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InstallShield® and Akamai Team Up to Enhance Delivery of Large Download Files
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Better CRM boosts conversions 30% and more at eBags
Description: Better CRM boosts conversions 30% and more at eBags EBags has set its sights on reaching profitability by mid year, and its focusing on boosting conversion rates as one way of
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RedEnvelopes Mothers Day sales leap 85%
Description: RedEnvelopes Mothers Day sales leap 85% Mothers Day sales at RedEnvelope.com increased 85% over last years Mothers Day, with less than half the amount it spent last year on
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ClearCommerce Launches Software to Fight Online Fraud
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PubliCARD, INC. REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS
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BroadVision Stocks Up Momentum with Grocery Retailers
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Kmart`s Data Warehouse Reaches 92 Terabytes with Latest Expansion from NCR`s Teradata Division
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Selling In The Click Of Time
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Return Assured hopes a merger will increase its e-retailer base
Description: Return Assured hopes a merger will increase its e-retailer base Return Assured Inc., which provides a seal of approval ensuring customers at e-retail sites that the retailer
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Fight back when fraud strikes, security expert urges
Description: Fight back when fraud strikes, security expert urges A retail site hit with a fraudulent transaction must fight the fraud if it wants to avoid being marked as easy prey, Julie
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Major European food retailer starts a test of web selling
Description: Major European food retailer starts a test of web selling Intermarche, an organization of 2,000 independently owned supermarkets in Europe, is starting a test of web-based
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Meals.com releases results and reorganizes
Description: Meals.com releases results and reorganizes Coinstar Inc. subsidiary Meals.com, a company that uses a web site and in-store technologies to give shoppers recipe information and
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LAUNCH OF NEW BOATINGONLY.COM PORTAL PUTS A WORLD OF INFORMATION AND RESOURCES AT THE BOATERS FINGERTIPS
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The Sales Tax Issue Is Alive and Well
Description: Congress takes up the contentious tax issue, but consumers dont really care
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Kozmo walks its last mile
Description: Founder Joseph Park once said that if Kozmo failed, hed have a great case study for his application to business school. He has his case study.
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Web goods returned will reach $6 billion in 2005, Jupiter predicts
Description: Web goods returned will reach $6 billion in 2005, Jupiter predicts Consumers will return $6 billion in good purchased online in 2005, representing 90 million product returns,
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Bellacors CEO may have been late to the game, but hes learned from the early flame-outs
Description: Unlike many Internet entrepreneurs, it wasnt a passion for the product that led Andersen to start an online company. Though hes now developed an appreciation for the design attributes of lighting and home accent pieces that are Bellacors stock in trade, initially, the merchandise might just as well have been widgets. What attracted me was the business challenge of looking at an inefficient marketplace thats hugemaybe $50 billion a yearand how the Internet, which excels in information exchange, could be used to change the system, he says.
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Mountains of Data
Description: Working with IBMs horizontal marketing technology, its already stripped redundancy from a cross-channel customer database grown so unwieldy that some customers received as many as 60 catalogs a year. And it has segmented customer groups most likely to respond to various promotions. This exercise in database mining cut catalog mailings by 7% and added $3.5 million to the bottom line in its first year of implementation, a combination of saved costs and increased sales. Next up: applying those analytical capabilities to cross sell and upsell to customer groups on the web, which the company plans to do this year.
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PDG SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES ITS DESIGNATION AS A UPS ONLINE® TOOLS PRODUCT SOLUTION PROVIDER
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800.com buys assets of competitors
Description: 800.com buys assets of competitors Consumer electronics retailer 800.com has acquired the assets of Roxy.com, another consumer electronics sites, and Everything Wireless, a
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NEW eMARKETER CRM REPORT REVEALS CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT ADOPTION IS MEETING PROMISED STRENGTH
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Web sales at Spiegel, J.C. Penney grow strongly in April
Description: Web sales at Spiegel, J.C. Penney grow strongly in April Web sales once again were the only bright spot in the monthly sales report from The Spiegel Group. While total sales
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What`s in Our Name?
Description: Magazine titles typically do not convey fully the editorial content and strategic mission of the publication, which is why publishers often are compelled to use a subtitle. When we launched
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How a small over-the-counter remedy marketer used online sales to create offline success
Description: Pure Lip launched its prevention product in September 1999, then its remedy product in June 2000just one year after Moffitt hired his first employee, President Nicholas Meyer. Meyer, a fellow Georgetown grad, brought retail experience to the company following a career in advertising where he developed domestic and international brand for Wendys International. By September 2000, the products had reached drugstore shelves.
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Gartner says e-retailers can reduce returns processing costs by automating
Description: Gartner says e-retailers can reduce returns processing costs by automating Research company Gartner Inc. estimates product returns will cost web merchants $3.2 billion this year.
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Getting the Goods
Description: Profit pressures say someone will have to pay for deliveryretailers are betting it will be the consumer
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VIEWPOINT REPORTS 31 PERCENT SEQUENTIAL INCREASE IN FIRST QUARTER REVENUES
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Bluefly.com increases profit, lowers customer acquisition costs in Q1
Description: Bluefly.com increases profit, lowers customer acquisition costs in Q1 Online discount fashion retailer Bluefly Inc. says that in the first quarter 2001 its gross profits
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MusicNet may be the first of many online subscription music services
Description: Musics advancement on the Internet took a major turn early in April when three major record companies joined forces with online audio software giant RealNetworks to form MusicNet, a subscription-based infrastructure that organizers plan to license to other music services such as Napster.
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CyberCash wants to shed the e-money mantel
Description: It was born in the dot-com excitement when no one knew how Internet commerce would play out. But as the medium matured and many physical world practices moved to the web, its business case became less compelling. In March, CyberCash Inc. filed for reorganization to give it time to find a buyer that could integrate its electronic payment services into a broader suite of products. We wanted to be not quite so dependent on the growth of the Internet, says John Karnes, executive vice president and CFO.
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eOneGroup`s jCommerce4.0 Now Allows Web Marketers to Offer Customizable Products Instantly
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Putting the local currency look on overseas web sales
Description: Tne obstacle to global selling online is currency conversion. Online buyers like to know the price in their own currency and online retailers dont usually like to be at the mercy of currency fluctuations.
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The European e-markets: Poised for growth
Description: Notwithstanding clouds on the European economic horizon, the regions Internet market remains quite formidable, says a new report on European Internet and e-retailing users from New York-based researchers eMarketer Inc. The upshot: Europe has a larger population than the U.S., with a relatively high per-capita income. Internet users will explode from 108 million this year to 255 million in 2004. Anyone who wants to get into Europe needs to move now. This page shows growth by country and relative importance of each country to e-Europe. All data comes from The eEurope Report, April 2001, by eMarketer.
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Hot link to a vending machine
Description: Until now, management of vending machines has been labor-intensive. When something goes wrong, machine operators have no way of knowing unless someone notices a problem and calls the machine owner or until a technician visits the machine.
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How richer e-mail graphics make for richer e-retail sales
Description: Enter sniffers, which are another technological advance that make HTML e-mails possible. Sniffers allow marketers sending HTML e-mails to figure out what kind of browser a customer has and whether the browser can support a high-tech e-mail. Sniffers have been key in determining which messages are opened and read. Sniffer technologies have gotten better at identifying whether consumers can read HTML files, McLanan says. Thats been the biggest improvement.
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What are you gonna do when customers wont wait 4 seconds? Speed up the delivery
Description: The notion of content acceleration is new enough that everyone has a different definition. The idea can be interpreted a number of ways, depending on where the acceleration takes place. And the notion is nebulous enough that few can get their hands around the entire concept. As a result, no one really has a handle on the market. Several analysts say they have yet to evaluate the vendors in the market because the topic is so vast. It is confusing, theres a lot of issues involved with this technology, Covill says.
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Amazon crosses the border into rival territory
Description: Less than two months ago, Borders Group announced it would not be investing in Borders.com this year. Last month, Borders revealed why: It is turning over operation of the site to Amazon.
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Giving the customer what she wants and making it easy to find
Description: Unlike most searches, a natural language search does not rely only on the descriptions of products that reside in databases. Rather, it performs a synonym search on all the information in the database. Thus the customer who types in pants will see listings for trousers if the retailer uses the word trousers but not pants in the database. It also incorporates automated functions to match unfamiliar words with familiar words, corrects spelling and makes decisions about proper names.
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Fingerhut is banking on low-cost Internet access to boost sales
Description: The Fingerhut service is identical to AT&T WorldNets i495 offer, which it introduced last summer. AT&Ts regular service is $19.95 a month for up to 150 hours and $21.95 for unlimited with live customer service. Customers who pay $4.95 get an advertising bar that follows them around the web and they allow AT&T to track their movements. While it wont reveal number of users, AT&T says its pleased with the results. Within a relatively short period of time after introducing it, hundreds of thousands of customers had signed up for it, a spokeswoman says.
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buy.com Releases Next Evolution Of Award Winning Web Site
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Products and Services Guide
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elcom, inc. and Staples Form Strategic Alliance
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HIPBONE AND MOTIVE PARTNER
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Analysts like Webvans delivery and loyalty changes
Description: Analysts like Webvans delivery and loyalty changes Webvans recent changes to its delivery pricing structure to cater to customers who spend more than $100 per order may help
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Lands End web sales grow 40% while overall sales are up 9%
Description: Lands End web sales grow 40% while overall sales are up 9% Internet sales at Lands End Inc. grew 40% in the first quarter (ended April 27) over the first quarter a year ago,
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Global Sports signs deal to do NFL team sites
Description: Global Sports signs deal to do NFL team sites King of Prussia, Pa.-based Global Sports Inc., operator of sporting goods web sites, has a new partnership with Ignite Sports Media,
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Proflowers.coms slowest-loading page drives biggest sales
Description: Proflowers.coms slowest-loading page drives biggest sales Sometimes its the little things that help drive big sales. San Diego-based Proflowers.com prides itself on a business
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SalesCart: Microsoft FrontPage-Based Shopping Cart Released On UNIX
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Gourmets Coffee.com Launches E-Commerce Site
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Privacy Expert Tells Congress Strong Majority of Americans Are Now "Privacy Assertive"
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