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In the glory days of e-tailing, many Internet pure plays spent lavishly on customer acquisition and loyalty programs, but corporate naivete and consumer greed proved a crippling combination for those online businesses. As a result, e-tailers were forced to rethink their promotion strategies, esp...

Despite the dot-com downturn, there is still room for small offline retailers on the Web and good reasons for them to be there, according to industry analysts. Gartner research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times that the real value of the Web to small retailers is its ability to pro...

Some eBay users, questioning both the auction giant's motives and requirements for a charity auction benefiting victims of last week's terrorist attacks on the United States, are accusing the company of building its corporate image at their expense. "How dare eBay ask we small sellers to bankroll...

In Part 1 of this primer for small offline businesses that want to go online, we saw how much planning is involved in making the move, from selecting the inventory that will be sold, to choosing which companies will design and host the site. In Part 2, we learn that setting up an e-tail outlet a...

Setting up an e-tail outlet is a natural progression for small offline retailers, according to experts, but in order to succeed, retailers need to plan, plan, plan. For starters, Gartner research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times, retailers need to carefully evaluate whether they ar...

Online payments provider Ecount confirmed to the E-Commerce Times on Monday night that a hacker or hackers breached security at its Web payment site, Webcertificate.com.

Ending weeks of speculation, online currency site Flooz.com closed for good over the weekend and announced it would file for bankruptcy. In a message posted on its site, Flooz blamed the shutdown on "dramatic changes in capital markets and the general slowdown in the economy." Although Flooz had...

Companies in Latin America expect their 2001 Internet revenue to be nearly three times that of their 2000 Internet revenue, according to an IDC report released Thursday. The 1,300 Latin American companies surveyed for IDC's eWorld survey told the Framingham, Massachusetts-based research company...

Taking aim at the lucrative business-to-business (B2B) market, Amazon.com unveiled a corporate accounts initiative Wednesday that will accept online purchase orders from qualified businesses, libraries, schools, government institutions and other organizations that want to purchase items from the ...

Beating the major record labels to the punch, rock star Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label, in collaboration with Womad music festivals and digital music service On Demand Distribution (OD2), launched an online digital subscription music service Tuesday. The service, dubbed the Womad Digita...

By only looking at top-line metrics such as sales and profits, 69 percent of brick-and-click retailers are underestimating the benefits derived from their Web sites, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The report concluded that brick-and-click retailers who factor in ...

Five of Hollywood's major motion picture studios announced Thursday they were partnering to create an online movie service that will offer digital downloads of both new and old movies to broadband Internet users. The studios said service will also be available to other film producers and distribu...

Walmart.com, the e-commerce arm of retail giant Wal-Mart, opened an online college bookstore Wednesday, offering students discounts of up to 30 percent on more than 300,000 titles, including textbooks, study guides and graduate school guides. However, there may be some flaws in Walmart.com's ...

Deborah de Freitas, senior manager of online marketing for Dell Computer, believes that online advertising is the perfect way to sell computers to people accustomed to living in a "hyperlinked world." The only way to buy Dell computers is directly from the company, and Dell aims to take full ad...

Deborah de Freitas, senior manager of online marketing for Dell Computer, believes that online advertising is the perfect way to sell computers to people accustomed to living in a "hyperlinked world." The only way to buy Dell computers is directly from the company, and Dell aims to take full ad...

For the third month in a row, electronics e-tailer X10.com saw more traffic than e-commerce heavyweights eBay and Amazon, according to statistics for July released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. Although X10.com had more visitors than either eBay or Amazon in July, it does not compare favorably...

Defunct online grocer Webvan said Monday that it is soliciting bids for the purchase of its business units, technology platforms and other assets. In a blow to the company's beleaguered shareholders, Webvan also said that it did not expect to have any funds available to distribute to them. "Based...

Internet message boards have been humming with speculation over the past few days that online currency company Flooz.com is going out of business. As of Friday, Flooz itself had left no clear signal of its status and has made itself unavailable for response to any inquiry. The company took its W...

Hoping to cash in on Japan's infatuation with baseball's Seattle Mariners, Internet behemoth Amazon.com launched the Seattle Mariners Store at its Japanese site on Tuesday. Seattle, Washington-based Amazon is partnering with the online arm for Major League Baseball on the new store. Featured prom...

Sixty-four percent of online advertisers will pay more money for placements they view as premium inventory, according to a study released Tuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix at its sixth annual Online Advertising Forum. The study found that 58 percent of media buyers were willing to pay more for prem...