Articles by Joshua Wilner

In July of 1998, after spearheading the effort to transform MSNBC into a leading online news service, Peter Neupert traded his executive office at Microsoft for a new challenge as President and CEO of Drugstore.com In the following exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Neupert discusses his decision to leap into the e-commerce game, the hi...

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Q What is Reel.com, and what do you sell on the site? A Reel.com is a premier online destination for film-related content and commerce. Q What is Reel.com, and what do you sell on the site? A Reel.com is a premier online destination for film-related content and commerce. Through our Web site, we provide consumers with an intuitive, entertaining en...

E-commerce had its share of superstars emerge in 1999, but few companies had a greater impact on the industry than Priceline.com What began as an outlet to "name-your-price" for airline travel has exploded to include car rentals and purchases, hotel bookings, grocery sales, mortgages and yard sales, forever redefining the way that goods and service...

The giant merger between Time Warner and America Online is poised to change the business landscape forever, and e-commerce is going to play an integral role in that transformation. In fact, AOL President Robert Pittman was quoted as saying that the merger will allow the two firms to "blow the roof off" their respective e-commerce packages by allowing unprecedented cross-marketing opportunities.

Federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released late Friday afternoon a much-anticipated decision in which Microsoft was determined to be operating as a monopoly. This ruling is expected to have a tremendous impact on the future of Microsoft, as well as on the direction of the global computer software industry "Microsoft has demonstrated that it wil...

Not a day goes by without the press reporting yet another story about a small start-up that has suddenly exploded into the e-commerce stratosphere. From literally nowhere, a company appears, gobbles up an untapped market and becomes an IPO Cinderella Welcome to the new Gold Rush, my friends.