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WebSideStorys Q1 revenue doubles over year-ago Q1
Description: WebSideStorys Q1 revenue doubles over year-ago Q1 First quarter revenue at WebSideStory Inc., provider of web analytics and online marketing services, increased 93% over Q1
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Internet Retailer 2006
Description: A preview of what speakers will discuss at Internet Retailer 2006: Taking E-Retailing to the Next Level.
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Sourcing Sense
Description: For Gap, the web brings more science into the art of sourcing operational supplies
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Busy just doesn`t describe it
Description: Anyone whos ever been involved in organizing a major industry conference knows how frantic things can get a few weeks before the show. There are hundreds of details that need to be managed in a short period of time. Everything must come together by show timeeverythingthe speakers, presentation materials and conference notebooks, signs, audio-visual equipment, recording and registration systems, conference badges and tickets, food and beverage items, show decorations, tote bags and inserts, room drops, exhibit booths, Internet links, bus shuttles to the conference, magazine distributions, trade show guides, stickers for drawings (I cant elaborate) and even singers and musicians. Yet, in addition to providing a lot of very practical information about taking your retail web site to the next level of performance, we are planning to have some fun at Internet Retailer 2006 Conference & Exhibition in Chicago on June 5-7.
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Looking Smarter
Description: Under the guidance of new CEO David Hills, LookSmart redefines its mission from one to hundreds
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Sponsored Article by Channel Intelligence
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Scripps puts Shop At Home Network up for sale
Description: Scripps puts Shop At Home Network up for sale After evaluating various strategic alternatives for web and TV retailer Shop At Home Network, parent E.W. Scripps Co. has put the
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Disney isnt playing around with interactive games
Description: Disney isnt playing around with interactive games Disney Online, a business unit of The Walt Disney Co., is more than doubling the size of its interactive games service.
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FTD Q3 web sales bloom by 11%
Description: FTD Q3 web sales bloom by 11% Thanks in large measure to a big lift in Valentines Day orders, FTD Inc. increased its Q3 2006 e-commerce sales by 11% to $68.9 million from $62.1
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Tug of War
Description: Whose Internet is it, anyway? Online retailers and telcos face off over the future of Internet fees.
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Calling all web sites
Description: Staking a revenue-driving customer service reputation on newfangled VoIP
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Whats it worth to you?
Description: In as fast moving a market as online retailing, its not always easy to know what it costs to attract and retain the best personnel. And if youre part of that personnel, its not always easy to know if youre being paid what youre worth. To help managers understand what they should be offering to get the best staffand employees to know if theres a better deal elsewherePort Washington, N.Y.-based executive recruiters Crandall Associates Inc. has just released the 2006 National Salary Guide-Direct Marketing and Telesales, the latest version of a survey the company has been conducting for 26 years. Here are some stats from the report. Indicative of whats happening online, in some cases the job is too new for enough staffers to have seven years experience to make any numbers meaningful. Hiring managers look at the left figure, prospective employees, look at the right.
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Survey: Multi-channel E-commerce systems
Description: Online retailers face the dual challenge of keeping their e-commerce platforms up to date while integrating them with other systems
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Buy.com and Travelocity ready for a vacation
Description: Buy.com and Travelocity ready for a vacation Buy.com Inc. has launched the Travel Store, an online collaboration with Travelocity LP. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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BabyUniverse moving offices and warehouses across the U.S.
Description: BabyUniverse moving offices and warehouses across the U.S. BabyUniverse Inc. is playing musical chairs, moving offices and warehouses and consolidating operations. The company
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Talk it up
Description: The web turns up the volume on the consumer voice. Brands and retailers better listen.
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What`s Happening?
Description: 5 steps to reaching customers through event-triggered marketing
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694 million people worldwide ages 15+ are online14% of total population
Description: 694 million people worldwide ages 15+ are online14% of total population The World Wide Web may be worldwide, but its use is hardly universal, reports a new index from comScore
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Design Within Reach web sales grow 16% in 2005
Description: Design Within Reach web sales grow 16% in 2005 Design Within Reach Inc., a multi-channel retailer of modern design European-style home furnishings, increased its 2005 e-commerce
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PC Connection grows 2005 web sales by 41%
Description: PC Connection grows 2005 web sales by 41% PC Connection Inc., a direct marketer of personal computers and computer-related gear, is reporting solid e-commerce growth. In its
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Acquisitions help ValueClick achieve 100% growth in Q1
Description: Acquisitions help ValueClick achieve 100% growth in Q1 First quarter revenue for ValueClick Inc., provider of online marketing services, more than doubled this year over last,
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Organize.com to reorganize e-commerce platform and site
Description: Organize.com to reorganize e-commerce platform and site Multi-channel retailer Organize.com Inc. has selected Alexander Interactive Inc. to redesign its e-commerce platform and
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VC company Oak Hill Capital Partners acquires Alibris
Description: VC company Oak Hill Capital Partners acquires Alibris Venture capitalists Oak Hill Capital Partners has acquired Alibris, an online exchange for used, hard-to-find and specialty
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Vive la difference: U.S. vs. European online retailing
Description: Vive la difference: U.S. vs. European online retailing The European online retailing market shows decidedly different characteristics from the U.S. market, according to a new
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Freeborders appoints new EVP of global accounts and operations
Description: Freeborders appoints new EVP of global accounts and operations Outsourced sourcing technology provider Freeborders has named Jim Reesing as executive vice president of global
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Yahoo to power up search advertising platform in new release
Description: Yahoo to power up search advertising platform in new release The competition for online marketers paid search dollars will go up another notch with the planned completion in the
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Talbots names three senior executives
Description: Talbots names three senior executives The Talbots Inc. has completed its acquisition of The J. Jill Group and has named three senior executives to oversee different aspects of
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Apples iTunes shoots for the basketball business
Description: Apples iTunes shoots for the basketball business Now in addition to soundtracks and music videos, iTunes customers will be able to download to their iPods or computers complete
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iCrossing names a new president
Description: iCrossing names a new president Search engine marketing company iCrossing has named Don Scales as president, overseeing all operations. With Scales` appointment, Jeffrey Pruitt
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Sloan Center for Internet Retailing going west
Description: Sloan Center for Internet Retailing going west Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak, award winning scholars of electronic commerce and Internet marketing at Vanderbilt
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eStara makes 3 executive appointments
Description: eStara makes 3 executive appointments eStara, a provider of multi-channel communications solutions linking buyers and sellers, has promoted Joe Siegrist to chief technology
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Q1 revenue rises 39% year-to-year at live chat company LivePerson
Description: Q1 revenue rises 39% year-to-year at live chat company LivePerson Revenue at LivePerson Inc., provider of customer service and web analytics applications, rose 39% to $6.9
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Online wireless seller InPhonic hires a Best Buy exec as its new COO
Description: Online wireless seller InPhonic hires a Best Buy exec as its new COO InPhonic Inc., an online seller of wireless devices and services, has named former Best Buy and CompUSA
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Former Payless executive named senior vice president at i2 technologies
Description: Former Payless executive named senior vice president at i2 technologies Chuck Kramer has been named senior vice president of i2 Technologies Inc.s retail industry group. Prior
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EBay COO Webb to retire in August
Description: EBay COO Webb to retire in August Maynard Webb, chief operating officer at eBay Inc., will retire from the company in August, eBay has announced. Webb is responsible for
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Apparel cataloger Redcats acquires The Sportsmans Guide
Description: Apparel cataloger Redcats acquires The Sportsmans Guide Redcats USA Inc. is acquiring The Sportsmans Guide Inc. and making a concerted push into sporting goods, an online
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Panasonic posts sharpest gain in traffic in March among electronics sites
Description: Panasonic posts sharpest gain in traffic in March among electronics sites Panasonic posted the sharpest year-to-year gain, 170%, in the number of visits to its site of all
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Sales tax board certifies three software vendors for tax collection
Description: Sales tax board certifies three software vendors for tax collection The Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, which oversees a 19-state program of collecting cross-border sales
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Consumer buying intentions slip, but interest in Internet remains strong
Description: Consumer buying intentions slip, but interest in Internet remains strong After registering its strongest growth in six years in the first quarter, Retail Forward Inc.s Future
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Keynotes Q2 revenue takes a dip
Description: Keynotes Q2 revenue takes a dip Second quarter revenue at web site performance monitoring and management company Keynote Systems Inc. was down 3% to $12.7 million from $13.1
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Retail chain Batteries Plus launches its first e-commerce site
Description: Retail chain Batteries Plus launches its first e-commerce site With 260 stores in 39 states and Puerto Rico, Batteries Plus took the slow, careful road to e-commerceIt launched
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Akamais first quarter revenue grows 51% over year ago
Description: Akamais first quarter revenue grows 51% over year ago First quarter revenue at content acceleration and delivery network Akamai Technologies Inc. was up 51% over Q1 a year ago
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ToolKing starts a lunch-time daily deal
Description: ToolKing starts a lunch-time daily deal Building on the notion that consumers shop online from work, ToolKing.com on Friday launched a lunch-time special promotion. ToolKing, No.
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Sharper Images Q1 web and total slide 26% from year ago
Description: Sharper Images Q1 web and total slide 26% from year ago First quarter Internet sales at Sharper Image Corp. were down 26% to $17.2 million from $23.2 million in the first
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Overstock adds Auctions Checkout payment service
Description: Overstock adds Auctions Checkout payment service Overstock.com has added the Auctions Checkout payment service to its auction platform, enabling sellers to accept credit card
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Online payment fraud approaching rate for stores, study says
Description: Online payment fraud approaching rate for stores, study says 48% of online retailers say they their chargebacks for fraudulent purchase transactions is less than 0.1% of sales,
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Retailers moving toward enterprise payment systems, expert says
Description: Retailers moving toward enterprise payment systems, expert says Multi-brand, multi-channel retailers are moving away from operating with several individual payment systems and
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Visa may offer incentives for merchants to comply with security standard
Description: Visa may offer incentives for merchants to comply with security standard Visa USA is considering offering incentives to encourage merchants to comply with the Payment Card
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Online payment shifting from credit to debit, Jupiter report finds
Description: Online payment shifting from credit to debit, Jupiter report finds As in the offline world, consumers are shifting from credit to debit payment online, with debit transaction
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MasterCard introduces two new security solutions for online transactions
Description: MasterCard introduces two new security solutions for online transactions MasterCard International has introduced two new solutions to help increase security for e-commerce and
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