Beth Cox

Online sporting good store Fogdog Sports launched her.fogdog.com, a new sub-site customized for active women and featuring an array of merchandise and information. The sub-site will market apparel and gear designed especially for a woman’s shape and metabolic rate, such as backpacks, wetsuits, wakeboards and sleeping bags. her.fogdog.com has a different look and feel than […]

Online transaction solutions company Ecount said it soon will launch its PrivateBuy service, calling it “the industry’s first product that allows consumers to shop anywhere online anonymously.” The company said that PrivateBuy “combines the convenience of shopping online with the privacy and security of not having to disclose personal information such as name, billing address […]

Internet services company Rare Medium and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver both B2B and B2C e-commerce solutions based on the RareCSP (Commerce Solutions Provider) product. The companies reached an agreement by which they will collaborate on solution development, training, marketing, sales and implementations for RareCSP. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. The agreement designates Rare […]

Internet infrastructure software company Inktomi Corp. this week unveiled its Commerce Engine 3.0, upgraded to include automated merchandising, targeted opt-in e-mail marketing tools and new feature search capabilities. In addition, Inktomi Commerce Engine results can now be tightly integrated with the Inktomi Search Engine and other Web search services, “enabling portals and destination sites to […]

The increasing availability of streaming media content via broadband is driving traditional sources of audio media content, such as local radio stations, to shift their focus onto the Internet and develop original online content, says a new report. The research findings are from Nielsen//NetRatings, the audience measurement service from Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings Inc. […]

AT&T Corp. and Quintus Corp. formed an alliance to provide e-customer relationship management (eCRM) services to call centers worldwide. AT&T said it will offer the Quintus eContact Suite of software to its customers and Quintus will be able to market the existing portfolio of AT&T call center products and services to complement its eCRM communications […]

Forbes.com signed a content agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to provide Yahoo! Finance with editorial content. Yahoo! has created a news hub on Yahoo! Finance to feature Forbes.com’s articles, links to live chats and Forbes’ Lists, including the Forbes Platinum 400 and the Power Celebrity 100. New articles from Forbes.com will be made available daily. Financial […]

BigTray.com launched as a B2B operation aimed at serving the national market for restaurant equipment and supplies. “BigTray has been built from the ground-up to develop an e-commerce business that provides the foodservice operator with a better, easier way to buy equipment and supplies,” said Josh Weinstock, president of BigTray. “Currently, E&S (equipment and supplies) […]

Direct marketing infrastructure company L ifeMinders signed a deal making Air2Web, a wireless application service provider (ASP), the first wireless ASP to distribute LifeMinders wireless personalization and reminder technology to its customer base. LifeMinders also said that more than 1 million members already have registered to receive wireless messages. The company said it is in […]

E-commerce transactions company BEA Systems Inc. launched a developer program, including a new Online Developer Center, featuring incentives and rewards for active members and special product licensing for educational institutions. The program is aimed at helping to accelerate development of e-commerce systems built on Java technology by providing extensive information resources, from special interest discussion […]

A new forecast says that by 2005, e-marketplaces will claim 6 percent of all B2B trade in the European Union as up to a thousand online markets emerge to facilitate Internet business transactions. The report from Forrester Research outlines how these e-marketplaces will start off biased toward buyers and sellers, but will evolve into neutral, […]

Consumer home loan site OnLoan.com is rolling out business-to-business services, including training for mortgage brokers in Florida, Boston, Colorado and northern California to utilize its wholesale-pricing technology and back-office services. “By being strictly Web-based, there is no installation and upgrading of complicated software for the brokers, many of whom are too busy,” said Scott Leon, […]