E-Commerce

It's not news that industry leaders in many markets are rushing to join the "earth friendly" revolution. Their "green" initiatives range from new eco-friendly products, such as paper towels made of recycled paper, to corporate programs promoting community involvement, such as Dell's "Plant a Tree fo...

The U.S. Senate voted late Monday to institute a four-month delay in the nation's switch from analog to all-digital television signals in a move meant to give millions of Americans more time to prepare for the transition. Television broadcasters are scheduled to go all-digital on Feb. 17, in effect ...

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court, reversing a nearly 100 year old statute outlawing price setting, is in the spotlight for retailers, lobbyists and economic theorists. For the past 96 years, retailers have been protected under an umbrella of antitrust laws prohibiting the collusion of manufactur...

For the past few decades, checks, ACH, credit cards and debit cards have been the primary means of payments for consumers. These payment methods have been successful because consumers can pay for their purchases without carrying cash, merchants can increase sales by reaching a wider consumer base, a...

Search engine powerhouse Google reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter financial results Thursday that sent the company's stock soaring nearly 6 percent to $323.88 per share in mid-day trading on Friday. The news comes on the heels of sobering developments in the broader technology sector. M...

When ubExact.com's CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson started work on her innovative beta platform last year for a new search engine concept, she had every reason to believe consumers would gravitate to the new search technology designed around the way they searched the Internet. However, what she did not co...

The serious objections by U.S. Department of Commerce to ICANN's new policies on creating unlimited domain suffixes are primarily based on old domain name thinking and continued fear of losing control of the Internet. The comments lack understanding of global business naming problems surrounded by i...

What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods. ubExact.com went out of business, unable to sustain enough financial traction to make the innovation viable. ubExact spent much of its bet...

Every marketing tactic gets more scrutiny when budgets face the severity of a struggling economy. Marketers are increasingly responding to the accountability found in digital marketing, placing their budget toward efforts that they can clearly measure against. Put SEO under this microscope, and it c...

For anybody who is trying to spend a little less money, a visit to Freecycle may be just the ticket. The concept is a simple one: You sign up for a group based on your ZIP code. Then, if you have something, anything really, you don't want -- a desk, a flowerpot, a printer, even a used Halloween mask...

An uproar hit the Web over the weekend when it was discovered an employee at consumer electronics company Belkin had offered to pay people to write positive reviews for his company's products, even if they hadn't tried them. The reviews may have been fake, but the outcry on the Internet over his tak...

More than 230,000 Facebook members got a rude awakening this past week when they were notified that they had been "de-friended" for a nice, juicy Burger King Whopper. Facebook users who installed the "Whopper Sacrifice" application were rewarded with a coupon for a free Whopper if they de-friended ...

Struggling Internet portal Yahoo has tapped former AutoDesk CEO Carol Bartz as its new CEO. Bartz, 60, will face a monumental task in attempting to turn around Yahoo, which was the No. 1 destination on the Internet before being supplanted by search engine powerhouse Google a few years ago. Bartz bri...

Google is launching a reseller recruitment drive that could herald a shift in the way the company markets its products. Google has used resellers in the past -- the partners it inherited along with the Postini acquisition, for example. Now, though, it is hoping to recruit "a very large number" of re...

Microsoft is making Windows 7 available as a public beta on an unlimited basis following a surge in demand that crashed the site after it first posted the code. Microsoft had originally planned to roll out the Windows 7 public beta on a limited basis; initially, it was to have become available to th...