InternetNews Staff

The next big thing on the UK government’s e-agenda is a shakeup of the telecoms’ infrastructure to drive the pace of competition. Patricia Hewitt, minister for Ecommerce and Small Business, told business leaders this week that the next area for “domestic concern following the Electronic Communications Bill has to do with telecom infrastructure and the […]

NIIT and Telstra this week formed an alliance to form a corporate Internet service provider in India. The alliance will offer total Internet service solutions to market in India and the Asia-Pacific. Under this agreement, Delhi-based global IT solutions firm NIIT will provide application solutions for enterprises using Telstra’s managed networking infrastructure and hosting capabilities. […]

New-aged Internet metrics are taking over. Market valuations and volatility are often functions of metrics such as page views, unique monthly visitors, and the number of registered users at a site. Of course I’m guilty as well. New metrics have to be created to explain and support the business models of companies that carry the […]

Looking for your next company to buy? eMergers.com has launched as a site offering free online access to acquisition and sale opportunities for mid-sized companies. The operation “leverages the distribution power of the Internet to broadcast high quality, active opportunities” to a larger target audience than can be reached through traditional investment banking channels, while […]

Market research firm PC Data Online and advertising tracking company Leading Web Advertisers (LWA) this week partnered to develop a service that helps advertisers gauge the effectiveness of their campaigns. The teams are putting together PC Data Online’s sample Internet population of more than 100,000 home users with LWA’s ad tracking. The intention is to […]

Spending on E-mail marketing, which amounted to $898 million last year, will increase 417 percent to reach the $4.6 billion level by 2004, according to the new eMail Marketing Report by eMarketer. The report also predicts that e-mail advertising’s share of total US online advertising spending will increase to 15 percent by 2003. Spending stood […]

The 3M Adhesives Division contracted with what must be the ultimate in sticky Web sites, AdhesivesMart.com. 3M will receive leads generated by visitors to what is claimed to be the world’s largest online searchable database of industrial adhesives. By agreeing to have its products included in this database, 3M will receive qualified sales leads for […]

Start-up Open Ratings said it plans to launch an independent rating service designed to “increase the level of trust, reliability and brand recognition between buyers and sellers in online business to business, consumer and auction marketplaces.” The venture, which apparently would compete in some ways with established player BizRate.com, had been operating under the code […]

Internet issues surged higher from already rosy midday levels amid a number of analyst upgrades and a postive earnings outlook for Amazon.com. Amazon promised in an earnings report Wednesday that its losses would begin to shrink. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index jumped 46.34, or 5.44 percent, to 898.85, the Nasdaq Composite rocketed 137.08 to 4211.04 and […]

Virgin Mobile customers will be able to browse the Web on their phones this spring. The company is introducing a SIM based web-browser which gives users access to wireless markup language websites, such as BBC Online and Virgin’s online music retailer, Megastore Direct. Virgin has already said that it will spearhead the Simalliance Consortium, which […]

Network Solutions said regulators from the EU and the U.S. have closed their antitrust investigations into the dominant registrar of Internet addresses, without further action or inquiry. The separate decisions by the EU and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) were made about a week apart. Brian O’Shaughnessy, a spokesperson at Network Solutions, said: “We […]

A new study of online catalog merchants during the holiday-shopping season indicates that retail sites designed to offer ease of shopping, ease of ordering, ease of order tracking and superior customer service are the winners for both the short and long term. This perhaps is not stunning news, but it does serve as a reminder […]