Beth Cox

Home furnishings site GoodHome.com launched The GoodHome.com Outlet Store, housed within the main site and featuring a selection of furniture, accessories, gifts and other home decorating items at discounts of up to 30 to 40 percent off the original price. The new outlet store will feature styles ranging from classic and English country to urban, […]

Online credit card seekers carry more debt, are more ethnically diverse and more receptive to online branding than the general online population, according to a new study. Online credit card seekers are also younger, primarily male, and more likely to carry larger balances than other segments such as online traders, the study from Cyber Dialogue, […]

Excite@Home signed an agreement with B2B e-commerce information services company OneChannel.net to provide Excite@Home’s e-commerce merchants with value-added sales metrics and transaction analysis. Excite@Home (ATHM) said its E-Business Services customers will have 24/7 access to OneChannel.net’s real-time e-commerce services, which are designed to help merchants make marketing and merchandising decisions, assess up-to-date market share and […]

Office supply retailer Staples.com launched its first international e-commerce site, Staples.com Canada, available in both English and French. The site, provides local inventory and country-specific content to help Canadian small business customers run their offices more efficiently. “With a strong retail presence, excellent brand recognition, a growing catalog business and efficient call centers, Staples is […]

Legal solutions provider USLaw.com Inc. signed a $15 million deal to become the exclusive content provider for a Law Channel on the AltaVista Network. The agreement provides for a direct link from the AltaVista homepage to the new law channel provided by USLaw.com The new co-branded Law Channel is part of the AltaVista personalized portal […]

NAPA Auto Parts, which claims to be the world’s largest auto parts network, launched phase one of “clicks and mortar” store at NAPAonline.com. The launch is part of the company’s plan to combine its nationwide bricks and mortar presence with the latest technology. “NAPA’s depth is unmatched, with the world’s largest ready-to-ship aftermarket parts, accessories, […]

Search operation Ask Jeeves Inc. launched its Webwide Navigation Services, a suite of popularity-based Web navigation products designed to help its clients increase e-commerce and advertising revenue by connecting targeted customers with online merchants and advertisers. The services include Jeeves Popularity Search, Jeeves Directory Search and Jeeves Compare, an online shopping comparison app. Initial clients […]

E-commerce database and Web resource company eWonders.com launched a store search and merchant rating application for wireless users of Palm VII and WAP enabled mobile phones. The company said Palm VII users need to download a small file from ratingwonders.com and sync their unit. WAP enabled mobile phone users simply dial the name of the […]

eGuo.com (it means eCountry in the English translation), a Chinese e-commerce company, said it has launched a one-hour delivery service in Beijing. The service will enable Chinese consumers to purchase a variety of products from the Web site and have them delivered directly to their home or businesses within one hour. Currently, the site offers […]

Wireless data systems and services provider Aether Systems Inc. acquired wireless e-commerce solutions firm NetSearch LLC for $25 million in cash plus up to an additional $65 million over 13 months if NetSearch meets certain revenue goals. NetSearch develops and markets a wireless notification and response system designed to increase sales productivity for companies engaged […]

The Reynolds and Reynolds Co. said it will pay $140 million to acquire HAC Group LLC, a provider of learning, customer relationship management (CRM) and Web services to automotive retailers and manufacturers. Reynolds (REY), moving to bolster its position as an e-business player in the automotive retailing marketplace, recently announced its intent to sell or […]

Entrust Technologies said it will acquire and merge with enCommerce Inc. in a $470 million deal that will create a trust-based e-business infrastructure company and a provider of solutions for enterprise portals, vertical portals and other e-marketplaces. The agreement is structured as a stock-for-stock merger with privately held enCommerce. Entrust (ENTU) Technologies will issue approximately […]