Articles by Lori Enos

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced voluntary guidelines for advertisers using larger banner ads, pop-ups, and other forms of rich media advertising Monday The IAB said the new guidelines would help marketers leverage the unique marketing characteristics of the Internet while keeping their costs in line....

Internet service provider (ISP) NetZero (Nasdaq: NZRO) announced late Wednesday it is pruning its staff by 26 percent and cutting back on its free Internet service in order to decrease costs and improve financial results Westlake Village, California-based NetZero said it is reducing the number of free Internet hours that subscribers receive from 40...

DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX) and Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) announced Tuesday that they have formed a new Web-based company to track vehicle shipments from assembly plants to dealers The new company, Insight Network Logistics, is expected to save Chrysler approximately US$280 million over the next six years as a result of increased efficiencies....

Internet portal Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Monday that it will soon launch a new co-branded version of its person-to-person (P2P) payment system, Yahoo! PayDirect, that will be powered by London-based banking giant HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) "With this agreement, HSBC becomes our global financial partner, helping ready us for our next phase of ...

Streaming media company RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) announced late Thursday that it is laying off approximately 15 percent of its workforce, or 140 employees In addition to the layoffs, Seattle, Washington-based RealNetworks said it would make "significant reductions in discretionary spending." The company said the steps would allow the company to ...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) currently offers its products and services -- including printers, computers, handheld devices, servers, software, electronic payment solutions, and consulting services -- to customers in more than 120 countries The Palo Alto, California-based company sells directly to consumers via real world stores, as well as through i...

Internet travel site Orbitz took aim at one of its suppliers Tuesday, accusing Vanguard Airlines of being unresponsive and of colluding with other parties to protect the interests of Sabre (NYSE: TSG), a part-owner of Orbitz rival Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) Trouble began brewing earlier this month when consumers experienced problems booking fli...

Music-swapping site Napster named Konrad Hilbers, an executive with Bertelsmann AG, its new chief executive officer Tuesday and said that his first task will be to oversee Napster's transformation into a fee-based service Hilbers takes over Napster's top spot from Hank Barry, Napster's interim CEO since May 2000. Barry, who was praised by the compa...

AuctionWatch.com, a software provider that helps small businesses and individuals manage their online auctions, announced a new suite of products Monday designed to help larger retailers and manufacturers dispose of excess inventory at eBay and other online auction sites. "Online marketplaces are exploding as retailers and manufacturers recognize ...

Despite the dominance of major players in the e-tail world, small, narrowly focused shopping sites still have a place in cyberspace, according to analysts "[Niche sites] are not going to compete against Amazon, but they can stay in business," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times, noting also that Amazon (Nasdaq: A...

The European Commission (EC) said Thursday that the refusal of German publishers to sell books to certain Internet booksellers amounts to "illegal collusion." As a result of the preliminary finding, the EC has opened formal proceedings against Boersenverein des Deutschen Buschhandels e.V, the German book publishers trade association, and two publis...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) launched an "e-Documents" store Thursday, offering consumers access to downloadable research reports, journal articles and magazine archives The Internet retailer said its new offering will focus initially on addressing the growing consumer demand for market research. The market research segment is currently a US$3 billion...

With brick-and-click retail becoming the dominant trend, Internet marketers cannot dismiss teenagers as a target audience when creating a Web presence even though most teens do their purchasing offline, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix The study found that while 11 percent of teens aged 13 to 17 have made online purc...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Monday that it has filed charges against an unlicensed Fort Collins, Colorado chiropractor who allegedly raised over US$300,000 by fraudulently selling stock in his company over the Internet. The charges, which were filed Friday in the United States District Court for the District of Colo...

Defunct online grocer Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) and three of its affiliates -- Webvan Operations, Webvan Bay Area, and HomeGrocer.com -- formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday Close on the heels of the bankruptcy filing, a class action suit was filed against a group of Webvan officers and directors and the company's initial public o...

Giving a boost to business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce Down Under, the Australian government announced Tuesday it would be handing out US$6.64 million in funding for B2B projects over the next five years The Information Technology Online (ITOL) grant program offers grants of up to $102,000 for B2B projects across a wide range of industries and, ac...

A recently acquired subsidiary of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Great Plains Business Solutions, announced Tuesday that it is partnering with business-to-business (B2B) software provider Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq: CLRS) to offer B2B e-procurement software The new product, called eProcure, is designed for use by businesses looking to integrate their e-...

Comergent Technologies, a provider of sell-side business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce software, announced a deal with Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) on Monday in which suppliers and their channel partners will have the opportunity to use Comergent's distributed e-commerce system to connect with buyers via Commerce One's MarketSite Under the deal, Come...

Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) announced Monday that it has acquired WhereTo, an Australian provider of online travel systems. Travelocity plans to integrate WhereTo's technology, which includes engines that facilitate the booking of fares, into its own site. According to Travelocity, the integration will allow the company to more efficiently mana...

More than 20 million Europeans visited business and finance sites from their homes in May, according to research released Wednesday by Jupiter MMXI. The Internet research firm said that most Internet banking and finance consumers were visiting local brands offering online banking, financial information, online share trading and insurance services....