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“Creeping credit card security concerns pose a substantial threat” to the growth of e-commerce, says a new industry report. But there is some good news in the latest @plan Internet Poll. The study found strong evidence that online retail has reached critical mass and will likely give traditional forms of retail a bona-fide challenge this […]

The Neptune Society, one of the nation’s largest cremation companies, launched an e-commerce Web site to market its services “pre-need,” as they say in the industry. The Neptune Society said it has provided “an easier, non-intimidating, low-pressure atmosphere” on its site as an alternative to the traditionally sales-focused environment associated with the industry. The Neptune […]

ePublicEye.com, an aggregator of customer satisfaction data on small to mid-sized e- companies, signed a deal with La OpiniC3n, a Spanish language newspaper serving the U.S. market, to help Spanish-speaking consumers find reliable Internet merchants. The partnership has launched a Spanish version of ePublicEye.com’s merchant monitoring and rating service. The service allows subscribing merchants to […]

Web 3000.com, publisher of NetSonic, a free “Internet Accelerator,” signed a partner agreement with Gator.com, which offers a smart online companion that remembers passwords and fills in order forms for consumers at every site on the Web. “By offering Gator to our NetSonic users, we are providing even more value to them by streamlining their […]

E-commerce analysis company FollowUp.Net added a new Web site analysis tool called CartTrakker to its suite of customer profiling applications. CartTrakker is designed to tell Internet merchants why their customers abandon a shopping cart before completing a purchase. “Over half of all shopping carts are abandoned before check-out,” said Chris Woods, CEO of FollowUp.Net. “With […]

Privately held online print shop iPrint.com said that it has raised $20 million in third-round funding led by Softbank Venture Capital. iPrint.com has raised $31 million s since launching in 1997. AT&T Ventures also participated in the this round, as well as existing shareholders including Intel Corp., Canaan Partners, ITV (Information Technology Ventures), the Robertson […]

A new industry report says that business-to-business companies that market online attribute one in six revenue dollars, or 17 percent of total business revenues, to their Internet presence. Most of this contribution to business success was generated in less than three years — the average time online for B-to-B marketers in the study was just […]

Taking another step in the direction of wireless Internet services, Ericsson Wednesday announced plans to trial its GPRS system in more than 45 operators in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. GPRS — General Packet Radio Services — introduces packet data to mobile networks, and is considered part of the migration to third generation (3G) mobile […]

Nokia Networks Thursday rolled out a GPRS wireless communications upgrade for new and existing Nokia GSM digital cellular operator clients. General Packet Radio Service, an efficient solution for the use of limited bandwidth that is particularly suited for sending and receiving small bursts of data, such as e-mail and Web browsing, is 60 times faster […]

@viso, the venture capital company created by French conglomerate Vivendi and Softbank, has named its first round of US partners. The company has chosen e-tailer buy.com, E-Loan, Web hosting service Interliant, MessageMedia, and Vstream as its first investments. The venture fund holds 50 percent of buy.com, Interliant and Message Media and 37 percent of E-Loan. […]

Radio station KIISFMi opened on WebRadio.com with Webcast, the revolutionary Internet-only “plug-in free” superstation, using GEO Interactive’s Emblaze technology. KIISFMi is the product of Los Angeles radio station 102.7 KIIS-FM, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, and Hot Radio and Hot Radio Networks, a division of InXsys Broadcast Networks, the broadcast division of BuySellBid.com. GEO […]

Data warehousing company Acta Technology Inc. said it has raised $14.5 million in its third round of financing, bring the company’s funding total to $24 million. “Acta has developed an impressive suite of solutions,” said Garrett Van Wagoner, president of Van Wagoner Funds, the lead investor in the third-round. “We anticipate that this funding will […]