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Thresher Group Gains Better Control Over Stock Management with JDA Portfolio Description: Implementation of JDA inventory management, forecasting and replenishment software lead to improved product distribution and availability
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ValueClick to buy Fastclick to expand online ad services Description: ValueClick to buy Fastclick to expand online ad services Adding to its breadth of online advertising services, ValueClick Inc. has agreed to acquire Santa Barbara, CA-based
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Yahoo! Search Marketing Partners With Top Web Analytics Companies To Provide Enhanced Reporting and Click Protection for Advertisers Description: Extends APIs to Coremetrics, Omniture, WebTrends and WebSideStory
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Amazon settles technology patent suit for $40 million Description: Amazon settles technology patent suit for $40 million Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit by Soverain Software LLC, a provider
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Visits increase at nine of the top 10 online shopping sites Description: Visits increase at nine of the top 10 online shopping sites Visits to six of the top 10 online shopping sites increased by double digits in July, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
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Odimos Q2 sales rise 11.7% year-over-year Description: Odimos Q2 sales rise 11.7% year-over-year Jewelry and gift retailer Odimo Inc. reported net sales of $11.5 million for the second quarter, up 11.7% from $10.3 million in the
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iMergent Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2005 Results Description: -- Expects Fiscal Fourth Quarter 2005 Revenue of $28.0 Million to $28.6 Million and EPS of $0.03 to $0.04
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Eastern Mountain Sports Selects Mirror Image to Manage Web Traffic Description: Improved Site Performance and Reliability Helps Leading Outdoor Retailer Benefit from Email Marketing Campaigns
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ShopElvis.com re-emerges on eFashion Solutions platform Description: ShopElvis.com re-emerges on eFashion Solutions platform Coinciding with Elvis Week 2005 in Memphis, TN, ShopElvis.com has re-launched on an e-commerce platform powered by
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GolfBalls.com and 1-800-PetMeds Select StrongMail to Power Business Communications Description: StrongMail Infrastructure Simplifies and Optimizes Email Operations, Enables Retailers to Focus on Customer Satisfaction
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eSkye Acquires Missing Link Communication LLC, a Leading Provider of Retail Data to the Wine Industry Description: Missing Link`s Portfolio of Leading Super-Premium Wineries Expands eSkye`s Customer Base to Over 200 Wineries
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Sears names new CEO for Lands End Description: Sears names new CEO for Lands End Sears Holdings Corp. has named Lands End executive vice president of merchandising David McCreight to replace CEO Mindy Meads, who left last
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NETSUITE 10.6 BREAKS USABILITY BARRIERS OF BROWSER-BASED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Description: New AJAX-Powered Dashboards Combine Advanced Business Intelligence and Analytics with Powerful Workspace in a Browser
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Krystal fast-food chain speeds credit card payments on the web Description: Krystal fast-food chain speeds credit card payments on the web Krystal fast-food restaurants in 10 states now let customers pay with debit and credit cards through Internet
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VeriFone Completes Topaz System Rollout to Valero Stores Description: More than 1,000 Sites Using Integrated Systems to Support Payment Network Access, Fuel Dispenser, Car Wash and Fast Food Transactions
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Yahoo partners with Chinas Alibaba.com Description: Yahoo partners with Chinas Alibaba.com Forming a multi-faceted e-commerce business to serve China, Yahoo Inc. is investing about $1 billion in cash for a 40% stake in
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iPayment Reports Second Quarter Financial Results Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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AdGooroo Releases SEM Insight(TM) 4.0, the Latest Update to Its Innovative Marketing Console for Search Engine Advertisers Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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ValueClick Announces Second Quarter 2005 Results Description: Results Exceed Revenue and Profitability Guidance, 2005 Guidance Raised
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PCI data-protection standard is impractical and leaves e-retailers confused Description: PCI data-protection standard is impractical and leaves e-retailers confused The credit card industrys Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is impractical and has left
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New CyberSource release aims to find fraud faster and cut processing costs Description: New CyberSource release aims to find fraud faster and cut processing costs Order velocity checking is one way to flag potentially fraudulent orders, and online merchants who
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Web sales at 1-800-Flowers rise 17.4% to $360.9 million Description: Web sales at 1-800-Flowers rise 17.4% to $360.9 million Web sales at 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. grew 17.4% to $360.9 million for the fiscal year ended July 3 from $307.5 million at
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Holiday Diver moving to web-based payment card transactions Description: Holiday Diver moving to web-based payment card transactions Holiday Diver Inc., a multi-channel retailer of scuba diving products and related marine supplies and apparel, is
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Why more web retailers are issuing private label cards Description: Why more web retailers are issuing private label cards As they continue to expand their online payment options, more web retailers are looking at a new option: issuing a private
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Verified by Visas volume totals $7 billion in first half of 2005 Description: Verified by Visas volume totals $7 billion in first half of 2005 Verified by Visa, Visas cardholder authentication service, had $7 billion in volume during the first half of
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Photo Finish Description: Focusing on the new strategies in digital imaging services
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eCost.com puts up $41 million in Q2 web sales Description: eCost.com puts up $41 million in Q2 web sales In its first year as a stand-alone web retailer, eCost.com is holding its own. For the second quarter of 2005, eCost, until April, a
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Struggling with Juggling Description: As their offerings grow, web retailers face the challenge of keeping product data timely, relevant and available in a nanosecond
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Where online marketing is going Description: The Internet is no longer a medium where it`s nice to have advertising. Today, a web presence is required. But there`s a lot of uncertainty among marketers and the vendors and web site owners who sell services and online space to marketers about the direction of online marketing and the effect that online will have on offline. Forrester Research has just released a report with a fascinating amount of detail about what`s catching marketers` eyes, what they think will work and what won`t work and where they expect to be spending their online ad dollars in the near future. Forrester`s "U.S. Online Marketing Forecast: 2005 to 2010" sums up the future in its subtitle: "Dollars will follow consumers online, driving spending to $26 billion by 2010." Here are a few highlights from the 23-page report:
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UPS Completes Acquisition of Overnite Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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American Greetings greets women with two new e-card sites Description: American Greetings greets women with two new e-card sites AG Interactive, the e-commerce and mobile commerce arm of American Greetings Corp., will launch a new pair of paid
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Crumbling Description: New recipe: More consumers refuse to swallow retailers cookies
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PC Mall reports record Q2 sales of $253.2 million Description: PC Mall reports record Q2 sales of $253.2 million PC Mall Inc. reported record second quarter sales of $253.2 million, up 9% from $231.6 million in 2004s second quarter.
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CD Universe hears the sales call for audio books Description: CD Universe hears the sales call for audio books In plenty of time for the holiday season, CDUniverse.com, which ranks as No. 166 in the Internet Retailer Top 400 Guide to Retail
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Bogus Brands and the Internet Description: The web has extended counterfeiters reach around the worldand made them harder than ever to find
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See You in Chicago Next Year Description: It has been six weeks since we held our Internet Retailer 2005 Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, enough time to carefully review the 250 responses we collected from our online evaluation survey of paid conference attendees and read the many unsolicited kudos that were e-mailed from attendees, speakers and exhibitors alike. This post-show analysis leads to an inescapable conclusion: IR2005 was a huge hit!
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Guiding Googles spiders Description: In the growing web content universe, retail site pages must compete with the content offered up by every other kind of web site to be found by search enginesone reason Google launched the e-commerce-specific Froogle. Now, Google has created another opportunity for retailers and others to make more of their content more accessible to its spiders.
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How building virtual book stores pays off for eCampus.com Description: How building virtual book stores pays off for eCampus.com For 6 years eCampus.com has done a good job building up web sales by going toe-to-toe on the web against the more than
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Consistency Counts Description: A deliberate web approach pays off for Redcats
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Barbeques Galore agrees to be acquired by Ironbridge Capital Description: Barbeques Galore agrees to be acquired by Ironbridge Capital Barbeques Galore Ltd., a multi-channel retailer of cooking products, has signed an agreement to be acquired by
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Why holistic customer views mean higher conversions at AETV.com Description: Why holistic customer views mean higher conversions at AETV.com A better view of all its customer information, including data from its web, telephone and direct response
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Napsters next music debut: downloads to cell phones Description: Napster Inc. is at it again. Looking for a way to innovate new services in the digital music market, it has turned to what until recently would have been considered a highly unlikely partnerthe cell phone. We think the mobile platform is exciting, and thats why were running with it, says president Brad Duea.
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Responsys Interact® 5 Helps Email Marketers Deliver on the Promise of Individualized Lifecycle Marketing Description: New easy-to-use interface and enhanced personalization capabilities enable marketers to spend less time executing email campaigns and more time improving strategic results
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Two shopping sites go for big bucks Description: Theres always big news happening in the online retailing industry. But not often is there news as big as the big news at the beginning of the summer. In rapid fire order, two comparison-shopping sites were snapped up in big-bucks deals. On June 2, Shopping.com, the largest comparison-shopping site, was acquired by eBay Inc. for $620 million. On June 6, Shopzilla was acquired by The E. W. Scripps Co. for $525 million.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Site Search: Creating the Online Precision Shopper Description: Its no longer enough to simply help customers find what theyre looking for
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Into the Blogosphere Description: Retailers take their first steps into the brave new world of blogging
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Jewelry Television takes a shine to enhanced site performance Description: Jewelry Television takes a shine to enhanced site performance JewelryTelevision.com continues to make enhancements to a major site redesign it launched almost a year ago. In
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DOGPILE.COM FIRST TO COMBINE SEARCH RESULTS FROM MSN SEARCH WITH GOOGLE, YAHOO AND ASK JEEVES Description: With the Addition of MSN Search, Dogpile.com Users Can Efficiently Find More of the Webs Most Relevant Search Results in One Place
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Internet Retailer 2005: Report from the Conference Description: This is not the retail we used to know
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Yahoo aims for more accurate counting of online ad impressions Description: Yahoo aims for more accurate counting of online ad impressions Yahoo has implemented a new measurement and reporting platform that it says brings more accountability to the
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