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Criminals will steal about $3 billion through U.S. e-commerce, study says
Description: Criminals will steal about $3 billion through U.S. e-commerce, study says Criminals will steal about $3 billion this year from U.S. e-commerce sites, up 7% from $2.8 billion in
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Love it/hate itbut most merchants use PPC marketing
Description: Love it/hate itbut most merchants use PPC marketing According to a survey of 100 e-commerce executives by The e-Tailing Group, 66% have been investing in pay-per-click marketing
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Gomez appoints Tom Meusel to new position of VP, worldwide channel sales
Description: Gomez appoints Tom Meusel to new position of VP, worldwide channel sales Tom Meusel, former vice president of channel sales at Demandware Inc., joins web site performance
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Demandware names former Oracle, Sterling Commerce execs as vice presidents
Description: Demandware names former Oracle, Sterling Commerce execs as vice presidents Jamus Driscoll, a former marketing executive at Oracle Corp., and Tom Griffin, former vice president of
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Escalate Retail appoints Spence Mallder as new senior vice president
Description: Escalate Retail appoints Spence Mallder as new senior vice president Escalate Retail, a provider of sales, merchandising and loyalty solutions for retailers, has named Spence
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A fashion retailer enters the music business
Description: A fashion retailer enters the music business Under a partnership with Barber Entertainment Corp., Nordstrom Inc., No. 40 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide to Retail Web
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Sun Capital and Golden Gate Capital acquire Eddie Bauer
Description: Sun Capital and Golden Gate Capital acquire Eddie Bauer Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. is under new ownership. The company, No. 46 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide to Retail Web
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BabyUniverse establishes 3-person office of the president
Description: BabyUniverse establishes 3-person office of the president Content, e-commerce and new media company BabyUniverse, No. 235 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide to Retail Web
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Benchmark Brands names a new manager of call center operations
Description: Benchmark Brands names a new manager of call center operations Benchmark Brands has appointed John Caplinger as director of customer care. Caplinger joins Benchmark Brands from
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Shutterflys Q3 revenue rises 36% year-over-year
Description: Shutterflys Q3 revenue rises 36% year-over-year Shutterfly Inc., which lets its users upload, edit and share digital photos at Shutterfly.com, says revenue rose 36% to $21.2
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Former Demandware exec joins OrderMotion as vice president of marketing
Description: Former Demandware exec joins OrderMotion as vice president of marketing OrderMotion Inc., provider of an on-demand retail operations platform for multi-channel merchants, has
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Head of the Class
Description: E-learning systems are learning new tricks for keeping up with workforce demands on retailers
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Hitting the Inbox
Description: How transactional e-mail can strengthen customer ties and increase sales
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Cost & security
Description: Low-cost alternative payment methods that tout greater security are challenging credit cards` hold on e-retailing.
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Movie madness
Description: The shape of things to come: How video on demand may restructure DVD rentals and sales.
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Italy, Spain growing faster than UK in e-commerce
Description: The United Kingdom is the leader in European e-commerce, with sales dwarfing those of its neighborsand its projected to keep its lofty position for years to come, Forrester Research says in a new series of eCommerce Forecast reports. But Forrester projects e-commerce sales in Italy and Spain to increase at faster cumulative annual growth rates of 31% and 27%, respectively, from 2006 to 2011, compared to 12% for the UK.
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Targeting behavior to catch the most customers with online ads
Description: Conventional wisdom says that to catch a fish, you have to go where the fish are. But to stretch a metaphor, fish arent always where youd expect to find them. In fact, ad network BlueLithium found in a study that behaviorally targeted online advertising often produced a higher conversion rate when served out of context than in context.
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eBay leads in visits to online shipping sites in September
Description: eBay leads in visits to online shipping sites in September EBay.com recorded the most traffic of the top 10 online shopping sites in September, with 57.6 million visits, up 9%
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Napsters revenue goes up and its loss goes down in the second quarter
Description: Napsters revenue goes up and its loss goes down in the second quarter Revenue at Napster Inc. for its fiscal second quarter rose 9% to $25.5 million from $23.4 million a year
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A multi-channel pioneer tries to sharpen its focus on multi-channel retailing
Description: Over the last 30 years, Sharper Image Corp. has emerged as one of the more effective retailers selling through multiple channels, blazing the way to selling online, on TV and through catalogs as well as stores. With a global reach, its annual web sales have surpassed $100 million, putting it at No. 87 in the 2006 edition of the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. They were unbelievable, says Jim Okamura, senior partner with retail consultants J.C. Williams and Co. They were leading the pack among specialty retailers.
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Trouble in Wal-Marts Toyland
Description: Who could find fault with two friendly elves presiding over Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s Toyland microsite? Well, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, for one, a child advocacy group that charges the retail giant is ruthlessly coming between parents and children and actively encouraging kids to nag for their holiday gifts. It has called on its 7,000 member to write Wal-Mart to urge that the site be shut down.
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Amazon debuts interest-free financing on select electronics products
Description: Amazon debuts interest-free financing on select electronics products Amazon.com has introduced interest-free financing on selected products in Amazon.coms Electronics store in
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eBay, Amazon and Apple get most visitors from outside U.S., new study says
Description: eBay, Amazon and Apple get most visitors from outside U.S., new study says The majority of visitors by far to top U.S. web sites, including eBay, Amazon, Apple Computer,
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Attack of the Spiders
Description: If e-retailers want to maximize search efforts, they better know where spiders like to feast
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Shopping Spree
Description: Online retailers have great expectations for holiday traffic and sales
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Netflix bets $1 million it can fend off Amazon
Description: When youre the leader in online rentals of DVDsthanks largely to a popular personalization engine that recommends movies to watchits tough to stay ahead of the competition. Especially when heavyweights like Amazon.com Inc.which is putting its own personalization expertise behind its new offerings in online DVD and video on-demand servicesare taking bold steps into the business of serving up movies to watch at home.
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Best Buy takes on Apple with its own digital music store
Description: Apple Computer Inc. continues to dominate the digital music market, accounting for 85% of songs downloaded in the U.S. from the Internet, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Moreover, Apple continues to roll out millions of its popular iPod media player, selling 39 million units in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, and its customers had downloaded 150 million songs as of Oct. 14.
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Putting a pretty face on e-mail to boost conversion rates
Description: Marketers know that the right product at the right price targeted to the right audience at the right time is the key to success. But a campaigns creative elements are the icing on the cake, and the truth, as stated in a new study of e-mail creative best practices from Silverpop Systems Inc., is that the right icing can help sell even bland cake.
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Yesmail agrees to pay CAN-SPAM penalty
Description: Yesmail agrees to pay CAN-SPAM penalty E-mail service provider Yesmail Inc., an infoUSA company, has agreed to pay a $50,717 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission
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New Wave
Description: Ever-changing requirements in the e-commerce job market keep recruiters nimble
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The Perfect Fit
Description: Carefully implementing the right personalization techniques and technologies to enhance online merchandising, marketing and shopping can help cross-sell and upsell, retain customers, and boost sales.
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From YouTube to `GoogTube,` online video moves up in viral marketing
Description: When Larry and Sergey met Steve and Chad, the four focused on combining two powers of the Internetweb search and online videoto create a powerful new traffic-generating platform for building advertising and other forms of online revenue. And in agreeing to pay $1.65 billion in Google Inc. stock for all of YouTube Inc., Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are betting large that mixing Internet search and online video will reap oodles of new revenue.
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Callaway Golf launches new online venture with retailers
Description: Callaway Golf launches new online venture with retailers Callaway Golf Co. has launched an online store for direct-to-consumer sales of new golf equipment and apparel that will
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Retail Romance
Description: Husband and wife docs are back in school, this time studying the intricacies of Internet retailing
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In Brief
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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BlueNile.com fine-tunes on-site Diamond Search by adding My ratings
Description: BlueNile.com fine-tunes on-site Diamond Search by adding My ratings BlueNile.com continues to fine-tune its already powerful Diamond Search on-site search tool with the
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Tying site search to the business cycle
Description: Tying site search to the business cycle Next generation site search applications will be far more intuitive and deliver search results that are much more specific to a web
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ShopNBC will open an Amazon store
Description: ShopNBC will open an Amazon store ValueVision Media Inc., a television home shopping and Internet retailer, has agreed to sell products from its ShopNBC channel at Amazon.com.
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Autonomy, FAST, Endeca tops in Gartner site search study
Description: Autonomy, FAST, Endeca tops in Gartner site search study The leading providers of site search technology share an ability to provide consumers with an effective means of
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B&H Photo launches Knova search technology to support customer service
Description: B&H Photo launches Knova search technology to support customer service B&H Photo-Video-Pro Audio is moving toward a more efficient customer self-service system integrated with
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Sharper Images top executives resign
Description: Sharper Images top executives resign Six weeks after the departure of founder, chairman and CEO Richard Thalheimer, two executives who served closely with him at Sharper Image
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Redcats USA launches one-stop shopping plus-size fashion site
Description: Redcats USA launches one-stop shopping plus-size fashion site Redcats USA, a multi-channel retailer of apparel, lifestyle, domestic and sporting goods, has launched a
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New site search increases conversions at Delightful Deliveries
Description: New site search increases conversions at Delightful Deliveries Since implementing site search and merchandising software from Mercado Software this spring,
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New navigation tool improves site search at Footwear Etc.
Description: New navigation tool improves site search at Footwear Etc. Footwear etc. has experienced a dramatic improvement in the navigability of its e-commerce site since it began using SLI
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Amazon to offer U2 concert footageand the chance to pre-order the CD
Description: Amazon to offer U2 concert footageand the chance to pre-order the CD One of the effects of the spread of broadband Internet access into homes is the richer content that retail
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JR.com finds new e-commerce platform works better for site search
Description: JR.com finds new e-commerce platform works better for site search JR.com, the retail web site for J&R Electronics Inc., finds that one of the advantages of migrating to a new
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Convera to develop vertical search solution for ProGames Network
Description: Convera to develop vertical search solution for ProGames Network Convera Corp., a provider of search technologies for professional workers, has signed an agreement to develop a
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Ice.com heats up plans for webcasting
Description: Ice.com heats up plans for webcasting After a delay while it integrated its recent acquisition of Diamond.com, Ice.com now expects to launch an online video initiative within 45
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Microsoft launches Agora product-loading service for web search
Description: Microsoft launches Agora product-loading service for web search Microsoft Corp.s new service for uploading product data to its Internet search index is designed to make an
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Q2 web sales drop 10% at Indigo Books & Music
Description: Q2 web sales drop 10% at Indigo Books & Music E-commerce sales at Indigo Books & Music Inc. dropped by 9.8% in the second quarter while total sales declined 2.41%. Despite the
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