Articles by Robert Conlin & James Hollander

Martha Stewart can make a garden grow and a dinner table glow, but does America's leading homemaker know the recipe for a perfectly-formed, golden-brown and successful IPO? We'll soon find out the answer to that question. Stewart's company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a division of Martha Stewart Living, filed for an IPO that could be valued a...

Roberto Cibrian-Campoy, CEO and co-founder of Latin American portal El Sitio International, expects his company to grow six-fold by the year 2002. Judging by the fast track the company is on in recent months, Cibrian-Campoy might just get his wish The recipients of $44 million (US$) in private equity placement last month - one of the largest first-...

One of the Web's fastest-growing networks and a shopping site with over 29,000 merchants announced Thursday that they would form an online partnership, a move that gives both access to an ample supply of resources About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT) -- formerly known as the Mining Co. -- and ShopNow.com said the agreement calls for the shopping site to build ...

With a reach that stretches around the globe and a finger on the pulse of news events from Australia to Alaska, Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY) announced Thursday that it is forming a new global business unit to expand its reach into cyberspace Announcing the formation of New Media International, the British global news service said it intends to pursue In...

With its new online store slated for a grand opening, Payless ShoeSource, Inc. (NYSE: PSS) is hoping that at least some of its future customers put their feet up and let their fingers do the shopping America's largest retail shoe store opened its e-commerce store Wednesday -- later perhaps than most -- but sounding ready to tackle the inherent diff...

With the announcement that both Hearst New Media & Technology and NBC invested in Internet companies, Tuesday was a day for two companies that usually report the news to be in the news A subsidiary of one of the largest diversified media companies in the country, Hearst New Media & Technology announced Tuesday that it was one of four equity backers...

Walt Disney International Europe and the Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG) announced Monday that they've promoted two executives to senior posts -- as the company continues its aggressive foray into European e-commerce ventures Andrew Barron was named executive vice-president of new media and business development for Walt Disney International Europ...

With the announcement that both Hearst New Media & Technology and NBC invested in Internet companies, Tuesday was a day for two companies that usually report the news to be in the news A subsidiary of one of the largest diversified media companies in the country, Hearst New Media & Technology announced Tuesday that it was one of four equity backers...

Joining a number of other portals on the Web looking at small businesses as a large market share, Netscape Communications (NYSE: AOL) announced Tuesday that it has developed an online solution for small businesses on its Netscape Small Business Channel The company said it teamed up with Netopia, Inc.(Nasdaq: NTPA) to offer E-Store on its Netscape V...

The online community Web site eCircles.com announced Monday that it received an additional $18 million (US$) in private equity financing, topping off a first round financing of $6 million it received back in March The financing package was provided by venture capital firms CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI), Nexus Group Ltd. and Adobe Systems, which provides the ...

America Online announced today the rollout of a new 17 category-specific shopping platform -- the result of years of analyzing its members online shopping behavior The leading online interactive services company said the marketplace would introduce its shopping services in October. The new shopping platform embraces AOL's existing network. Shop@AOL...

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...

In announcing that it will team up with a leading directory of heavy equipment for sale, Online auction house uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) is hoping to do for turbines and lathes what eBay did for Beanie Babies and blue porcelain jugs Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based uBid said Friday that it formed an alliance with leading heavy equipment sales direc...

The Internet's fourth-largest online brokerage attracted $195 million (US$) in financing Wednesday, but it was who declined to participate in the financing that carried headlines Friday Datek Online confirmed to the E-Commerce Times Friday that Vulcan Ventures, the investment company run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, declined to participate i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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." ...