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E-tailer Boxman Seeks Liquidation
News The company's collapse would make it the highest profile business-to-consumer dot-com casualty since fashion e-tailer boo.com in May. In the first half of this year the e-tailer made losses of £24.1m from a turnover of £5.8m.
[October 11, 2000, 13:31]
E-tailer Boxman Seeks Liquidation
News The company's collapse would make it the highest profile business-to-consumer dot-com casualty since fashion e-tailer boo.com in May. Take me to the e-commerce special. Online CD retailer Boxman is seeking voluntary liquidation after failing to...
[October 11, 2000, 7:48]
Web Application Penetration Testing For Leading E-Tailer
White Papers The company is India's leading retail chain with a strong presence across fast moving consumer goods, apparel, music and education. The company's online shopping portal offers a vast array of merchandise ranging from Apparels and Books to Laptops...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Top Ten E-tailer Overstock.com Selects Foundry For Massive Datacenter Overhaul And New Corporate Headquarters Build-Out
White Papers In 2004, Overstock.com's Salt Lake City campus was about to sprawl. The company desperately needed to revamp its Web site, network, data center, and corporate WLAN. The online retailer wanted to improve performance with higher bandwidth capacity...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
No Fun 'n' Games Here - EToys Axes Its Remaining Staff
News Struggling toy e-tailer eToys on Monday issued layoff notices to its remaining 293 employees as it anticipates going out of business in early April. The job cuts came at the toy e-tailer's Ontario, California, and Blairs, Virginia, distribution...
[February 6, 2001, 8:28]
UPDATE: EToys.co.uk Packs Up Its Toy Chest
News Yet another US e-tailer is packing up and going home. Other UK casualties include flamboyant sports e-tailer boo.com and natural health site clickmango. Find out how the Internet is revolutionising the economy at the E-commerce Special.
[January 3, 2001, 15:42]
Egghead.com Claims Hack Escape
News US e-tailer Egghead.com claimed Monday that no credit card details had been stolen in a hacking attack December. At the time, the e-tailer warned that databases containing customer data could have been affected.
[January 8, 2001, 16:54]
The Day Ahead: Value America Board Members Throw Cash Into The Pit
News Struggling e-tailer Value America would like you to believe that some of its board members gave the company a vote of confidence by forking over $30m (£19.9m) for convertible preferred shares. Now instead of competing with Amazon.com as a one-stop...
[May 11, 2000, 12:03]
AOL Invests $100m In Amazon
News AOL Time Warner invested $100m (about £70m) in Amazon.com as part of a multiyear marketing agreement Monday, as the online e-tailer announced it would likely miss third-quarter revenue expectations. Since financial terms were not disclosed, some...
[July 24, 2001, 9:14]
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. The Seattle-based e-tailer reported a net loss of $23m (£16m...
[April 24, 2002, 9:45]
Online Album Sales Hit UK Charts
News According to CIN e-tailer Amazon has refused to take part in the scheme. Brad Askew, film product director at e-tailer Bol.com is confident that the move will bode well for the future of digital music.
[September 27, 2000, 7:12]
Japanese Mobiles Try Paying By Photo
News By sending the image to the Mediastick's phone number, the bar code is extracted from the picture, processed for product information and the buyer's personal data sent to the e-tailer, who in turn bills the buyer and ships the product.
[July 30, 2003, 11:55]
The Day Ahead: Amazon Learns New Word (profit), Wall Street Cheers
News The e-tailer is the clear leader in books and music and the second biggest toy seller behind eToys. Amazon.com now has a profit roadmap (sort of) and analysts will gush about the e-tailer. In a February 1 research note, Blodget gushed about Living...
[February 3, 2000, 11:45]
The Day Ahead: Profits Are Amazon's Only Defence Against Critics
News If you believe, Amazon is an e-tailer, you don't pay attention to little things such as logistics, inventory and other back-end issues -- yet. What this means is that Suria looks at Amazon as a retailer, not an e-tailer.
[June 26, 2000, 11:55]
The Day Ahead: Mulling Amazon's Sales, VerticalNet Questions
News Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto cut the e-tailer from "market performer" to "trading buy". It would be perfectly reasonable to cut the e-tailer some slack because the economy is slowing, but investors may not go for it.
[January 9, 2001, 13:27]
The Day Ahead: Will Amazon Hit Its Sales Targets?
News The e-tailer, which was banking on a seasonally strong holiday season, can't afford any slowdown. The alarming thing for Amazon investors is that eToys isn't some second-rate e-tailer -- it is consistently among the best rated and a leader in its...
[December 18, 2000, 13:37]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com Homecomings
News To refresh your memory, Delia's, a questionable catalogue retailer, brought iTurf, a questionable generation Y e-tailer, public in April 1999. The e-tailer had the right buzz at the right time, priced its IPO at $22 and raised a lot of cash.
[August 25, 2000, 11:32]
Amazon Posts First Profit
News Despite the company's upbeat quarter, growth for certain of Amazon's units may raise a few eyebrows among analysts who have been complaining that the e-tailer has sacrificed growth for profits. Excluding those expenses, the e-tailer's pro forma...
[January 22, 2002, 13:17]
Wall Street Smitten With Online Travel
News The e-tailer had ambitious plans to expand into every market imaginable--auto sales, insurance, mortgages and groceries, to name a few. Priceline shares surged 36 percent Tuesday after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to "market outperform" from...
[May 2, 2001, 13:24]
E-commerce Booms In UK
News Lingerie and hosiery e-tailer Figleaves is confident of success. Over £1bn was spent by UK online shoppers last month, as Britain gets ready for its biggest ever e-Christmas. According to figures released on Friday by the Interactive Media in...
[December 13, 2002, 16:45]
