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New Swedish VC Firm Targets Mobile E-Commerce

With mobile phones becoming more popular than PCs, a number of Swedish technology executives have formed a venture capital firm, Startupfactory, to fund and shape promising mobile e-commerce enterprises ...

Is Fear Driving The Alliance Frenzy?

E-commerce has suddenly become about the "big move." America Online nailed a deal with Wal-Mart. Yahoo! signed with K-Mart. AOL aligned with Circuit City. Microsoft formed a bond with Best Buy. It all happened in a couple of staggering days ...

Microsoft and Best Buy Join Alliance Frenzy

In the midst of a flurry of co-promotion agreements between retailers and Internet brands, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Best Buy Co.,(NYSE: BBY) announced a strategic alliance today that includes Internet, broadcasting and in-store promotional projects ...

eCongo To Host Co-Branded Web Stores

eCongo.com, a provider of free e-commerce services, announced yesterday that it will host and manage up to 100,000 co-branded Web stores for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and portals that wish to offer free Web stores to their customers ...

Apparel Sites Show Significant Traffic Gains

According to Web traffic numbers by Media Metrix, the apparel category has continued to surprise many observers by posting a 60 percent increase in traffic for the week ending December 5th ...

Will Wireless E-Commerce Leapfrog Broadband?

If you think that Internet time is fast, just look at wireless time. Unwired e-commerce went from zero to Amazon.com in about 12 short weeks ...

Does E-Commerce Have Anything to Offer Small Business?

There is still a large e-commerce nut left to crack on the Internet: Small to medium-sized business ...

AT&T To Share High-Speed Cable Lines

AT&T Corp. has reached an agreement that will eventually allow rival online services to use its cable lines to provide high-speed Internet access ...

AT&T To Share High-Speed Cable Lines

AT&T Corp. has reached an agreement that will eventually allow rival online services to use its cable lines to provide high-speed Internet access ...

Online Shopping Soars During Last Week of November

According to figures released by Nielsen//NetRatings on Thursday, toy sites, comparison sites and Net malls saw their traffic soar an average of 70 percent from the first week in November through the month's final week ...

AOL Matches Amazon With Home Improvement Alliance

In a direct reply to Amazon.com's launch of a home-improvement section earlier this month, America Online and HomeWarehouse.com announced an agreement Wednesday that will put home-improvement products and expert information on AOL's shopping sites ...

Study: Top Customer Service Drives E-Commerce Sales

According to a new report from Forrester Research, exceptional customer service strongly increases future sales through repeat visits and positive word-of-mouth ...

IBM And Sprint Join Forces On Wireless Business Applications

IBM and Sprint PCS announced today that the two companies have forged an agreement to develop and test wireless business applications for the on-the-go workforce ...

NBC Creates Publicly Traded Internet Company

In a move designed to strengthen its position as a major Internet player, NBC has launched NBC Internet, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBCI) as a publicly traded company ...

Global Internet Usage Defies Conventional Wisdom

While the results of International Data Corporation's (IDC) Project Atlas, a worldwide survey of Internet usage, confirm that the Internet and e-commerce are now truly a global phenomenon, conventional views about different countries' usage are often surprisingly off the mark ...

AOL Aligns With UA Theaters To Sell Tickets

America Online and United Artists Theatre Circuit announced an agreement today that will make expanded movie information and ticket sales available on all AOL brands, including AOL.COM, Netscape, CompuServe, ICQ, Digital City and Spinner ...

COMDEX Gives PCs The Cold Shoulder

Although the annual COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada usually centers on PCs, this year's edition is displaying a wide range of alternatives that provide Internet connectivity without a computer ...

Disney Approves Internet Spinoff

In a move that comes as no surprise, Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) shareholders voted Wednesday to complete a merger with Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq: SEEK) and spin its Internet assets off into a separately traded company to be called Go.com ...

Dutch Bank Takes Stake In Asian B2B E-Commerce

ABN Amro, the Netherlands' largest bank, announced today that it has moved into the China and Hong Kong markets by taking a 40 percent equity stake in the B2B e-commerce unit of General Electric ...

Fastest-Growing Tech Firms Call Internet Home

According to Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500 report, the fastest-growing U.S. technology companies were all in the Internet and computer industries, with software developer Siebel Systems, Inc. leading the pack with a five-year growth of 782,978 percent ...

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