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E-marketplaces: Where are they now?
News Turns out that $800,000 number wasn't, alas, that far off the mark for at least one metric of e-marketplace activity. What's confusing about throwing such big numbers around is that it can lose the underlying point: e-marketplace (release 1.0) hasn...
[December 16, 2003, 12:20]
Amazon beats expectations on higher sales
News Amazon.com posted a narrower-than-expected loss Tuesday, with sales up 21 percent from last year on strong performance from the e-tailer's Marketplace and books, music and video segments. Leading to Amazon's strong quarter was the growth of...
[April 24, 2002, 9:45]
Planet 2000: Computing giants debate B2B strategies
News An e-marketplace is a kind of virtual shopping centre for businesses and their suppliers, designed to replace complicated, static one-to-one relationships with dynamic features such as auctions. IBM, which announced a marketplace for computer...
[May 12, 2000, 11:16]
Commerce One goes back to its roots
News Commerce One is betting that companies need software that automates purchasing more than e-marketplace applications. The e-marketplace software maker laid off nearly half its staff in a major restructuring effort and posted a $2.58bn net loss for...
[January 24, 2002, 12:35]
The Day Ahead: ICG's Rightworks hopes to take on Ariba
News RightWorks, which provides e-procurement and marketplace software, intends to make business-to-business software a three-horse race between RightWorks, Commerce One and Ariba. Unkeless said RightWorks will launch new versions of its e-procurement...
[September 18, 2000, 11:28]
The great B2B shootout
News IBM announced on Tuesday new wireless capabilities and features for its WebSphere Commerce Server Marketplace Edition product, a product not due to ship until September, first on the RS/6000 Unix system.
[May 17, 2000, 16:11]
Putting PIM on a pedestal
News Office products vendor Corporate Express is about to abandon its old system -- a private marketplace it runs using an Oracle database back end, a Microsoft Access front end, and a collection of SQL scripts to tie it all together, and replace it...
[November 7, 2002, 11:35]
Mandelson launches 'bold' e-commerce initiative
News Mandelson said: "To succeed in the next century, Britain must become a leading nation on the Internet which is now the fastest growing marketplace in the global economy. To this end the government has pledged itself to triple the number of UK small...
[December 17, 1998, 10:21]
The Day Ahead: Is Oracle the next Microsoft of B2B?
News The to-be-named marketplace suite promises to revolutionise business by offering companies one-stop shopping for the entire range of e-business marketplace services," said Commerce One. The Microsoft rulebook is the following: use the Windows...
[June 21, 2000, 12:35]
Microsoft opens Web for small biz
News And Microsoft will take special aim at small businesses with its MSN Marketplace, a set of tools and services that allow companies to set up Internet "storefronts" with transaction capability using simple browser-based tools, according to analysts...
[March 4, 1999, 17:14]
Amazon strategy shift may threaten eBay
News Amazon's Marketplace unit collects fees and a share of the profits by allowing sellers to offer used goods to its more than 29 million customers. Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos and other executives met with bankers over the weekend in Seattle...
[May 15, 2002, 9:09]
UK government to trial XML e-procurement system
News That is just going to open up the government marketplace to a phenomenal extent -- all those small innovative SMEs that don't get a look in at the moment will be on an equal footing with anyone else. It brings competition to the marketplace which...
[June 18, 2003, 15:32]
Ariba move to provide more online data
News The move exemplifies what analysts consider the second phase of growth for business-to-business exchanges, in which marketplace software makers and marketplace owners are adding more value to their product lines through applications that do more...
[January 25, 2001, 16:14]
Ariba seals deals with Dell and Amex
News Dell also plans to use Ariba's technology to form a B2B online marketplace and to bundle the Ariba application with its PowerEdge servers. The B2B marketplace is expected to be available by the third quarter.
[March 15, 2000, 7:15]
Microsoft to open Passport to competition
News In the end, a large federation of Passport-powered sites will form a huge marketplace, Microsoft hopes. Microsoft also will allow third parties, such as telecommunications service providers, to register Passport members or create trusted links...
[September 20, 2001, 13:10]
Amazon chief: We'll make $1bn a quarter
News Bezos was in London on Monday to promote the UK launch of Amazon's Used Stores offering, part of its online Marketplace service which allows customers to buy and sell new, used and collectable items. Marketplace has been up and running in the US...
[October 8, 2002, 8:37]
E-commerce minister chases digital dragon
News Timms has also urged British technology companies to take advantage of the massive potential of China as a marketplace for their products and services. The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has embarked on a visit to the Far East to try and...
[July 9, 2002, 11:35]
E-commerce sites making moves offline
News A spokesman for Continental Research believes that while online has grown its market share it still hasn't tempted shoppers away from the high street altogether -- perhaps further evidence of why e-commerce sites now need to make concerted forays...
[November 24, 2004, 11:20]
Commerce One president heads to AOL
News Kimmitt, who has been with Commerce One for nearly a year and a half, will remain a member of the e-marketplace company's board of directors. Commerce One president Robert Kimmitt is stepping down to take a position at AOL Time Warner, according to...
[June 19, 2001, 10:55]
Microsoft Store retail website launched
News Microsoft also currently operates its Windows Marketplace e-commerce site, which it began testing in 2004. With the launch of the Microsoft Store, Windows Marketplace will shut down as an e-commerce site.
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