E-Commerce

Business-to-business (B2B) incubator Internet Capital Group said Wednesday that its second quarter 2001 losses rose 90 percent compared to a year earlier, reaching more than US$354 million. Nevertheless, Wayne, Pennsylvania-based ICG said it has been building its cash reserves as well. ICG said...

Earnest Thompson, director of corporate marketing and brand communications for Siemens in the United States, recently spoke with the E-Commerce Times about the company's Internet advertising campaigns. According to Thompson, online advertising should be coordinated with other parts of a company...

Although many automotive industry players are running Internet marketing campaigns meant to bring car buyers to their Web sites, approximately 48 percent of online users remain less than satisfied with the information supplied by such campaigns, according to a study released Tuesday by e-business...

Internet companies will have to wait at least another year before the advertising market rebounds, research firm Jupiter Media Metrix said Wednesday, slashing its spending forecast for 2001 by 20 percent. Online ad spending will be US$5.7 billion this year, down from an earlier forecast of $7.3 ...

Online industrial auction specialist DoveBid said Tuesday it has acquired the capital asset disposition firm TradeOut as part of an aggressive effort to expand DoveBid's business-to-business (B2B) offerings. The TradeOut purchase is DoveBid's 15th acquisition in the past two years. "Clearly, the...

Sixty-four percent of online advertisers will pay more money for placements they view as premium inventory, according to a study released Tuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix at its sixth annual Online Advertising Forum. The study found that 58 percent of media buyers were willing to pay more for prem...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced voluntary guidelines for advertisers using larger banner ads, pop-ups, and other forms of rich media advertising Monday. The IAB said the new guidelines would help marketers leverage the unique marketing characteristics of the Internet while keep...

Although 38 percent of European businesses use the Internet to buy goods and services, another 36 percent expect to incorporate online purchasing in their operations beginning next year, according to data released Thursday by IDC. With growing numbers of European organizations making substantial ...

As one of the largest global payment systems, Visa has looked to the Internet to boost its family of branded financial products, including credit cards, smart cards, stored value cards and check cards. In this interview, Gerry Sweeney, vice president of marketing services for Visa's e-commerce a...

European Union (EU) regulators cleared the way for the wide-scale implementation of electronic signature initiatives Wednesday, approving a global network set up by financial institutions worldwide to authenticate digital signatures and other aspects of e-commerce transactions. Meeting in Brusse...

DaimlerChrysler and Union Pacific announced Tuesday that they have formed a new Web-based company to track vehicle shipments from assembly plants to dealers. The new company, Insight Network Logistics, is expected to save Chrysler approximately US$280 million over the next six years as a result o...

Memo to online advertisers: Keep pushing the envelope, as long as it's in the right direction. Yes, you're going to make some people unhappy as you take up more of the screen with your Web ads. But even with larger advertising in place, the ads on the Internet are still a far less intrusive than ...

As one of the Internet's largest providers of hardware and software, Sun Microsystems helps customers "dot-com" their enterprises and computer environments. Since the company's inception in 1982, the four-person startup has built up a workforce of more than 37,000 employees in 170 countries, and ...

Last week, the Internet Advertising Bureau released several studies backing up the argument that when it comes to online advertising, bigger is better. But is it that simple? Analysts say that while the evidence is mounting that larger ads get results, there are still many unanswered questions, ...

Hewlett-Packard currently offers its products and services -- including printers, computers, handheld devices, servers, software, electronic payment solutions, and consulting services -- to customers in more than 120 countries. HP ranks 19th on the Fortune 500 with revenues of nearly US$49 billio...