E-tail industry leaders are crowned -- and laggards exposed -- in a new Web site study conducted by Keynote Systems, a San Mateo, Calif.-based Web performance and measurement firm. A large consumer panel ranked sites in three verticals -- electronics, apparel, and books and music -- according to cus...
With the fallout from its messy divorce with Toys "R" Us still reverberating around the Internet, Amazon.com on Thursday launched replacements for what was one of the most popular departments in its virtual mega-store. Amazon, which handled online sales for toysrus.com for about five years before th...
Debate has swirled recently around the practice of allowing movie lovers to download films from the Internet, burn them onto a DVD, and watch them in the comfort of their own living rooms. Now a controversial segment of the film industry is set to pave the way for more conservative studios that may ...
Intel has fired back against Advanced Micro Devices, filing court motions to throw out or limit AMD's antitrust suit against its larger rival. Intel argues in court filings that the case does not belong in U.S. District Court in Delaware because AMD contends that Intel's alleged antitrust behavior h...
A judge has cleared the way for Toys 'R' Us to terminate its e-commerce partnership with Amazon.com, a 10-year dot-com era partnership the toy seller has been seeking to terminate for nearly two years. Toys 'R' Us sued Amazon in May of 2004, seeking to terminate an agreement struck in 2000 under whi...
Signaling its intention to be a major player in the online music segment, America Online has purchased MusicNow, a digital music site that specializes in subscription packages. AOL said it reached the deal to buy the firm from electronics retailer Circuit City in late September and closed the purcha...
Pressing forward on its private anti-trust lawsuit against leading chipmaker Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has subpoenaed records from several Intel customers, including major PC makers and smaller vendors. AMD hopes the records will help bolster its argument that Intel used its market share ...
Amid internal turmoil and with a takeover bid looming, No. 2 electronics retailer Circuit City said it would end its four-year-old partnership with Amazon.com and handle its e-commerce itself. Circuit City hinted that the Amazon partnership, under which Circuit City items were listed for sale throug...
Multi-channel retailers were leaders in e-commerce growth in the latest holiday season, but a new study reveals significant opportunity gaps remain for these merchants. The first Evolution of the Multi-Channel Consumer (EMC2) study released yesterday was conducted by Inc., the e-tailing group, Fry a...
Major U.S. stock markets posted losses for the third straight session today amid inflation worries and concerns that a move by Delta Airlines to cut fares could lead to an airline price war that would further damage that troubled industry. Stocks were initially higher after the Institute of Supply ...
A new report by Technology Futures of Austin, Texas, states that in 2003, the proportion of American households using broadband of some kind -- DSL, cable or wireless -- will surpass 20 percent. At this crucial juncture in the evolution of the Internet, it might be worth reminding lawmakers who are ...
E-commerce, once the domain of "geek types" or consumers with high disposable incomes, has hit the mainstream. The U.S. Census Bureau says e-commerce spending increased by more than 34 percent year over year to $11.1 billion from the third quarter of 2001 to the same period in 2002. But the Census B...
In the wake of the dot-com collapse and subsequent recession, it is easy to shun e-commerce hype -- but to do so altogether would be short-sighted. The ideas that drove the initial boom are still valid and in fact have flourished. Customers and businesses really have forged direct connections over ...
With consumer confidence beginning to ebb, brick-and-mortar stores are implementing new strategies designed to lure consumers across their thresholds. But retailers trying to balance an actual store with an online presence must employ an array of tactics to prevent cannibalization. Fortunately, s...
Amazon has rolled out the next phase of its five-year partnership with retailer Target, launching an integrated site that offers merchandise from Target, Amazon, Marshall Field's and Mervyn's. The site will give Amazon its first crack at selling clothing online -- just in time for the holiday sea...
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