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Discover Launches Online Wallet
Description: Discover Launches Online Wallet Last among the credit card brands to offer a digital wallet to cardholders, Riverwoods, Ill.-based Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., issuer of
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Target Aims For E-Commerce Bull's Eye
Description: Target Aims For E-Commerce Bull's Eye Target Corp. plans to form a new business unit called Target Direct to oversee e-retailing and direct marketing. The business unites the
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Hacker Claims Breach at Another Web Store
Description: Hacker Claims Breach at Another Web Store A computer hacker calling himself Curador contends he stole the entire database of an unidentified Web store, making off with more than
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Study: Free Ride Over For Dot-Coms
Description: Study: Free Ride Over For Dot-Coms Wall Street is losing patience over losses sustained by e-retail sites, according to a new report by Forrester Research. The report predicts
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Amazon Gets Cozy with Living.com
Description: Amazon Gets Cozy with Living.com Amazon.com announced it will add a home furnishing store to its product lineup by acquiring an 18% stake in Living.com. Under the agreement,
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Make Room For GaZoom
Description: Make Room For GaZoom GaZoom.com has launched a Web site with a "hybrid" online/offline business model The new site "uses the Internet to support national and local businesses
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Amazon Issues Pink Slips to 150
Description: Amazon Issues Pink Slips to 150 In unexpected move, e-retail titan Amazon.com announced plans to cut 150 workers--about 2% of its staff. The cutback surprised many industry
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E-Commerce Firm Dashes Off Letter On Consumer Data
Description: E-Commerce Firm Dashes Off Letter On Consumer Data Letter On Consumer Data --> Daniel Kaufman, CEO of mobile shopping portal Dash.com, which promotes itself as the Web's first
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Etoys Reports Heavy Losses Amid Strong Sales
Description: Etoys Reports Heavy Losses Amid Strong Sales In what seems to be a trend for Internet merchants, yet another big e-retailer has reported steep losses despite record sales during
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Pets a-Go-Go
Description: Pets a-Go-Go GO.com, the Internet business of Walt Disney Co., will acquire an equity stake in Pets.com, an online retailer of pet products. The two parties say GO.com will
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Online Wins vs. Catalogs, Stores On Price
Description: Online Wins vs. Catalogs, Stores On Price Only 4% of 3,000 online consumers believe that catalogs offer better prices than the Internet, says new research from Greenfield Online
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Put It On My Bill
Description: Put It On My Bill Qpass, an end-to-end business infrastructure for selling digital content, and Trivnet, a provider of secure Internet payment services, have announced a
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A Little Less Boo
Description: A Little Less Boo In the latest example of post-holiday restructuring, online sportswear merchant Boo.com has laid off 70 employees. The layoffs come just three months after
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Phar-Mor and More
Description: Phar-Mor and More Health and beauty retailer Phar-Mor Inc., announced an exclusive alliance with online drugstore More.com. The alliance will give Phar-Mor an entrance to the
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Big & Tall Order
Description: Big & Tall Order E-commerce software solutions provider Smith-Gardner says that J. Baker Inc., a "big and tall" apparel retailer, has selected Smith-Gardner's WebOrder Enterprise
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Minding Your Online Ps & Qs
Description: Minding Your Online Ps & Qs Internet shopping community piiq.com has implemented iMediation's iChannel software to track, maintain and expand its online selling partnerships.
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First Data Invests In Yclip
Description: First Data Invests In Yclip Electronic commerce and payment services firm First Data Corp., Atlanta, has taken an equity position in Yclip.com Inc., an Austin, Texas-based
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CDNow Teams Up With Pizza Hut
Description: CDNow Teams Up With Pizza Hut In an effort to introduce new technology to a wide audience, online music retailer CDnow and Pizza Hut are teaming up to offer custom music CDs as
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Prio Finds Its Backbone
Description: Prio Finds Its Backbone Prio Inc. has forged a partnership with Paymentech, a major acquirer of bankcard transactions, that will make Prio's Internet-based promotions system
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DMA Blasts Postage Hikes
Description: DMA Blasts Postage Hikes The Direct Marketing Association board of directors, unhappy with proposed increases in mailing rates, has passed a vote of no confidence in the U.S.
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Online Consumable Sales Pegged at $120 Billion by 2005
Description: Online Consumable Sales Pegged at $120 Billion by 2005 Purchases of consumable goods on the Web will total $120 billion by 2005, according to a study released by ActivMedia
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Amazon, Drugstore.com In Pact
Description: Amazon, Drugstore.com In Pact Amazon.com and drugstore.com have announced a multi-million dollar agreement to integrate shopping features and create a drugstore.com shopping
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Autobytel Will Sell Cars Online
Description: Autobytel Will Sell Cars Online Autobytel.com, an Internet shopping service for car buyers, will begin selling vehicles directly to customers on the Web. The new service will act
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NRF Comes Out In Support Of Web Sales Tax
Description: NRF Comes Out In Support Of Web Sales Tax The National Retail Federation board is calling for state sales and use tax "equity" across all retail channels. The New York City-based
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Simon Says: Buy Me
Description: Simon Says: Buy Me CNET, publisher of News.com, announced plans to acquire mySimon, a Web-based comparison shopping service, for about $700 million in stock. San Francisco-based
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Web Wine, Anyone?
Description: Web Wine, Anyone? Wine.com, Napa, Calif., and Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines Co., San Mateo, Calif., have joined together to offer what they say is the first wine ever available
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Beyond.com Scales Down
Description: Beyond.com Scales Down Online software retailer Beyond.com will cut its staff by 20% and refocus on the business-to-business market. As part of the restructuring, the company's
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Deal Aims to Bring Movie Rentals to the Web
Description: Deal Aims to Bring Movie Rentals to the Web Blockbuster and MGM today announced a deal aimed at putting movies on the Internet. The nonexclusive agreement allows Blockbuster to
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Noble Credit Card Deal
Description: Noble Credit Card Deal MBNA America Bank and bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. have agreed to develop and market a cobranded credit card that will allow customers who use it to earn
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FedEx to Launch Service for Web Shoppers
Description: FedEx to Launch Service for Web Shoppers In a series of restructuring moves, Federal Express revealed plans to roll out a new delivery service aimed at Internet shoppers. The
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Study: Women Are Wired
Description: Study: Women Are Wired Women are spending the same amount of time online as men and will surpass them by the end of the year, according to a new study by Media Metrix and
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Fears Still Stop Some from Online Shopping
Description: Fears Still Stop Some from Online Shopping Online shopping may have been big over the holidays, but many people still fear their credit card numbers could be stolen from a Web
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Save Those E-Receipts
Description: Save Those E-Receipts ARTS, the Association for Retail Technology Standards of the National Retail Federation has formally accepted a proposed XML-based standard for delivering
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FedEx May End Home Deliveries
Description: FedEx May End Home Deliveries Analysts who follow Federal Express, Memphis, Tenn., say that the next-day package service may eliminate residential deliveries, leaving them to its
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Visa, MasterCard Respond To Hacker
Description: Visa, MasterCard Respond To Hacker In response to a major incident in which a hacker stole thousands of credit card numbers over the Internet, Visa U.S.A. says it will focus
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Does Online Debit Threaten Credit Growth?
Description: Does Online Debit Threaten Credit Growth? While Maestro International, which is co-owned by MasterCard International and its European affiliate Europay, is working to create
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Such a Deal? Site Aims to Keep Retailers Honest
Description: Such a Deal? Site Aims to Keep Retailers Honest In the latest attempt at Internet deal brokering, two brothers launched Nosaleisfinal.com earlier this week. The Phoenix-based
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Amazon Nabs 10% of Holiday E-Sales
Description: Amazon Nabs 10% of Holiday E-Sales Amazon.com finished the year with a bang, racking up 10% of all online sales during the fourth quarter, according to a survey by Web research
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Amazon Cash Speeds Delivery Firm
Description: Amazon Cash Speeds Delivery Firm Amazon.com is among several investors reportedly infusing Internet delivery service Kozmo.com with $100 million or more in expansion funds. The
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Internet Company Plans Smart Card Rollout
Description: Internet Company Plans Smart Card Rollout An Orange County, Calif. -based Web site developer plans to distribute 100,000 free smart cards and readers to its customers to boost
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Hey Santa, See You In Court
Description: Hey Santa, See You In Court Order fulfillment just got tougher, thanks to a class-action lawsuit slapped on Toys "R" Us by a disgruntled customer who claims the toy retailer
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CD Universe Hacker Speaks Out
Description: CD Universe Hacker Speaks Out Richard M. Smith, an independent Internet consultant, says he's corresponded with Maxus, the supposed hacker of the CD Universe site. Maxus
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Drugstore.com Applies Some Online Makeup
Description: Drugstore.com Applies Some Online Makeup Online health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy concern Drugstore.com has agreed to acquire online cosmetic retailer
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Bridal Site Weds Jeweler
Description: Bridal Site Weds Jeweler WeddingChannel.com has forged an exclusive agreement with jewelry retailer Zale Corp. The deal enables Zales to deepen and extend the relationship with
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Partnership Aims To Help Small E-Businesses
Description: Partnership Aims To Help Small E-Businesses Small-business online financial services provider OneCore.com and free Internet service and e-commerce services provider eCongo.com
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Hacker Compromises CD Universe
Description: Hacker Compromises CD Universe Online entertainment network eUniverse Inc. has confirmed the theft of data-allegedly as many as 300,000 credit card numbers-from the company's
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Dressed to Sell
Description: With a wave of redesigns, web store executives set their sites on the bottom line
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New dot-com puts itself on the map
Description: If William Shatner and Whoopi Goldberg can lend their names to Internet startups, so can the 360 residents of Halfway, Ore. In fact, the town only needed to lend half its name to get in on the launch of an e-commerce site for selling goods person to person.
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AmEx customers see red over Blue
Description: The forecast for the American Express Blue card is looking partly cloudy. The company told thousands who were approved for Blue after Oct. 20 to expect their cards in three weeksjust in time for holiday shopping. But three months later, some are still waiting.
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The Levi Lesson
Description: ffy relations with traditional retailers and confidence in brand names have combined to send would-be PC buyers direct to manufacturers. Computer manufacturers started shipping direct because stores werent knowledgeable about their products, says Harry Wolhandler, vice president of research at ActivMedia, a consulting firm in Peterborough, N.H.
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