Articles by Jennifer M. Hampton

Name-your-price e-tailer Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) and insurer W.R. Berkley Corporation (Nasdaq: BKLY) announced Wednesday a joint venture that will offer name-your-price automobile insurance through Priceline's Web site The new entity, Priceline.com Auto Insurance, represents Priceline.com's latest foray into financial services, and targets the...

Satisfied with the number of readers paying or promising to pay for the first installment of his new serial novel "The Plant," Stephen King announced Monday that he plans to write and publish a third segment on his StephenKing.com Web site King, who requested that readers pay $1 (US$) per installment on the honor system, earlier stated that he woul...

In a brief filed Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) urged that its appeal of the antitrust judgment against it be sent back to a lower court. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant prefers that the case be reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia In its "Jurisdictional Statement," M...

Seven online e-tailers, including Macys.com, Toysrus.com and CDNOW, will pay fines totaling $1.5 million (US$) to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit over late deliveries made during the 1999 holiday season. The companies have also agreed to change their shipping procedures According to the FTC, the e-tailers promised delivery dates whe...

E-tail powerhouse Amazon.com has been selected by novelist Stephen King to provide a secure payment system for monthly downloads of "The Plant," the latest electronic book to be made available over the Internet by the best-selling author King made the first installment of his serial novel available on his StephenKing.com Web site Monday morning, re...

Further fueling the bitter conflict between record labels and such file-swapping operations as Napster, Jupiter Communications, Inc. has released a report showing that people who use the file-sharing networks spend more money on music Users of Napster are 45 percent more likely to have increased their music spending than non-users, Jupiter found in...

Women's online network iVillage, Inc. (Nasdaq: IVIL) announced plans Wednesday to create a 50/50 joint venture with Tesco PLC, Britain's largest retailer and the operator of Tesco.com, to serve the women's online market in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland iVillage UK, representing iVillage's first international equity relationship, wi...