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Nintendo UK plays up game products on web-based, in-store displays Description: Nintendo UK plays up game products on web-based, in-store displays With a hot product like its Wii game console about to hit retail stores in the United Kingdom, Nintendo UK is
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Nintendo launches an online customer loyalty program Description: Nintendo launches an online customer loyalty program As part of its re-designed Nintendo.com, electronic games marketer Nintendo of America Inc. is presenting a new customer
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Nintendo scores biggest gain in traffic among top computer hardware sites Description: Nintendo scores biggest gain in traffic among top computer hardware sites Nintendo, the maker of online games and consoles, scored the highest year-to-year increase in January
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Nintendo, Xbox lead traffic growth to computer hardware manufacturer sites Description: Nintendo, Xbox lead traffic growth to computer hardware manufacturer sites Online game device providers Nintendo and Xbox led in traffic growth to computer hardware
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No Bones About It: Fossil Hits The Web Before Opening Offline Stores Description: No Bones About It: Fossil Hits The Web Before Opening Offline Stores Fossil Inc. has unveiled its latest product line, an extensive collection of Fossil-brand apparel, jeans and
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No Dog Days if eToys Can Help It Description: No Dog Days if eToys Can Help It eToys is taking no summer vacation and will open a seasonal specialty shop featuring nearly 1,000 books, toys and children's travel products. In
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No Fallout: Veteran online shoppers are spending more Description: The negative news about e-retailers is not scaring away shoppers, says the latest e.commerce-Pulse survey from Harris Internactive. In fact, those who shop online are more comfortable than ever. Harriss evidence: Online shoppers in the second quarter continued their trend of shopping and buying more online rather than shopping online and buying offline. In some categories, online purchasing far outstrips offline. For instance, online buyers of flowers, gifts and cards spend 31 cents offline for every dollar online; in books, the ratio is 43 cents. Harris Interactive polls as many as 100,000 online consumers every quarter who have opted into Harriss survey.
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No Fear Description: Give the green light for online buying with high-assurance SSL certificates
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No Horsing Around Description: It`s a virtual zoo at PetsUnited, where animals - and sales - are multiplying
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No Launch For Dnet Description: No Launch For Dnet DNet, an Internet-based same-day delivery service scheduled to launch this fall, is shutting down its operations. The San Francisco-based company planned to
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No Results Found needs more than Sorry, says usability consultant Description: No Results Found needs more than Sorry, says usability consultant Error messages are a fact of life in site search, due to misspellings and other issues, even with the best
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No Small Change Description: Which works better? I would be concerned about putting all my personal information on a server for a bank to access, says Jeff Sumner, marketing manager for payments suite at IBM. Not surprisingly, client-side wallet issuers like IBM argue that maintaining credit card numbers and other data on the consumers PC minimizes the need for a secure server infrastructure on the Internet.
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No Speeding Description: How Canadian Tire rolled into supply chain collaboration in low gear
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No baloney: Wireless fidelity is attracting new customers to Schlotzskys Description: No baloney: Wireless fidelity is attracting new customers to Schlotzskys Schlotzskys Inc. President and CEO John Wooley had a hunch that offering free wireless fidelity
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No comparison: web sites easily beat store prices on cameras and TVs Description: No comparison: web sites easily beat store prices on cameras and TVs Consumers can save between 10% and 87% by buying digital cameras and high-definition televisions online
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No credit card needed: Amazon offers corporate accounts Description: No credit card needed: Amazon offers corporate accounts Business on the web is resembling traditional business more and more. Today, Amazon.com launched a Corporate Accounts
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No end in sight: eBay drop-off stores continue to expand Description: No end in sight: eBay drop-off stores continue to expand Among the more than 20 new companies accepting items for listing on eBay, several have announced expansion plans in the
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No end to growth of web-based retail selling, says new eMarketer report Description: No end to growth of web-based retail selling, says new eMarketer report Theres plenty of growth left in the online retailing market, says the new North America E-Commerce: B2C
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No fall-off in online shopping growth, BizRate reports Description: No fall-off in online shopping growth, BizRate reports Growth in online shopping has stayed strong, even after the end of the hoiday shopping season, BizRate.com reports. In the
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No fish story: Customer reviews reel in higher sales at BassPro.com Description: No fish story: Customer reviews reel in higher sales at BassPro.com Bass Pro Shops has significantly increased conversions on BassPro.com since featuring ratings and reviews from
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No let-up in 2002s torrid online shopping growth Description: No let-up in 2002s torrid online shopping growth The e-retailing boom that has been developing since the start of the year shows no sign of letting up, say the latest numbers
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No longer a man's world: Women's online presence is growing Description: No longer a man's world: Women's online presence is growing Women now account for 37.1 million of all U.S. adult Internet users, representing 49% of the total active online
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No longer a pure-play: BackcountryStore.com debuts a catalog Description: No longer a pure-play: BackcountryStore.com debuts a catalog Pure-play online retailer BackcountryStore.com goes multi-channel this week with the launch of its first catalog. The
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No longer a secret: Employees shop at work and bosses tolerate it Description: Most online retailers experience the Monday phenomenonand most researchers confirm it: Unlike store shopping where the weekends experience the heaviest volume, online retailings volumes occur during the week, starting with Monday and tapering off as the week progresses. The explanation is well known: Consumers back at their desks log onto web sites using their companys broadband connection to buy at retail web sites.
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No longer gone in 8 seconds Description: Customize the content, goes the thinking at CheckOut.com, and shoppers will load their carts with videos and DVDs to do just what the name suggests. Thats why the entertainment site wants to tailor every page to fit customers profilesand serve up to one million dynamically generated pages per hour. The goal was to do that without buying a lot of hardware or enough Oracle to make Larry Ellison really happy, says chief technology officer Edmond Mesrobian.
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No longer landlocked on Main Street Description: You cant blame the fading of Main Street merchants on the Internet. After all, the corner five-and-dime has been disappearing for years, thanks to discounters and changing demographics. But there are plenty of spunky survivors. And as online giants like Amazon.com compete with new product linesits latest is kitchen appliancessmall retailers are making their own online moves via community portals.
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No more auto-pilot for affiliate programs, retailers say Description: No more auto-pilot for affiliate programs, retailers say Affiliate marketing is coming under more intense scrutiny as merchants begin to understand the costs of maintaining
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No more bare walls at Barewalls Description: Barewalls Interactive Art Inc. has gotten a new owner who plans to double the number of products on offer. "We are telling our _suppliers we want to carry everything they have," says Steven Gardner, vice president of sales and marketing. That will push Barewalls inventory from 150,000 prints to 300,000.
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No more bookstore rush for some college students Description: No more bookstore rush for some college students The traditional rush at college bookstores starts more than a month earlier when students buy their textbooks online, reports
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No more expiration dates on GiftCertificates.com `s SuperCertificate Description: No more expiration dates on GiftCertificates.com `s SuperCertificate GiftCertificates.com announced today that it will remove expiration dates from its flagship SuperCertificate
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No more one-size-fits-all as retailers learn to allocate live chat staffs Description: No more one-size-fits-all as retailers learn to allocate live chat staffs Retailers are getting more sophisticated in their use of live chat reps, dividing them into separate
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No more silos: Bad customer service online means lost sales offline Description: No more silos: Bad customer service online means lost sales offline Poor online customer service from a click-and-mortar retailer will drive as much as 70% of U.S.-based online
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No more sounds of silence on the web Description: No more sounds of silence on the web Flashing, animated or popping-up ads are no longer enough when it comes to online advertising, says a study from BabyCenter.com, a portal for
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No more wading around in the water looking for lost balls Description: No more wading around in the water looking for lost balls Back in 1996, the antediluvian days of Internet retailing, starting an e-commerce site, nonetheless a tiny niche
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No need for a makeover of online beauty product sales Description: No need for a makeover of online beauty product sales Despite the recent closing of Gloss.com, web shoppers clearly like purchasing beauty products online, says a new report from
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No ones lonely at Valentines Day-related retail web sites Description: No one’s lonely at Valentine’s Day-related retail sites
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No rubber stamp for software patents Description: In a bid to defuse a potentially crippling explosion of Internet business-method patents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month outlined a process to work closer with the e-commerce industry and improve patent screening. The plan coincides with the office being named one of two so-called performance-based organizations, a federal designation that will give the agency more flexibility in procurement, hiring and staff pay in exchange for meeting certain goals. Were listening to our customers and trying to improve our pro-cesses, says patent commissioner Nick Godici.
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No sale yet, but Fingerhut talks continue Description: No sale yet, but Fingerhut talks continue The future of web and catalog merchant Fingerhut remains uncertain, more than a month after Business Development Group Acquisitions and
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No store inventory search at JCPenney.com for now Description: No store inventory search at JCPenney.com for now J.C. Penney Co. Inc. has deferred for a year plans to allow online customers to search store inventories so they can come to the
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No surprise here: Dot-com closings accelerate Description: No surprise here: Dot-com closings accelerate A new study by Webmergers reports that 21 dot-com companies have closed in the first half of November, nearly as many as in all of
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No surprise on Valentines Day: Flowers, cards, jewelry, food sites boom Description: No surprise on Valentines Day: Flowers, cards, jewelry, food sites boom Sales of online flowers for the week ahead of Valentines Day totaled $59.3 million, ComScore Networks
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No suspects yet in merchant processor card theft case Description: No suspects yet in merchant processor card theft case Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service are continuing to investigate the theft of
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No toying around: Ensenda lands delivery deal with FAO Schwarz`s flagship Description: No toying around: Ensenda lands delivery deal with FAO Schwarz`s flagship Although its latest deal is not web-based, same-day delivery company Ensenda Inc. is intent on proving
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No. 1 on CEOs minds at eTail show: Finding the funding Description: No surprise here: The biggest challenge that a panel of CEOs at eTail 2003 East in August identified as facing todays online retailers is no money for new projects. And they were surprisingly candid in what theyre asking their employees to do as a result. We want to continue to grow our business 100% year over year and its hard to do that while maintaining employee morale and commitment, said panelist Jon Nordmark, president, CEO and chairman of eBags Inc. We are asking for that growth and telling people they arent going to get resources to do it.
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No. of IPTV subscribers could top 50 million in 2010, study says Description: No. of IPTV subscribers could top 50 million in 2010, study says IPTV, which supports combined TV and web shopping by delivering TV programming via the Internet, will grow its
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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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Nokia and Google to 0ffer Google Search to Nokia customers worldwide Description: Industry leaders collaborate to provide mobile users fast and easy access to relevant information
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Non-branded keywords can help convert searchers to buyers, study says Description: Non-branded keywords can help convert searchers to buyers, study says Many marketers focus only on the conversion rate of their branded keywords, but using non-branded terms in
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Noodles & Company Selects Cognos ReportNet as Reporting Standard Description: Rapidly expanding fresh-food casual restaurant looks to Cognos ReportNet to support further growth plans throughout North America
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NordicTrack.com pushing more into apparel sales Description: NordicTrack.com pushing more into apparel sales No longer just a brand for exotic exercise machines, NordicTrack is using the web to expand further into activewear apparel sales
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