet will only represent 3 percent of the total U.S. […]

TheLinuxStore.com delivered two turnkey Linux e-commerce solutions, the Commerce 2000 and Commerce 2500 servers, both of which bundle servers, operating systems and e-commerce applications into one package. TheLinuxStore.com is a division of EBIZ Enterprises Inc., Talentsoft Inc. and TurboLinux Inc. The three parents teamed up to provide key components of the new solutions, including the […]

Web-based B2B real estate solutions provider RealEstate.com and Cityfeet.com, a provider of for-lease space listings and real estate services signed an agreement to create an online database of commercial real estate space available for lease. The agreement includes co-branded Web applications and provides businesses access to Cityfeet’s local market property listings. Financial arrangements between the […]

E-commerce revenue growth this year is projected to be strongest for B2B and Media/Portal companies that, overall, arrived online somewhat later than those that sell direct to consumers, says a new industry report. In fact, year over year increases for B2B survey respondents who participated in ActivMedia Research’s annual “Real Numbers Behind Net Profits” study […]

Online sporting goods retailer Fogdog Inc. launched an institutional store offering products for institutional, school and recreational buyers. Targeting the $20 billion institutional sporting goods market, the new store will sell everything from baseballs by the dozen to scoreboards, goalposts and bleachers, the company said. The move follows last week’s launch of a women’s sporting […]

Investment intelligence forum iExchange.com signed a deal with Lycos to provide the Lycos Investment Channel and Quote.com with investment research and stock ideas from its “analysts” on a new co-branded site. iExchange.com will be Lycos’s exclusive provider of predictive analysis and research from individual investors for two years. Financial terms of the revenue sharing agreement […]

PlanetClick.com, a search engine operation that returns results based on ratings by Web surfers, launched an online shopping mall that allows consumers to rate and review shopping sites. The merchant ratings influence the over-all rankings in the company’s Web Discovery Engine, a “people-powered search engine” that lists sites according to how they’ve been rated by […]

Macromedia Inc. upgraded its real-time LikeMinds Web personalization solution to version 5.0, saying the new release extends the power of brick-and-mortar marketing technology to e-businesses. This version offers “more relevant product recommendations” and was designed to increase average order size and customer retention, the company said. Macromedia also released a version of LikeMinds 5.0 software […]