Articles by Robert Conlin

Facing the threat of legal action from the New York Times over its price-discounting of books on the newspaper's best-seller list, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed for declaratory relief in a U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington Thursday, effectively asking to be allowed to continue the practice The company started discounting books on the New...

Pegasus Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEGS), a Dallas, Texas-based company which specializes in online hotel reservations, announced Thursday that it was chosen to provide its services to a newly-launched Japanese travel site that is featured on that country's second-largest Web portal Launched this week, Isize Travel Company, Ltd. includes online hotel re...

Someone was bound to think of it. Give the Gen X caboose a name, get their too-busy-to-shop parents to give up their credit card numbers and establish an online account for their kids and finally, convince the kid that they have better things to do than hanging out at the mall RocketCash Corporation of Saratoga, California just happened to be the o...

The unofficial start of the summer season brought sunshine and good vibrations to Techies.com, a network of career resource sites for technology professionals. The company announced Tuesday that it signed a two-year agreement with AOL's Digital City network to provide its services to the network's 4.3 million users In addition, techies.com said it ...

Media giant CBS (NYSE: CBS) continued its foray into the online world Wednesday, with the announcement that it reached an agreement to take a 35% stake in Switchboard.com in exchange for $135 million (US$) worth of branding and promotion over the next 10 years A subsidiary of Banyan Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:BNYN), Switchboard.com is one of the ...

Virtually no one disputes the fact that the future of e-commerce is dependent on public trust and the perception that sitting down at a computer terminal to buy goods and services is as safe as the checkout line of a superstore in Anywhere, USA That indisputable message is precisely the one that a representative of the industry conveyed to the Hous...

Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike The $1.4 billion (US$) food, beverage and retail concessionaire said it has teamed u...

Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike The $1.4 billion (US$) food, beverage and retail concessionaire said it has teamed u...

FOX Entertainment Group (NYSE: FOX) announced Thursday that it has formed a new media company called The Health Network. The new venture is scheduled to launch on cable and the Internet in July The new network is a spin-off of last March's merger of FOX's Fit TV and the American Health Network, the cable and Internet enterprise that has pioneered t...

As popular as the game of golf has become in the United States, it's even more so in Japan. Club membership prices can soar into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and a wide back swing is guaranteed to clip a fellow golfer in a nation with too many golfers and not enough land One company banking on the game's popularity is chipshot.com, a Sunnyv...

Fresh off a deal with eBay last month that calls for its being the auction site's leading shipper, Mail Boxes Etc. announced Tuesday that it will invest significantly in the e-commerce shipping business and the technology required to wire a network for its 3,000 domestic franchises A subsidiary of U.S. Office Products (Nasdaq: OFIS), the franchiser...

Billed as the one of the Internet's first e-commerce portals, BUY.COM has said it keeps its customers' wallets first and foremost in mind when it posts products in its virtual storefronts. The company backed up its claim Tuesday when it announced the opening of an electronic goods surplus store The Aliso Viejo, California-based company said BUYSURP...

In the span of a week, the company formerly known as MiningCo.com has changed its name and signed an agreement with Borders.com (NYSE: BGP) that calls for the co-branding of individual bookstores across its entire netwok of 650 topic-specific sites Now known as About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT), the popular Web community site, said Friday that the agreement...

OneChannel.net announced Friday that Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS), the well-known online reseller of computer hardware and software, has signed on as a charter subscriber to its service Egghead joins a list of two dozen other charter subscribers for the May 24th launch of its site, OneChannel.net said. The company did not specify who the other charte...

In the span of a week, the company formerly known as MiningCo.com has changed its name and signed an agreement with Borders.com (NYSE: BGP) that calls for the co-branding of individual bookstores across its entire netwok of 650 topic-specific sites Now known as About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT), the popular Web community site, said Friday that the agreement...

If there's one thing a sporting goods company doesn't want to do, it's arrive late at the starting gate and watch its opponents sprint to an early lead. The Sport's Authority, Inc. (NYSE: TSA) did get out of the gate later than many of its competitors, but it hopes that an e-commerce agreement announced Wednesday will allow it to catch up.

When you're cool, clever and intelligent, things just seem to fall into place so much easier. That's probably how Akamai Technologies employees felt Friday, as round after round of good news rolled through the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters -- like a Waikiki wave....

Two of the Internet's leading coupon providers reached an agreement this week to settle a patent lawsuit which has tied the Internet coupon industry in knots CouponSurfer.com and CoolSavings.com reached an undisclosed agreement to put an end to the patent infringement suit filed by CoolSavings.com against its Bedford, Massachusetts-based competitor...

They were aiming for $46 million (US$) and they obtained $41 million after expenses, which makes Intelligent Life's IPO Thursday less than remarkable, but surely a success of some kind for the North Palm Beach, Florida-based publisher of Web personal finance sites The owners of Bankrate.com, theWhiz.com and other personal finance Web sites, Intelli...

Despite the blaring headlines, the madcap rush to the top and the frenzied race to the IPO starting gate, not everything on the Internet is focused on growth and gain. In fact, one Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based company is making its name promoting loss. Weight loss, that is eDiets.com has announced that it is unveiling a personalized diet program c...