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The final final end of Garden.com
Description: The final final end of Garden.com Garden.com Inc., once the darling of analysts and investors as a model of online retailing, wound up its liquidation this week, a year after it
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The affluent online penny-pincher
Description: Online shopping has mirrored many of the patterns found in retail offline. But thats not necessarily the case when it comes to comparison shopping, according to new data from comScore Networks Inc.s Media Metrix division. The bargain-hunter online is less likely to be a penny-pincher with limited disposable than a well-heeled consumer with access to better technology in the form of high-speed connections, Media Metrix found.
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eLoyalty Provides Business Update
Description: Raises First Quarter Revenue Estimate, Discusses New Customer Acquisition, Reviews Progress of Its Primary Service Lines and Updates Hiring Plans
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COMMERCIALWARE DELIVERS SPEED, INTEGRATION TO COMPETITIVE CYCLISTS RETAIL SYSTEM
Description: Professional-Quality Bike Merchant To Automate Order Management, Centralize Customer Service and Connect Online and Retail Data
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The Finish Line says Genesco is in breach of merger agreement
Description: The Finish Line says Genesco is in breach of merger agreement The Finish Line Inc. says Genesco Inc. has yet to supply the necessary financial records it requires to close their
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CDNow Still Needs White Knight
Description: CDNow Still Needs White Knight CDnow says it's still seeking and investment or merger partner and that there's no assurance it will receive an offer by June 30, the date it
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Vitamin Shoppe Goes Public
Description: Vitamin Shoppe Goes Public VitaminShoppe.com, Inc., an online retailer of vitamins, nutritional supplements and minerals, has raised $50 million in an initial public offering.
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Amazon names a new European general manager
Description: Amazon names a new European general manager Amazon.com Inc. has named Thomas Lot its European vice president and general manager. Lot will also serve as managing director of
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Customer-reviews provider PowerReviews gets $15 million in funding
Description: Customer-reviews provider PowerReviews gets $15 million in funding PowerReviews, a provider of technology that lets online retailers display customer-generated product reviews,
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June Online Spending Fueled by Grads & Dads
Description: June Online Spending Fueled by Grads & Dads A HREF="http://www.nrf.com">The National Retail Federation and Forrester Research, in conjunction with Greenfield Online, have issued
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First half of 03: Hard to repeat last years growth
Description: Online retail sales were up 15% in the first half of this year vs. first half of last year, reports comScore Networks Inc.s Media Metrix division, reaching $22.7 billion. While impressive growth, its only half of last years first-half growth rate of 29%. Meanwhile, the Commerce Department reported online sales growth in the first half of 27%. ComScore says the difference is the result of the Commerce Department including auto sales in its numbers. Channel shift is happening in online travel sales as well, with first half travel bookings up 34% vs. a year ago. Heres comScores story about online retail and travel activity in the first half:
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Talbots names a new operations executive
Description: Talbots names a new operations executive The Talbots Inc. has a new operations executive. The retailer, No. 62 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, has appointed Philip H.
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70% of retailers plan to upgrade or replace web infrastructure this year
Description: 70% of retailers plan to upgrade or replace web infrastructure this year 70% of retailers plan to upgrade or replace their Internet infrastructure, including servers and routers
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Strategies and Profiles: Page 425
Description: CoolSavings NRF Multi-Channel HotWheels.com WalMart.com CPGs` DIY
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Nabisco Quick Delivery Deal
Description: Nabisco Quick Delivery Deal PDQuick, a direct-to-home delivery retailer, says that Nabisco Inc. will supply PDQuick customers nationwide with cookies, crackers, snacks and other
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Volkswagen rolls out web-based dealer network
Description: Volkswagen rolls out web-based dealer network Volkswagen of America has launched its first dealer in the new web-based Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail network,
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Customers & Marketing: Page 268
Description: DMA TruServe HNC CRM MSN FairMarket eBay BlueLight.com CRM
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DOLLARDAYS EXPANDS HEADQUARTERS IN RESPONSE TO GROWTH
Description: Premier Small-Business Discount Wholesaler Moves to New DollarDays Central, Six Times Larger than Previous Office
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Airline loyalty programs driving up retail purchases
Description: Airline loyalty programs driving up retail purchases Loyalty programs as a subset of affiliate marketing programs are gaining ground among retailers, with those that have an
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E-retail rises ahead of holiday wave
Description: E-retail rises ahead of holiday wave Internet shoppers spent an estimated $222 million online last week, an increase of $21 million over the prior week, according to a study by
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How Blinds.com uses web analytics to set retail prices with suppliers
Description: How Blinds.com uses web analytics to set retail prices with suppliers Approaching its first anniversary of the use of web analytics, Blinds.com reveals that the technology has
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Anything You Want
Description: Kiosks in the center aisle: Some retailers new hope for battling hypermarkets
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Google allows advertisers to target ads to specific sites
Description: Google allows advertisers to target ads to specific sites Google Inc. will allow advertisers to choose on which third-party sites their ads will appear, Google announced this
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PFSweb lands Legos online store and North American catalog fulfillment
Description: PFSweb lands Legos online store and North American catalog fulfillment PFSweb Inc. has landed a five-year deal to provide Lego Brand Retail Inc. with order fulfillment for its
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Merchandising strategy affects content management choices, analyst says
Description: Merchandising strategy affects content management choices, analyst says Web content management is a mature technology market with plenty of choices among vendors, but retailers
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Why Furniture.com thinks furniture retailers have room for better analytics
Description: Why Furniture.com thinks furniture retailers have room for better analytics As a way to sign up more large furniture chain retailers and possibly other multi-channel merchants in
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Alibris acquires European rare bookseller classicforum.com
Description: Alibris acquires European rare bookseller classicforum.com Alibris, a global supplier of hard-to-find books, has acquired the assets of classicforum.com, a European online seller
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Drugstore.com appoints two new board members
Description: Drugstore.com appoints two new board members Drugstore.com Inc., an online retailer of health, beauty, vision and pharmacy products, has appointed Richard W. Bennett III and
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Customers & Marketing: Page 303
Description: CouponCraze.com
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Bear Creek Selects Coremetrics for Detailed Analysis of Site Behavior
Description: Leading Specialty Retailer Chooses Coremetrics` Profile-Based Hosted Web Analytics to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Conversion
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Circle K looks to web-based kiosks to drive traffic
Description: Circle K looks to web-based kiosks to drive traffic Circle Ks plan to deploy web-enabled kiosks, called ZapLink kiosks, at its convenience stores includes some interesting
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CyberSource Offers Free Fraud Prevention to Small Business Users
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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The fall and rise of Bloomingdales.com
Description: The fall and rise of Bloomingdales.com In 1999, Federated Department Stores was going to make a big splash in e-commerce. It bought Fingerhut for $1.7 billion and planned to use
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Online shoppers want smooth shopping, free delivery and bargains
Description: Online shoppers want smooth shopping, free delivery and bargains Online shoppers find site search the most useful element of a retail web site by a wide margin, says a new
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Scoring by breaking out of a niche
Description: Time was when a marketer catered to a b2b market or to a b2c market. The Internet has changed that. With common systems that can extend a marketer`s reach nationwide, the web makes moving from b2b to b2c easier than ever. Take Sport Supply Group Inc. as an example. A manufacturer and direct marketer of sports and recreation equipment ranging from basketballs to billiards tables, Sport Supply specializes in selling to institutions.
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Lakeshore Learning Delivers Perfection With Kewill
Description: 50 Years of Continuous Growth Drives Increased Automation
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Pay-for-performance pays off for FindWhat.com
Description: Pay-for-performance pays off for FindWhat.com Click-throughs on paid search results have more than tripled in the past year at FindWhat.com, a pay-for-placement search engine,
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Universal search changes the rules for Q4 search marketing, says OneUpWeb
Description: Universal search changes the rules for Q4 search marketing, says OneUpWeb Online holiday marketers take note: universal search and the way search engines can now pull from web
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Froogle gets a boost from Googles promotion
Description: Froogle gets a boost from Googles promotion As soon as Google began promoting its Froogle online shopping service, Froogles share of Internet traffic shot up 319% and pushed
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Strategies and Profiles: Page 502
Description: eLuxury.com GoTo SearchUP JPMorgan Auction-Sales.Com WhyRunOut, CDs UK, CFO
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Yahoo! Music Licenses Sonic AuthorScript CD/DVD BurningTechnology; Sonic AuthorScript Powers Disc Burning Solution for Yahoo! Music
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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The Beauty of Eve.com
Description: The Beauty of Eve.com Recent traffic rankings by both PC Data Online and Media Metrix place Eve.com ahead of other beauty sites in what's become a beastly competition. PC Data
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NEWTEK MERCHANT SOLUTIONS SELECTS MERCANTEC FOR INTERNET E-COMMERCE PRODUCT OFFERING
Description: Merchant Customers and Agents Receive an Easy and Secure E-Commerce Solution
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Search company 360i hires director for fast-growing media services division
Description: Search company 360i hires director for fast-growing media services division Search marketing agency 360i has hired Laura Mete Frizzell to direct and develop the expansion of
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Almost 30% of eRetailers not protected from fraud; WorldPay launches "virtual store detective"
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Time Warner & AOL in Mega Merger
Description: Time Warner & AOL in Mega Merger America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. today announced a stock-for-stock merger valued at $350 billion. The new enterprise, to be named AOL
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Ace Hardware broadens reach of loyalty program with new e-commerce site
Description: Ace Hardware broadens reach of loyalty program with new e-commerce site With the recent re-launch of its web site to conduct e-commerce, Ace Hardware Corp. is extending the reach
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17% of Spanish online consumers shop on the Internet, study says
Description: 17% of Spanish online consumers shop on the Internet, study says About 2 million Spanish online consumers bought a product or service online during the second quarter, a 90%
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MONSTERCOMMERCE SELECTS LIVESITEMANAGER
Description: Partnership Gives Thousands of MonsterCommerce Merchants Access to LiveSiteManager
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iXL Draws More Top Consulting Talent
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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