Articles by Lori Enos

Mirroring a move made by Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) two weeks ago, Barnesandnoble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced Monday that it will offer free shipping for consumers purchasing two or more items In a jab at Amazon, which raised the prices on some items when it offered to pick up the shipping tab for customers, Barnesandnoble.com said that its "low pr...

Any continued weakness in the European economy could have a major impact on the demand for information technology (IT) products and services over the next three years, according to a report released Monday by IDC The Framingham, Massachusetts-based research firm said that with indicators pointing to the possibility of a more severe downturn in West...

Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) and former online postage provider E-Stamp (Nasdaq: ESTM) announced Thursday that they have settled all pending litigation between the two companies E-Stamp said the litigation, including claims by Pitney Bowes that E-Stamp infringed on seven of its patents, as well as antitrust counterclaims by E-Stamp, was resolved withou...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) inked a deal with Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) on Wednesday that will allow the Internet portal to deliver geographically targeted, local advertising to Web surfers Santa Clara, California-based Yahoo! plans to use Akamai's targeting technology, called EdgeScape, to pinpoint a surfer's geographic location. Yahoo! said th...

Established professional Internet services companies have the best opportunity to gain market share in a shifting environment -- despite the flexibility and creativity of their emerging and mid-level competitors -- according to research released Wednesday by IDC "Customer requirements are changing in the Internet services market," said IDC senior a...

The number of dot-com job cuts fell for the second month in a row and reached the lowest point since November, according to a report released Tuesday by Chicago, Illinois-based executive search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). CGC reported that 31 percent fewer employees got pink slips from their dot-com employers in June than in May. A to...

Controversial song-swapping site Napster announced Tuesday that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM) and the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA). The agreement authorizes Napster's use of hundreds of thousands of tracks belonging to over 150 independent record labels in the...

Worldwide spending on Internet services reached almost US$22 billion in 2000, according to a report released Monday by IDC "As a result of the dot-com bubble burst, there's been much speculation that the opportunity for Internet services firms has evaporated," said Pooneh Fooladi, senior analyst with IDC's Internet services research program. "In fa...

In Part 1 of a two-part series, the E-Commerce Times began to dispel the seven deadly myths of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Analysts told us that, contrary to what many people think:...

Several companies that used bogus "rebate" checks to con consumers into signing up for Internet yellow page listings agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that their operations were deceptive and violated federal law, the FTC said Friday "Consumers in many areas of the United States have suffered substantial monetary loss as ...

By many accounts, the future of e-commerce has less to do with selling CDs and books online to consumers, than it does with selling transformers and rivets via the Internet to other businesses Ninety percent of all e-commerce conducted in 1999 involved online business-to-business (B2B) deals, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Additional...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcedThursday that it has sued another Internet pyramid scheme that conned thousands ofconsumers The FTC said that the target of its lawsuit, Streamline International,promotes itself as a multi-level marketing program sellingdietary supplements and health-care products. In addition toits Web sites, Stream...

T1msn, a joint venture of Microsoft and Mexican phone company Telmex, said Thursday it is acquiring Yupi Internet and launching YupiMSN, a Spanish-language portal. With the acquisition, T1msn, whose audience has grown to more than 5 million unique users since its launch a year ago, will expand its services beyond Mexico to reach additional Spanish...

Following in the footsteps of private industry, the U.S. government is turning to e-business to fuel its supply chain, improve its employment programs and dispose of its surplus goods. Three separate announcements marking Uncle Sam's transition to the online realm came Wednesday, from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Labor, ...

Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Wednesday that they have inked a deal to create interactive multimedia broadcast centers for Travelocity customers Fort Worth, Texas-based Travelocity said that the broadcast centers, set to open later this summer, will "bring together Travelocity's video, audio, photo images and te...

A new trial date in November has been set in the copyright infringement case brought by Tee Vee Tunes against MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP), after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case Tuesday, citing a mathematical error by the jury In April, a jury found that MP3.com must pay TVT $292,000 for copyright infringement. However, within hours of th...

Internet liquidator Overstock.com on Tuesday launched a new business-to-business (B2B) site, OverstockB2B.com, aimed at helping small business owners buy liquidated merchandise at deep discounts According to Overstock, traditional liquidation channels squeeze out mom-and-pop operations with limited budgets and shelf space, because most manufacturer...

In e-commerce today, one company is clearly the king of the online auction hill. And according to experts, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for rivals to stage a coup d'eBay San Jose, California-based eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) grew to be a "yard sale on steroids," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times, because it...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday that it has filed charges against an Internet company which, by promising to pay customer Internet access fees, allegedly conned consumers into paying membership charges and turning over personal information The charges, filed in U.S. federal court in Chicago, allege that New Millennium Conce...

Consumers spent US$3.9 billion online in May -- a 9 percent decrease from the $4.3 billion racked up in Internet sales in April -- according to data released Monday by Forrester Research and Greenfield Online. Forrester research director James McQuivey hesitated to label the sales decrease as a slump, however.