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	Overstock.com quadruples its inventory with buys from gear.com and miadora.com Description: Overstock.com quadruples its inventory with buys from gear.com and miadora.com Overstock.com today announced its acquisition of Gear.com, the No. 1 closeout sporting goods
	Cutting costs isn't working, says a new study Description: Cutting costs isn't working, says a new study Conventional dot-com wisdom today says cut, cut, cut to become profitable, but the strategy isn't working, according to a study
	Wireless Developers Target Email and e Commerce Description: Wireless Developers Target Email and e Commerce The wireless juggernaut advances, and it's got e-commerce in its sites Ð right after e-mail, that is. A new survey of 300 wireless
	WhyRunOut, a same-day delivery competitor, expands test in Southern California Description: WhyRunOut, a same-day delivery competitor, expands test in Southern California WhyRunOut.com, a web site that offers same-day home delivery from multiple retail stores, has
	And in another survey of online shoppers E Description: And in another survey of online shoppers E About 20% of the U.S. population, or 55 million people, are expected to visit online shopping sites from home this holiday season,
	Consumer confidence in online shopping grows Description: Consumer confidence in online shopping grows The number of consumers buying online increased from 19.4 million in the third quarter of 1999 to 30.3 million in the second quarter
	Returns Online opens its first returns center Description: Returns Online opens its first returns center Returns Online, Inc. today opened its first National Returns Center in Covington, Ga. The new 75,000-square-foot facility will
	Returns Online and OrderTrust team up Description: Returns Online and OrderTrust team up OrderTrust Inc., A provider of outsourced e-commerce infrastructure services, today announced an alliance with Returns Online Inc., a
	Buystream hopes knowing how a shopper arrives at a site will mean more e-retail sales Description: The process starts with knowing whether a customer is having a positive experience. To assess how much a visitor will enjoy traveling through a site, says Ryan, first determine what type of vehicle the customer arrives in.
	Introducing the VWM team Description: To cover an industry, a magazine has to know the people who shape it. That is why we put industry leaders on the cover and rely heavily on interviews with experts explaining strategies, marketing plans, technology solutions. As we get closer to the industry, its only fitting for those we cover to learn more about us.
	Secondary Office Equipment Market Launches Online Description: Secondary Office Equipment Market Launches Online The estimated $130 billion global office equipment industry gets a new online connection online today with the launch of
	High-tech harassment: Is your web site making these marketing mistakes? Description: Everyone knows the buyer/seller drill in the local department store: You enter the store. Salespeople approach and ask whether they can help you. You keep saying just looking until you need more information. Trust begins to build when a salespersons offer to help coincides with your needs. A rude salesperson tries to close the sale too soon by forcing you to make a hasty decision or second-guessing your interests.
	Priceline Charged in Class Action Suit Description: Priceline Charged in Class Action Suit As if the recent suspension of its licensed online grocery and gasoline businesses and the cessation of its barely-launched used
	A new measure of e-retail sales Description: A sign of the newness of Internet retailing comes from new figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce. While traditional retail sales declined from 4th Quarter 1999 to 1st Quarter 2000, as is expected, slumping after the frenzy of 4th Quarter holiday buying, e-retail sales grew. But total retail sales grew at a 9% clip in the 2nd Quarter, while e-retail sales grew at a slower pace, 5.3%, a sign that Internet sales are still attracting mostly hard-core usersand that shoppers still love their real-world malls. This is the first time the Commerce Department has reported e-retail sales figures. Sales are on track for just over $20 billion this year, which conflictswildly in some caseswith estimates by various researchers and consultants. The difference: The Department of Commerces statistics are based on a survey of 12,000 retailers. Most of the others contact 200 or fewer retailers. Whos right? Tune in in January when the Christmas shopping season is over.
	New Web Site Banishes Handling Charges Description: New Web Site Banishes Handling Charges New Web Site Banishes Handling ChargesFree shipping has been one of the tactics used by e-retailers to sell the public on buying online.
	zBox hopes to float on Zeroship Description: Study after study has shown that one of the biggest impediments to online shopping is the shipping cost. Last month, zBox Co. Inc. of San Francisco introduced a plan, dubbed Zeroship, to pay shipping charges for online buyers. Customers dont even have to sign up for the zBox product to get the free shipping.
	The sound of online payment Description: Buses around the world have accepted so-called contactless smart cards for some time. The card emits radio signals and the rider waves it near the farebox. The farebox picks up the message and automatically records the riders fare paid.
	Stay cool, brother Description: In the hectic world of e-retailing, you have to keep coolespecially when food is concerned. A U.K.-based company is about to hit the streets with an alternative way to keep perishable foods cool during delivery. Friobox Express will be in Great Britain and France this month with its chilled box that it says can maintain a static temperature for eight to 48 hours. In addition to a manufacturing site in Barcelona, Spain, the company is set up to manufacture in Guadalajara, Mexico, for North American distribution.
	Online and in the Black Description: One example is Underneath.com, an Atlanta-based e-retailer of undergarments. Jeffrey T. Johnson, CEO, launched the site in December 1997. Johnson long had thought about doing something entrepreneurial, and the burgeoning world of e-commerce seemed like a good way to go. And, he had contacts in the intimate apparel industry, due to previous stints with retailers Macys and Nieman Marcus.
	To rise above the spam, retailers are turning to a host of new email marketing technologies Description: To help Internet retailers increase buy ratios from email marketing campaigns, software vendors and application service providers are delivering applications that generate more detailed buying data and meld text, images and audio.
	Right Now Is Not Too Soon Description: Other contenders have been forced to abort their delivery businesses on the launch pad. Sameday, backed by $25 million in venture capital, abandoned its online retail business, Sameday Mall, a few months after its October 1999 (?) debut, and reformulated its business plan to focus on supplying back-end logistics services to retailers and b2b companies. GetToday folded in May when its venture capitalists pulled out. DNet, which was scheduled to roll out its service this fall, wound down its operation in August after failing to secure additional financing. Others like DeliverEtoday, which raised $1 million in seed money from Bear Ventures LLC, are still struggling to raise the capital to prove out their business model.
	Where teens are going online Description: Article from Internet Retailer
	Gomez takes it scoring service to the UK, rating e-supermarket leaders Description: Gomez takes it scoring service to the UK, rating e-supermarket leaders Gomez, the Internet quality measurement firm, today launched its UK Internet Supermarket Scorecard. The
	The Blue Card And Blue Skies Description: But for all its vaunted and highly touted online features, analysts say the initial draw to the Blue card was low pricing. Security, although consumers mentioned it, clearly played second fiddle to pricing, says Bruce Brittain, president of Brittain & Associates. Although the Internet may not have been the main attraction to Blue, the web draw still has potential. The name of the game for AmEx is how to get people to think of the AmEx card as the card to use online, Brittain says. The Blue card gives them the image of being ahead of the curve on e-commerce.
	The case goods blues Description: Take a book: a small, rectangular object, easy enough for online merchants to ship, it offers consumers only two choices; hardcover or paperback. Now, make it 100 pounds heavier, blow out those neat corners to include unwieldy arms and legs, make shoppers squint at dozens of product options on screen and pump the price up to $1,000 or moreand you will have an idea of why the online furniture sector has sustained a truckload of bad news in recent months.
	New site offers one-price CDs Description: New site offers one-price CDs BMG Direct launched OnePriceCDs to sell more than 12,000 CD titles from more than 70 music genres for a single price of $9.99 each, including
	Ditching the dot-com Description: Once Wall Streets favorite suffix, the handle dot-com has lost its glow in recent monthsso much so that a handful of businesses already have dropped it from their names in what may preview a wave of name-shortening to come. MindComet, an Orlando, Fla.-based digital media developer, crossed dot-com off its front door in August. Marketing technology solutions provider BlueStreak of Newport, R.I., and Herndon, Va.-based LifeMinders, an online direct marketer, personalization and wireless technology provider, are just two more among several others that have done the same.
	For women not built like Barbie, Lucy.com throws the cookie cutter out the window Description: Lucy.coms new Body Type Solutions, introduced as the main feature of the revamped web site in August, lists clothing recommendations for eight different, but very common and very reasonable, body types. Instead of reading romantic descriptions of material accompanied by a flat photo of an item, you can see the type of person the item is designed to look and feel best on. What a relief!
	To serve and protect: FTC director is both teacher and cop to online retail community Description: Bernstein got her introduction to the Internet shortly after returning to the FTC. In 1995, several incidents of garden-variety fraud on the Internet caught the FTCs attention, many involving work-at-home scams. The question then was were these cases too small and too local for federal involvement, she says. There were also questions of who had jurisdiction over this new thingthe Internet. Because of the Internets far-reaching capabilities, it was my assessment this was not a local matter, she says. It was my instinct as much as anything else that this new market had the potential to be a huge market. And far-reaching, nationwide markets traditionally fall under the FTCs jurisdiction. My view was we better step up to the plate, she says. To me the Internet was just another new marketplace. However, she adds, in 1995, she had no idea how big or important this new marketplace would become.
	Heavy Weather Description: Given the frantic pace of dot-com retail launches, shakeout in the marketplace was built in. In fact, analysts have said forecasting it has been as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Reason number one? The sheer number of b2c players on the field. There just isnt enough mind share and wallet share among consumers to spread out over the huge proliferation of sites, says Rebecca Nidositko, Yankee Group analyst. Venture capitalists who fund start-ups generally expect only 10-30% of their investments to succeed. From their perspective, its a given that the landscape would shake out. But some people forgot that rule. They thought that maybe everyone was going to be a winner.
	Office Depot opens number 10: a French online store Description: Office Depot opens number 10: a French online store Office Depot Inc. now has 10 web sites. Its Viking Office Products subsidiary a new electronic commerce shopping site for
	Ghost of Christmas past Description: The shortcomings of Christmas past grabbed headlines deep into the summer. But have e-retailers learned from the mistakes of 1999, or will online shoppers find more late deliveries and out-of-stock items this season?
	Webvan builds a customer service center Description: Webvan builds a customer service center Webvan Group, Inc. today announced has signed a lease for the construction of a national customer service center in North Las Vegas, Nev.
	TeamStore joins the ESPN.com Mall Description: TeamStore joins the ESPN.com Mall ESPN.com Mall has added TeamStore @ ESPN.com to its planned tenant roster. The addition of TeamStore enables ESPN.com users to purchase licensed
	Visa and Yahoo expand their marketing agreement Description: Visa and Yahoo expand their marketing agreement Visa U.S.A. and Yahoo Inc. today announced a significantly expanded marketing relationship which leverages Yahoo's comprehensive
	New CFO for Yantra Description: New CFO for Yantra Yantra Corp., a leading provider of e-business solutions for high-volume transaction management, has hired Mark Gallagher as chief financial officer. With over
	NextCard's Top 30 e-retailers for September Description: NextCard's Top 30 e-retailers for September NextCard today released the NextCard eCommerce Index for September, a barometer of monthly online consumer spending. "Traditional
	Net2phone's stock buyback Description: Net2phone's stock buyback Net2Phone Inc.'s net2phone.comannounced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 5 million shares, or approximately 9%, of
	More bad news for Priceline Description: More bad news for Priceline Meanwhile, hard on the heels of the WebHouse announcement, priceline announced that Perfect Yardsale Inc., another separate priceline.com licensee
	What Am I Bid on These Boxers? Description: What Am I Bid on These Boxers? It's said you can buy just about anything online at eBay. Now, you can buy an Internet retailing company as well. The web site Underneath.com, an
	RepairNow Amazon's new Handyman Description: RepairNow Amazon's new Handyman RepairNow.com, the e-commerce affiliate of National Electronics Warranty Corp., will assist Amazon.com customers with online product operation and
	Priceline WebHouse Club closes Description: Priceline WebHouse Club closes The Priceline WebHouse Club, a privately-held licensee of priceline.com, which enables consumers to name their own price for gasoline and groceries
	Home Channel Debuts on AOL Description: Home Channel Debuts on AOL America Online, Inc. has launched a new House & Home Channel Ð a resource that will provide tools, content and e commerce solutions to homeowners
	Sharper Image's booming web sales Description: Sharper Image's booming web sales Sharper Image Corp. today announced a 158% increase in Internet sales in September this year over September 1999. Web-based sales for the month
	Amazon gets the picture Description: Amazon gets the picture Amazon.com launched its new Camera & Photo store and announced an alliance with Ofoto, Inc., an online photography service. The store provides a full
	Hosting Co. Packages Holiday Cheer Description: Hosting Co. Packages Holiday Cheer Rackspace Managed Hosting launched its holiday hosting package for customers needing Linux and NT server clusters to support online sales
	Gartner Hosts Nov. b2b Conference Description: Gartner Hosts Nov. b2b Conference Business-to-business e-commerce will grow at aggressive rates through 2004, causing fundamental changes to the way businesses do business with
	Beenz Sez Description: Beenz Sez ,Beenz.com creator of beenz web currency, has doubled the number of merchants participating in its two-month-old beenzBack shopping program. Barnes & Noble.com,
	Cool Settlement Description: Article from Internet Retailer
	Move Over Pokemon Description: Move Over Pokemon Pocketpass.com, a new phone and Internet payment card company that is targeting the teen market, has signed a cobranding and marketing deal with