Articles by Lori Enos

Two European subsidiaries of eBay were sued by watchmaker Rolex over alleged auctions of counterfeit Rolex watches, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made Tuesday by the Internet auctioneer The suit, which was filed April 25th in the regional court of Cologne, Germany against eBay GMBH and eBay Internation...

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will sign the "Safe Harbor" privacy protection agreement between the United States and the European Union. Signing the agreement will allow Microsoft to transfer personal information between its European and U.S. operations with less risk of privacy claims being filed against the company.

It was a disappointing Mother's Day for those who went online to send flowers, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen//NetRatings and Keynote Systems The Internet performance firms reported that 25 percent of Mother's Day orders placed at three popular flower sites -- 1-800Flowers.com, Flowersdirect.com and Proflowers.com -- were not deliver...

The two fastest growing online age groups during the past year are 18 to 24-year-olds and people over 55, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix. The New York City-based research firm said that between April 2000 and April 2001, the number of Netizens age 55 and over grew by 33 percent, while the number of 18 to 24-year-olds...

Few things are more annoying than opening your inbox and finding dozens of solicitations for credit cards, weight loss products and other goods and services. Unfortunately, no national law exists outlawing or regulating spam. Instead, spam is regulated by "a patchwork of state laws of varying degrees of effectiveness," according to Allen Hile, ass...

British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Plc (C&W) (LSE:CW) announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Internet content delivery and networking provider Digital Island (Nasdaq: ISLD) for US$340 million in cash C&W said that when the acquisition is complete, the combined company would be able to support more than $1 billion in transac...

British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Plc (C&W) (LSE:CW) announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Internet content delivery and networking provider Digital Island (Nasdaq: ISLD) for US$340 million in cash C&W said that when the acquisition is complete, the combined company would be able to support more than $1 billion in transac...

British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Plc (C&W) (LSE:CW) announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Internet content delivery and networking provider Digital Island (Nasdaq: ISLD) for US$340 million in cash C&W said that when the acquisition is complete, the combined company would be able to support more than $1 billion in transac...

E-commerce revenues in Singapore have more than doubled, growing from US$22.03 billion in 1999 to $51.1 billion in 2000, according to a report released Wednesday by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Department of Statistics "The Survey on E-Commerce 2000" found that 98.7 percent of the 9,000 companies surveyed had Internet a...

A familiar brand name is the most important factor being considered by corporate buyers on the Internet -- even more important than price -- according to a study released Thursday by e-business consulting firm Accenture The study, "Was It an Illusion? Putting More B in B2B," found that 80 percent of corporate buyers believe that brand and customer ...

Online brokerage E*Trade (NYSE: ET) announced Tuesday it has launched E*Trade Israel, a Hebrew and English language Web site that will allow Israelis to trade online in the U.S. stock market Menlo Park, California-based E*Trade said it believes that its entry into the Israeli online finance sector will "greatly contribute to the market's continued ...

The potential for price fixing in business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces was one of many thorny issues addressed Monday and Tuesday in Washington D.C. at a seminar sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lawyers, economists, researchers and business leaders attending the two-day public workshop, entitled "Emerging Issues for Competi...

Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced late Monday that it is replacing president and chief executive officer Daniel Schulman. The e-tailer said chairman Richard Braddock will retake the reins as CEO, a position he held from July 1998 to May 2000. Chief operating officer Jeffery H. Boyd will assume the role of president.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Monday that it was partnering with Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) and Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq: BALT) to design, develop, and market a Windows 2000-based software package that incorporates Identrus, an electronic identity verification system The collaboration will enable financial institutions to "build a co...

Word of mouth is one of the strongest marketing mediums available -- so strong that some struggling dot-coms, desperate to save advertising dollars, are begging their customers to help spread the word about their products and services "Word of mouth is very powerful in terms of buying power," Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced Thursday that it had taken legal action against two online Florida businesses for alleged distribution of counterfeit software One of the companies involved, Global Spider, Inc., which Microsoft believes also did business as Nico International LLC, allegedly distributed counterfeit software from a variety of Web a...

An online business directory designed to make business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce simpler and more efficient went live Wednesday In addition to providing basic company information, the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) allows businesses to list their products and services, as well as important technical information about the...

Despite speculation that Internet behemoth Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) will eventually open real world stores as a way to boost profits and make product returns easier, a senior executive with the company said Tuesday that Amazon intends to stay in cyberspace for the time being "One of the questions we keep hearing is, is Amazon going to be buying retail ...

Although some e-tailers argue that imposing a sales tax on Internet purchases would cause online sales to plummet, a study released Tuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix concluded that most consumers are indifferent to the presence of an online sales tax Jupiter's survey of consumers who had abandoned a shopping cart found that 74 percent do not consider...

In the days when everyone believed that the future of the economy lay in cyberspace, many dot-coms unwittingly built financial houses of cards by investing substantially in their online brethren Taking equity stakes in other dot-coms was "the cool thing to do a year ago, when everyone was living in Never-Never Land," investment banker Gary Lutin to...