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Business-to-business e-commerce solutions provider SPS Commerce said that Fingerhut Companies Inc. has contracted to use its e-commerce services to automate transaction processing throughout its entire supply chain. Fingerhut’s supply chain is comprised of nearly 1,500 trading partners. The value of the contract was not disclosed. Fingerhut is a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores Inc. It […]

A new industry report estimates that 19.4 million Americans will shop online this holiday season, representing 28 percent of online adults, or 10 percent of all U.S. adults. The total includes only those adults who said they had made online purchases in the past or who had not purchased online in the past but said […]

eTreats.com has launched as an e-commerce site offering access to a network of small neighborhood shops from around the United States that provide hand-crafted confections, candies, gourmet items and fruit baskets. “In more than 25 years in the food industry, I’ve seen small, independent bakers and candy makers forced out of business or struggle to […]

Sportus, a new sports-oriented shopping site led by some familiar names, debuts its storefront in Sweden and prepares for an immediate lunge at the global market. Sportus.se aims to be the largest interactive sports store in Sweden, and the company already has plans to roll out its e-tail model on a global scale. Sportus will […]

Shell Ireland Monday rolled out a new intranet system to allow for timely and frequent collection of each retail outlet’s daily sales and wet stock control data. The intranet, made possible with Silverstream Software Inc.’s application server, enables Shell to rapidly analyze each local pricing and sales situation for comparison against a nation-wide sample of […]

Eltrax Systems Inc. Monday launched Inndemand.com, the company’s first applications server provider (ASP) product, designed for the hospitality industry. The initial market for Inndemand.com will be the budget and economy hotels in the U.S, which includes over 14,000 hotels and is an under-used segment of the hospitality industry for automation systems and support. Because many […]

American Express Co. took the wraps off its revamped online brokerage Monday, launching a site that will go head-to-head with players like E*Trade, Datek, DLJ Direct, Schwab and Ameritrade. American Express (AXP) has been offering online brokerage services through its Financial Direct division since 1996, but, with this new offering — which offers more mutual […]

Good news for travel sites: A new survey shows that a vast majority of online shoppers say they will make their holiday travel plans via the Internet this year. According to a survey released by e-commerce rating and marketing research firm BizRate.com, the two-day survey, which drew more than 7,700 respondents, revealed that 85 percent […]

LookSmart and Inktomi Corp. Monday formed an alliance to develop and market customized search directories for vertical portals, and intend to use the new creation as a standard for navigation. Under the terms of the deal, (LOOK) LookSmart will adopt Inktomi’s search engine and directory engine technology and will offer customized versions of the directory. […]

Server appliance developer Cobalt Networks Inc. Friday joined forces with Coyote Point Systems to offer clients an integrated solution for ISPs deploying load balanced server clusters. Offered together are Cobalt’s RaQ Internet server appliances and Coyote Point’s Equalizer 4.0, an intelligent load balancing appliance. The RaQ offers turn-key virtual hosting in a rack-mountable enclosure designed […]

America Online Inc. said that it has signed more than 160 new e-commerce agreements with retailers to offer brand-name goods and services through the Shop@AOL marketplace. The Shop@AOL destination, accessible across AOL’s portfolio of interactive brands, will offer luxury goods, home furnishings, fine art and an apparel category. The majority of these commerce partners also […]

Expanding its focus on small business and the people behind it, Bloomberg.com launched its Entrepreneur Network, designed as a one-stop destination site that pools the resources of Bloomberg with other business content and service providers. The new site features exclusive news, data and tools gathered from Bloomberg’s newswire feeds, video, indexes, book excerpts, magazine articles, […]