Articles by James Hollander

One could forgive the judges of AdWeek IQ's Interactive Marketing Award for being blinded by the glossy luminescence of Victoria's Secret's supermodels. Many American males, after all, have lost their power of deductive reasoning after looking at the lingerie company's skimpy offerings Surely, however, AdWeek IQ will say they were all business when...

The revenues keep on growing for leading e-commerce retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN). So do the losses On Wednesday, Amazon.com reported its second-quarter results, announcing that net sales were $314.4 million (US$), an increase of 171 percent over the same period last year. The company also reported a second-quarter pro forma net loss of $82.8 ...

A gateway for Generation "Y" shoppers who talked their parents into establishing a credit card account on the site, RocketCash announced Wednesday that it secured $8.2 million (US$) in a second round of equity funding The privately owned Saratoga, California-based company said investment firms Sierra Ventures and Interwest Partners were the primary...

US Search, a recently public company that bills itself as the "public record portal," now has a home on top portal site Yahoo! Today, Yahoo! and US Search, which helps customers find long-lost friends or relatives, announced a premier merchant agreement. US Search's services will now be featured on Yahoo! via category page banners, fixed placement ...

Fatbrain.com (Nasdaq: FATB), an online bookstore designed for corporate professionals, suddenly has more than 140,000 new potential customers Today, Fatbrain.com announced a multiyear deal with leading telecommunications and network company Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU). Lucent has signed up for Fatbrain.com's FindITNow intranet bookstore program,...

Back in early 1998 when Laurie McCartney was pregnant with son Jack and shopping for maternity and infant clothes, she surely could not have envisioned herself 18 months later issuing press releases about receiving $14 million in equity funding for her start-up company That in a nutshell is the e-commerce industry, where a notion yesterday could be...

The competition is fierce among leading online women's networks with major players like iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL), Oxygen and Women.com battling for eyeballs and dollars. iVillage just added a little more ammo Monday, e-commerce fashion site Styleclick.com (Nasdaq: IBUY) announced that it has signed a deal with iVillage to host a co-branded shopping ...

As the searing summer sun continues to bake city sidewalks up and down the East Coast, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and TicketMaster Online-CitySearch (Nasdaq: TMCS) decided to produce a little asphalt heat of their own The two companies announced Monday that TicketMaster-CitySearch would acquire Microsoft's MSN Sidewalk city guides for $240 million (U...

Last week's highly successful initial public offering for China.com caught many of the pundits off guard and demonstrated that the Asian-Pacific market -- despite its numerous obstacles -- is too inviting for many e-commerce companies to pass up ZiaSun Technologies, Inc., an Internet holding company, is hoping that the attention being paid to e-com...

When it comes to two companies fighting it out for industry supremacy, the traditional sanctity of the court gives way to the immediacy of the press San-Francisco-based Providian Financial Corp. responded Friday to NextCard's Thursday press release announcing they filed a lawsuit against Providian by saying the suit "is totally without merit." ...

As the threat of Onsale (Nasdaq: ONSL) and Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) combining their resources to grab a larger market share in online software sales looms, online software superstore Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) is using partners to help extend its brand On Thursday, Beyond.com announced the launch of a co-branded online software store for direct ma...

Surfing the wave of concern about the dissemination of private consumer information by e-commerce companies and Web organizations, IBM announced today the formation of a consulting services group to convey privacy issues to businesses The company said the services were a tool-assisted methodology derived from extensive research and would ultimately...

In a concerted effort to become a dominant player in the business-to-business auction market, uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) announced Thursday that it formed an alliance with business magazine publisher, Cahners, to introduce real time electronic bidding to potentially millions of targeted readers The alliance will give uBid an inside track to holding ...

A major media company and an emerging online network for broadband-enabled consumers are teaming up to offer an alternative for movie fans who are tired of waiting in long lines at their local theater. Today, Tribune Media Services, which is a subsidary of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), and On2.com (AMEX: ONT), which is creating a network of Web channels that deliver video-rich, interactive content via broadband, are working together to launch a new service that will offer online ticketing for more than 29,000 movie screens nationwide...

Saying that Providian Financial Corp. (NYSE: PVN) deliberately copied one of its banner advertisements to divert consumers to its own credit card origination site, online consumer credit company NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD) announced Thursday that it filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and unfair business practices San-Francisco-based NextCa...

Although it still appears as if eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is the clear leader in online auctions, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is making a big push to grab a piece of the international market. Today, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Germany has launched a German version of Yahoo!'s auction service The service provides sellers with a vehicle to market items in many ...

Conventional wisdom might lead us to believe that Web-only businesses are much better at selling their wares online than traditional retailers who have recently jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon The Internet has a way of defying convention however, and a new study by Nielsen/NetRatings reveals that brick-and-mortar converts can turn lookers into b...

The Web hosting server market is growing rapidly as more businesses go online, and the popular domain-based Web hosting company Verio (Nasdaq: VRIO) is tapping into this expanding market Today, Verio, which provides Internet services for online businesses, announced the acquisition of privately held digitalNATION, which is a provider of server Web ...

Media company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) put an end to e-commerce solutions provider iMall (Nasdaq: IMAL) stockholder's lament about Wall Street's lack of attention when it announced Tuesday that it would issue $425 million (US$) in stock to acquire the company Excite@Home also announced an agreement with e-commerce transaction processor, First Dat...

Recognizing that there are indeed some borders in cyberspace, leading online financial services company E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced Tuesday that it would buy TIR Holdings Limited for $122 million (US$) in stock. The deal is aimed at accelerating E*Trade's efforts to build a cross-border global trading network With headquarters in Dublin, Irela...