Jayson Matthews

Started in August of this year, the Content Bridge was a content distribution initiative of monolithic proportions: A collection of content delivery network companies, content providers, and hosting companies working to create a single content delivery platform. Headed by Foster City, Calif.-based infrastructure developer Inktomi and portal giant America Online, the initial alliance was a […]

San Francisco-based online rewards company MyPoints.com announced the launch of MyPoints UK today, marking the first of what the company hopes is an extended European presence. According to research firm Jupiter Media Metrix, household Internet usage throughout Europe will more than double, to 71.6% penetration in 2005 from 34.2% in 2000. MyPoints CEO Steve Markowitz […]

Santa Clara-based RivalWatch.com has introduced a strategic business data service that enables eBusinesses to track the product offerings, pricing policies, and promotions of online competitors. Offered under an ASP model, the company’s eMerchandising Platform (eMP) gathers real-time competitive information and makes it available to clients over the Web. “Competing in the Internet arena is a […]

Web ventures set to tackle the potentially lucrative but so far largely unprofitable B2C (Business to Consumer) market have more reasons to worry. New York-based research firm Getzler & Company released a study August 1 reporting that eTailers and content providers have suffered the most as a result of investors’ changing attitude toward Internet companies. […]

Question: How does an ERP, an ISP, or an SD become an ASP without the CRMs worrying the CFO’s when the CPAs say the B2Bs will get TKOd on the WWW? Answer: Outsource, you dumb asp! Like the rampant transition from a B2C to a B2B strategy, the ASP revolution has exploded as the chic […]

When Lumeria Inc. was founded in early 1998, the Berkeley-based company undoubtedly had many advertising executives seeing red. One of the leading privacy and anti-profiling services on the Web today, Lumeria has blocked potentially millions of dollars worth of consumer information from ever reaching marketers’ hands. With the founding of the independent Lumeria Ad Network […]