Articles by James Hollander

Privately held online grocer Webvan Group is looking to go national in a major way. On Friday, Webvan announced a deal with construction firm Bechtel that greatly ups the ante for online sales of groceries. The deal, which is expected to exceed $1 billion (US$), will result in Webvan distribution centers being built by Bechtel in 26 new markets over the next 24 months...

Standard & Poors -- a name long known in the lexicon of the financial world as the root of the S&P 500 -- announced Monday the formation of a new Internet custom solutions service for financial retailers The company said the new launch would include personal investing services, news, charting, stock and mutual fund profiles, screening tools, market...

Standard & Poors -- a name long known in the lexicon of the financial world as the root of the S&P 500 -- announced Monday the formation of a new Internet custom solutions service for financial retailers The company said the new launch would include personal investing services, news, charting, stock and mutual fund profiles, screening tools, market...

The major record labels have already vowed to fight back against MP3 digital music compression. So, Friday's announcement that leading online music retailer, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW), and major record label, Atlantic Records, have paired up with Microsoft to offer secure promotional downloads comes as no surprise CDNow said it was introducing a "ground...

Telecommunications heavyweight Bell Atlantic has 43 million telephone access lines and nine million wireless customers worldwide. The company is now looking beyond telephone customers, however, and focusing on e-commerce On Thursday, leading search engine Infoseek (Nasdaq: SEEK), which is an anchor site for the GO Network, announced a three-year de...

When there's been millions upon millions of words written about you, it's probably only fair that you be allowed to put in your two cents worth That might be what the popular auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is thinking Friday, as it announced the anticipated late summer launch of eBay Magazine.

The major record labels have already vowed to fight back against MP3 digital music compression. So, Friday's announcement that leading online music retailer, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW), and major record label, Atlantic Records, have paired up with Microsoft to offer secure promotional downloads comes as no surprise CDNow said it was introducing a "ground...

Leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) continued its run of exceeding Wall Street's expectations when it announced its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the U.S. stock markets closed Yahoo! reported net revenues of more than $115 million (US$), a 156 percent increase over the same period last year. The company's net second-quarter loss,...

While it might lag behind in the Nielsen ratings, television network CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is definitely out in front of the pack when it comes to building an Internet presence. The company added to its online portfolio Thursday, with the announcement that it acquired a 35 percent stake in Medscape, a popular health and medical information site for the medical community...

After a string of months highlighted with huge capital investments, and a number of acquisitions, Go2Net, Inc. is putting the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together for all to see The network of branded technology and community-driven sites announced Thursday that it signed a licensing agreement with e-commerce hosting solutions provider Intershop. T...

When Go2Net, Inc. announced last month that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his venture capital firm, Vulcan Ventures, had purchased an aggregate $426 million (US$) of Go2Net stock since last March, it didn't take a genius to figure out that the company would go on a shop 'til you drop excursion Still shopping and obviously not dropping, Go2Net...

Not content with being just an online broker, E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced today that it is expanding its e-commerce arsenal by branching out into real estate. E*Trade and online real estate marketplace Owners.com have launched a co-branded real estate service that can be accessed on E*Trade's mortgage center The new service will allow E*Trade'...

In name choice alone, a newly-formed coalition of civic organizations, high-tech associations and a sprinkling of private companies send an emphatic message to elected officials about their view of government intervention in the Internet Washington, D.C.-based "Hands off the Internet" announced their formation Friday. It's clear from their name and...

Leading e-commerce retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is clearly dominating online bookselling. The competition, however, just got a lot tougher Today, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), which is massively expanding its e-commerce presence, announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Books-A-Million (Nasdaq: BAMM), the third largest book retail chain...

Flush with cash -- lots of cash -- Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET) announced Thursday that it acquired e-commerce payment authorization service, Authorize.Net for $90.5 million (US$) The Seattle, Washington-based network of technology and community-driven Web sites said the deal was a critical component in its development of end-to-end commerce solutio...

Following on the heels of its push to sell mortgage loans in Japan and the Republic of Korea, online mortgage lender E-Loan, Inc. (Nasdaq: EELN) announced Thursday that it's entering into a joint-venture with an Internet investment fund to provide loans to consumers in the UK, Australia and New Zealand The Dublin, California-based company said it h...

After months of public testing, enterprise reporting, management and analysis firm Web Trends Corporation (Nasdaq: WEBT) unveiled its new portal site for Internet professionals Wednesday The site, which was first announced in April, is called WebTrends Network. It features a variety of products and resources for Internet professionals -- including ...

Like movie stars and Hollywood titans, Wall Street mavericks and Fleet Street publishers, online commerce companies are catching on to the "official book" craze In addition to providing a fine way for entities to write their own histories before someone else does, these "official books" also carry the imprint of respectability.

America Online (NYSE: AOL) is becoming a little more fashionable and a little richer Modacad Inc. (Nasdaq: MODA), which owns the fashion-related e-commerce site styleclick.com announced today that it has signed a two-year marketing agreement with AOL.

Saying that their aim is to give customers more control over their long-distance, wireless and Internet accounts, AT&T unveiled a new customer service online site Tuesday The site is an obvious response to the tele-communications giant's recognition that its e-commerce potential is expanding as its customers get more and more used to settling accou...