Paul Nicholls

A new company called GoodNoise Corp. in Palo Alto, CA hopes to capitalize on the growing demand for online music delivery via downloadable recordings. The founders said it is the first record company to focus on the Internet as the primary platform for the sale and electronic delivery of music. The company launched its own […]

Federated Department Stores Inc. in Cincinnati said it is establishing Macys.com as a separate, free-standing subsidiary of the corporation. Federated said it is the nation’s first traditional department store retailer to create a separate subsidiary dedicated to capitalizing on Internet commerce opportunities. Based in San Francisco, Macys.com is headed by president Kent Anderson, a veteran […]

Ever-expanding portal player Yahoo! Inc. today announced the latest addition to its stable of sites, Yahoo! Real Estate. The company becomes the latest in a list of sites to add a real estate offering, a resource that is becoming an increasingly popular choice for portals as they aim to expand electronic commerce and advertising opportunities, […]

Shop.org in Silver Spring, MD, the online retailers association, and RT, a technology magazine for retail executives, will team up this fall to present eRetailing ’98: The Online Retailing Summit at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Shop.org represents all segments of online retailing on the Internet, including virtual retailers, conventional retailers, catalogers, manufacturers, […]

Battery Ventures in Wellesley, MA said it invested $6 million in e-commerce company EC Cubed of Wilton, CT as part of a total financing round of $11.5 million. Joining Battery are BancBoston Ventures, Walden Group of Funds and Crystal Internet Ventures. Tom Crotty, general partner of Battery, will join the EC Cubed board of directors. […]

International Barter Corp. in Seattle said it is beta testing an online site for bartering products and services that will be launched as Ubarter.com on July 20. Steven White, president and CEO of Ubarter.com, said it is “the first site to promote the concept of ‘barter’ for the general Internet user” and differs from existing […]

Washington, DC-based Deskgate Technologies launched its VIApublisher E-Commerce Suite that allows for publications, music and video to be received, paid for and read at a user’s e-mail inbox. Publishers can produce e-mail editions of their hardcopy or online publications that look and feel like the original allowing readers to view pages 60 times faster than […]

Disney’s Buena Vista Internet Group and N2K‘s Music Boulevard entered into an electronic commerce and marketing agreement today under which Music Boulevard becomes the exclusive music retailer on the Disney.com and ABC.com sites. In addition, Disney’s ABC Radio Networks and Music Boulevard said they will jointly create a series of Web sites for ABC’s affiliate […]

Site Technologies announced the availability of SiteSweeper 2.0 Enterprise Edition, billing the product as the industry’s “first comprehensive server-based Web site quality analysis tool.” The new product is designed to deliver universal access from any client, provide centralized quality control of Web sites throughout the enterprise, and lower the cost of ownership in multi-user corporate […]

Impulse! Buy Network Inc. in Burlingame, CA said it has now signed more than 50 merchants to participate in its new Internet merchandising service. Impulse!’s authoring tools allow merchants to create a variety of product offers, including discount items, auctions, free delivery, etc, and then distribute them to online consumers through Impulse!’s network of Web […]

America Online and Videos Now, a division of Digital Courier Technologies Inc. (formerly DataMark Holding Inc.), signed a $12 million deal for the sale of videos on AOL and Digital Cities. Under the three-year agreement, AOL will receive guaranteed payments of $12 million plus warrants to purchase up to $2 million in Digital Courier stock. […]

San Francisco-based HomeShark Inc. an online real estate operation, entered a partnership with Rent Net that will give the latter’s users access to HomeShark’s discounted mortgages and home buying tools designed to help them make the transition from renter to owner. HomeShark joins Century 21, ERA and Coldwell Banker in Rent Net’s Homebuyers Center. Financial […]