E-Commerce

The Poker Players' Association took its fight to reform online gambling laws to lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week when more than 100 poker players took to the capitol. Professional poker players including Vanessa Rousso, Howard Lederer and Victor Ramdin joined PPA executives in Washington, D.C., t...

In many cases, the entrepreneur who had the courage to start a new business was on the right track by choosing a startup that could be both viable and profitable. Yet, the company failed. Why is that? Because of lack of working capital: the main cause of startup failures. This kind of failure can be...

It should come as no surprise that the marketing industry is evolving as a whole. Marketing experts and business professionals from around the globe are all trying to figure out the best way to target their audience. For years, marketers have said that the best way to sell a product is to reach as m...

Microsoft will pay $240 million for a small ownership stake in Facebook and the right to deliver ads to its members around the world, a move that values the four-year-old social networking firm at $15 billion. The agreement, billed as a strategic alliance by the two companies, calls for Microsoft to...

Google and Nielsen have formed a relationship designed to help advertisers create targeted ads for viewers and track how and where their advertising dollars are delivering a return. Under the agreement, Google will provide Nielsen's demographic data through its Google TV Ads advertising platform. Go...

Amazon's stock was down about 12 percent Wednesday despite posting earnings that were better than expected and predicting a record holiday quarter, as a lower-than-expected profit outlook weighed on investors. The e-commerce giant managed to post a four-fold increase in net earnings for its third qu...

Countries are like little homes; they house a nation, hold ideologies and provide shelter and comfort to their people in hopes that the occupants will nurture better ideas for themselves and further advance humanity. These are the primary desires and goals of most countries on this small planet, and...

Online retail sales for this holiday season are expected to increase by 20 percent over sales from the 2006 season, surpassing $39 billion, according to JupiterResearch's U.S. Online Retail Holiday Forecast for 2007. This growth will be driven not only by veteran online shoppers -- who are projected...

There's a wealth of opportunities available for aspiring and small to medium-sized business e-tailers looking for shopping cart technology. While this makes it easier than ever to find this important piece of the e-tailing puzzle, it also means startup and SMB e-tailers face greater challenges when ...

Online stores could soon become a lot more like their real world counterparts thanks to new, 3-D immersive technology announced Monday by Kinset. Kinset 3D Store technology allows retailers to create and operate retail stores that look and feel like those in the brick-and-mortar world. Shoppers in K...

Dell on Monday added office superstore Staples as another partner to its growing roster of retail outlets as it changes its strategy in a bid to grab back lost market share. Staples will sell selected Dell desktop and notebook PCs as well as printers and accessories in 1,400 of its stores nationwide...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday. The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording la...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday. The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording la...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday. The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording la...

Microsoft will not appeal the 2004 ruling against it by European antitrust regulators any further and has reached an agreement to bring it into compliance with all aspects of the ruling's wide-ranging penalties. Microsoft had the option of appealing a ruling made in September by the Court of First I...