Articles by Jon Weisman

Despite exponential increases in Internet investment and access, Latin America's e-commerce consumer market figures to remain largely untapped for years to come, according to analysts specializing in the region For example, the number of Latin Americans with Internet access is expected to quadruple over four years -- but only to six percent of the ...

In Part I of this special report, the E-Commerce Times looked back at the first five major milestones in e-commerce history. From the first electronic business transactions to heartstopping e-tail sales figures, e-commerce burst onto the scene in dramatic fashion. Now, as this report concludes, we explore the second five major events of the great e-commerce roller coaster ride.

For anyone who has been involved with e-commerce for any length of time, the experience must feel like a roller coaster ride. The slow, clackety, adrenalized journey upward. The heady weightlessness as you reach the pinnacle. The screaming plunge -- and then, the hope that there is at least one more trip skyward left to go. No doubt, there are ple...

You have DotComGuy. You also have the e-Cavemen, the MSN Project Four and -- better nicknames welcome -- Internet Strategist on a Boat In the past year, several individuals and groups have taken it upon themselves to show the world they can survive and conquer (that is to say, eat and shop) without any means of communications technology except the ...

Funding for e-commerce sites declined amid an overall increase in venture capital funding for the quarter ended June 30th, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree survey released Monday Investment in both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sites suffered a drop in both raw venture capital dollars (US$) inv...

The Balkans, April 1999. More than 500,000 Kosovars have fled for other countries in response to ethnic strife In the crisis, many turned to the American Red Cross for help. And the American Red Cross turned to the Internet.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced Thursday it has formed a strategic alliance with e-business software and service provider Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN) in an effort to meet growing e-marketplace demands in the dot-com, retail and financial sectors Specifically, the companies intend to provide e-business solutions that will foster market share, minimize d...

The U.S. presidential candidate who would have the most dramatic effect on e-commerce if elected is not hard to identify Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, come on down.

In a series of moves that could initiate a flood of legal activity, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has filed lawsuits against five individuals who it says have been illegally selling the company's Radio Service Software (RSS) on the eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) online auction site "There was some correspondence, but since there was no action, we're taking the h...