E-Commerce

Sparked by growth in its European operations, Yahoo announced today it will open a European operations headquarters in Ireland to provide support to its main European headquarters in London. Yahoo plans create almost 400 new jobs in the Dublin office over the next five years. The Irish operation wil...

Major League Baseball's Internet unit said it has reached a deal to acquire e-tailer Tickets.com for US$66 million, a move that offers the league more opportunities to sell directly to its fan base. MLB Advanced Media said it would pay $1.10 each for all of the outstanding shares of Tickets.com, whi...

EBay, Microsoft, PayPal and Visa are hooking up to catch some phishing fraudsters. The high-tech heavyweights yesterday became the first participants in a new anti-phishing aggregation service dubbed the Phish Report Network and organized by WholeSecurity, an Austin, Texas-based company that screens...

Monster Worldwide, parent company of the leading online career site in the U.S., said it would buy France-based Emailjob.com for US$26 million. Emailjob.com, which was founded in 1998, was owned by the French division of worldwide trade show giant and business publisher Reed Elsevier Group, which is...

The Liberty Alliance has released the second version of its identification standards for Web services technology, marking what analysts said is another step toward the convergence of identity specifications that will simplify processing. The global consortium's latest release of ID-WSF 2.0 is a publ...

Reviving a nearly 5-year-old case that has tested the limits of local jurisdictions in the Internet era, Yahoo has won a new hearing on claims that its rights under the U.S. Constitution to sell Nazi memorabilia can't be limited by French courts. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear s...

Mobile device maker Nokia has struck a deal to license Macromedia's Flash technology for use on smartphones, a partnership that could help accelerate the adoption of portable Web use and mobile commerce over time. The agreement is seen as significant because it will give thousands of Web application...

Recently, while replying to e-mails from readers of my book, The Design of Sites, I came across a comment from a designer who claimed that my recommendation to use pop-ups was hopelessly out of date. Did this reader not understand me, my recommendation -- to use pop-ups primarily in situations when ...

Call it a triple whammy against spam. EarthLink today announced four more lawsuits in its continuing fight against fraudulent and deceptive commercial e-mails. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Pfizer announced parallel lawsuits against two international pharmacy spam rings. It is just the latest barrage of ...

What do New York and Nigeria have in common? Something far more serious than beginning with the letter "n." Both of these regions have earned the dubious distinction of ranking among the riskiest places in the world for e-commerce, according to a survey by CyberSource Corporation. The Big Apple was ...

Nokia and RealNetworks have announced an expansion of their long-term relationship to enable Nokia to ship RealNetworks' media formats on a wide variety of its advanced phones. "The new licensing and development model with Real fully supports Nokia's multi-format strategy and our commitment to resp...

There are three common myths about corporate image and name identity: Big money will buy you a big image, customers are just sheep, and constant bombardment will bring constant sales. Corporate image and name identity form the backbone of any business. Without them there will be no growth, no IPOs,...

Search engine company Ask Jeeves announced today that is has acquired privately held Bloglines, a free online service for searching, publishing and sharing RSS feeds, blogs and rich Web content. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bloglines will continue to operate as an independent bran...

Despite spending a reported US$2.4 million for 30 seconds of television time during Sunday's Super Bowl, some advertisers failed to ensure their Web sites could handle additional traffic their campaigns generated. According to Keynote Systems, several major companies saw the performance of their Web...

Google today said it has not yet decided whether to appeal Friday's ruling by a French court that ordered it to pay US$260,000 plus costs to luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton for breach of trademark. The high court in central Paris also ordered Google to stop displaying advertisements for Vuitton's r...