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Recession to take more vendors online?
News Downturn is a good reason for vendors to sell online, analyst says, while recent surveys suggest Asian consumers' appetite for Internet purchases are up.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, E-commerce, Canon Inc., MasterCard International, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, online retail, Sales
Forget Conficker--focus on the real threats
Insight perspective Despite all the headlines, it is not the Conficker worm people should be worrying about, says industry watcher.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Business security, ScanSafe, Malware, Stock, Mary Landesman, intellectual property, financial service, researcher
Benetton to sell online in early 2000
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Macquarie Bank launches new Internet platform
News Macquarie Bank has teamed up with finance news aggregator Wotnews to deliver a new retail online trading platform.
Tags: E-commerce, Stock Market, Investor, online retail, Stock, trader, financial, network, SMS, Internet
Booze and knickers back on top in Brits' Web shopping
News U.K. online sales in February grew by 13 percent year-on-year, and one of the categories faring best last month was alcohol.
Tags: E-commerce, online retail, Sales, wine, Consulting, Valentine's Day, researcher, health care, Web, E-commerce
US online spending doubles for pre-Christmas weekend
News Web shoppers last weekend spent almost double what they spent on the corresponding weekend before Christmas last year, ComScore reports.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Sales strategy, Web sites, online retail, Sales, Consumer, online retail company, chairman, recession, retail company
Job search sites post strong January growth
News Web sites catering to job seekers posted strong traffic growth in January, as Internet users became concerned about their job security, according to a ComScore report.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Recruiting, E-business, Job Search, Survey, online retail, January, chairman, ComScore Networks Inc.
US govt to disclose findings in Web 'mystery charge' probe
News Numerous shoppers have traced mystery credit card charges to Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue. U.S. Congress will reveal the results at a hearing Tuesday.
Tags: E-commerce, Data security, Vertrue Inc., Classmates.com, Affinion, advertisement, online retail, U.S. Senate, Continental Airlines Inc., e-mail
Newegg announces IPO, plans for expansion
News Online electronics retailer Newegg announces an initial public offering worth US$175 million, with plans to use proceeds to, among other things, expand its international operations.
Tags: Web 2.0, E-commerce, Business, Electronics, IPO, Sales, Broadband, retail company, SEC filing, acquisition
Amazon spreading its wings in the cloud
News Amazon Web Services has been offering on-demand computing and storage capacity through its Elastic Cloud Compute and Simple Storage Service. Now the company wants to make these easier for businesses to use.
Tags: Cloud computing, E-commerce, E-business, Database, Web Service, Europe, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc.
Flat holiday sales for e-tailers?
News This holiday shopping season could mark the first time that online retailers fail to outperform the previous year's sales, say market watchers.
Tags: E-business, Forrester Research Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales, Computer, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company, retail company, ComScore Networks Inc., Web
Well-backed Net funding firm out of hiding
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Well-backed net funding firm out of hiding
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Amazon buys niche apparel site
News The e-commerce giant acquires Shopbop.com to complement its apparel and accessories section.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Acquisitions
ZiaSun launches Asia e-commerce portal
News ZiaSun Technologies today launched its Asia4Sale Asian Web shopping portal, and is looking for investors to take a share in the Hong Kong-based company.
