Paul Nicholls

Impulse! Buy Network and InfoSpace entered into a strategic alliance that will introduce impulse shopping to InfoSpace’s network of 1,500 Web sites and 5,000 merchants. Impulse! said it will provide InfoSpace with a continuous “feed” of time-sensitive product offers in real-time from its base of more than 80 name-brand merchants, including Cyberian Outpost, Egghead, Land’s […]

The MyPoints Program from MotivationNet LLC said it signed 36 new program partners. The MyPoints Program said it rewards members for visiting Web sites, reading targeted e-mail, clicking on ad banners, making online purchases, completing surveys, enrolling in membership programs, downloading software and other Web activities. Members collect points in a secure and private account, […]

ModaCAD Inc. launched its new Web-enabled software application, called Fashion Trip, in the first phase of the company’s long-term strategy to dominate the fashion e-commerce market. The company said Fashion Trip is a tri-faceted application providing young women with personalized, online shopping in a 3-D environment. Fashion Trip has three principal components–a CD application, containing […]

Big Entertainment Inc. said it signed an agreement in principle to sell one-third of its online Studio Store to a group headed by Internet entrepreneur Eric Illowsky for $4 million in cash plus 50% of a planned Direct Response TV Internet site. In addition, Illowsky’s group was granted an option to acquire an additional 10% […]

Some of the leading companies in the Internet industry have jointly produced a new turnkey solution that will compete with the growing list of products aimed at e-commerce-enabling Web sites. The “E-Commerce Quick-Start” product was co-developed by Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company, CyberSource Corp., Exodus Communications, Inc., and Servinet Consulting Group, Inc.. The companies said the […]

In preparation for a holiday season that could see huge growth in the number of Web-based “e-tail” transactions, CyberCash, Inc. today announced the latest addition to its suite of e-commerce products. The company is billing “InstaBuy” as a solution that simplifies online transactions for consumers by providing single-click purchasing functionality. Currently in beta testing, the […]

A new report by consumer researcher @plan found that there are 4.3 million Web users over 55 years old, and they are making a significant impact on e-commerce, especially in categories such as books, business equipment and investing. According to @plan’s latest numbers, Web users above the age of 55 are 37 percent more likely […]

CNNfn.com in New York City formed a strategic partnership with C2B Technologies Inc. to provide integrated, intelligent, e-commerce shopping capabilities through the CNNfn.com Web site. CNNfn said it also will take an undisclosed equity stake in C2B Technologies. Under the agreement, CNNfn.com users will be able to use C2B’s one-stop-shopping platform to identify merchants, access […]

Digital River said that Digidesign, a producer of digital audio products, chose Digital River to build and manage its new online software store. The deal enables Digidesign to sell its Pro Tools software, as well as software from its development partners such as Focusrite, QDesign and Synchro Arts, through its online storefront, the companies said. […]

Bertelsmann AG in Guetersloh, Germany said it named Sun Microsystems’ Solaris SPARC Platform Edition operating environment as a standard corporate platform for UNIX servers and as the preferred platform for Web servers. According to Bertelsmann, the infrastructure for its strategic online activities will be built using the Solaris SPARC Platform Edition operating environment, which was […]

Charles Schwab and E*Trade Group, the two largest electronic brokerages, saw their shares of the online trading market fall in the second quarter as customers flocked to deep discount brokers, Credit Suisse First Boston said in a report. Bloomberg News quoted the report as saying San Francisco-based Schwab’s share of online brokerage fell to 29.7% […]

Open Market Inc. in Burlington, MA formed an alliance with Japanese systems integrator Fujitsu SSL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd. Fujitsu SSL will provide systems integration services to its customers building complete Internet commerce solutions using Open Market’s Transact Internet commerce software package and its enterprise Internet catalog application, LiveCommerce. Financial terms were […]