Michael Pastore

The expected $8.3 billion e-commerce market in Latin America is not without barriers to success, according to research by Jupiter Communications. Among the obstacles that companies must overcome to achieve success in the Latin American market are low credit card adoption and poor product fulfillment infrastructure, Jupiter’s research found. “The growth we expect through 2005 […]

The absence of widespread U.S.-style unmetered access is dramatically slowing the growth of the U.K. Internet economy, according to a survey by Durlacher. The survey, conducted in 4,000 homes around the U.K., found that residential Internet users in the U.K. would increase the frequency of their Internet access by 46 percent and the duration of […]

After a spectacular 67 percent increase in 1999, revenues in the US Internet services market will increase another 29 percent in 2000 and flirt with the $23-billion mark in 2000, according to International Data Corp. (IDC). According to IDC, America Online and UUNet will lead the market’s drive, as these two ISPs have a commanding […]

European retailers will continue to lose their home market to more experienced U.S. competitors if they do not become more aggressive in creating innovative e-commerce businesses, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). According to the report “The Race for Online Riches — E-Retailing in Europe,” the battle to dominate online retailing in […]

Dot com companies began the fourth quarter with an ad spending explosion, spending $473 million in the month of October alone, up more than 500 percent from the same period a year ago, according to data compiled by Competitive Media Reporting (CMR). The one-month total for October was greater than each of the first quarters […]

Web traffic is fracturing into two broad-based camps, a few broad-based portals and thousands of vertical sites, and the result is a new battle for online marketing dollars, according to a report by Forrester Research. In its report “The Parting of the Portal Seas,” Forrester predicts that 57 percent of all online ad spending will […]

Changing investment habits will propel Europe’s online brokerage accounts to 14 million by 2004, up from 1.3 million accounts today, according to research by Forrester Research B.V. According to Forrester’s report “Online Trading Skyrockets In Europe,” Germany will lead the way in Europe thanks to its growing online population and aggressive online brokers. There are […]

The Latin American Internet services market will see robust growth over the next five years, according to a report by IDC Latin America. Increased demand for access coupled with evolving value-added service supply will help drive a five-year annual growth rate of 42 percent through 2004. At that point, the market will reach a value […]

The rate of growth of online spending per person is declining even though total online retail spending is increasing, according to a study by The Wharton School of Business. The study also found there is a significant dropout rate among online shoppers and 15 percent of online buyers from 1997 did not buy online in […]

The size of the business-to-business e-commerce market is far greater than is commonly reported, according to The Boston Consulting Group, and Electronic Data Interchange plays a large role. One-fourth of all US business-to-business purchasing will be done online by the year 2003, according to a study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The research estimates […]

One quarter of attempted holiday purchases over the Internet typically end without a sale being made, according to a study by Andersen Consulting. Attempting to purchase 480 gifts at 100 different Web sites, Andersen Consulting was able to complete only 350 orders. More than one-quarter of the sites explored could not take orders: they crashed, […]

Advertising by dot com companies in traditional media saw explosive growth over the first three quarters of 1999, with spending at $1.4 billion, up 291.3 percent from the same period last year, according to Competitive Media Reporting (CMR). If those numbers sound impressive, realize they do not include the holiday-season spending. Once included, CMR predicts […]