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News Burst: Internet Christmas sales to skyrocket
News US Internet gift sales may hit $15bn (£9.3bn) this Christmas season, according to a report from accountants Ernst & Young. The group estimates sales will be between $12bn and $15bn, based on a survey of 1,200 US consumers.
[November 10, 1999, 10:05]
Probably the Best Internet Sales in the World!
White Papers Gaining a broader knowledge and competency base via Internet sales came in second, since this will provide the company with an entirely new set of ground rules on how best to act in “the new economy”.
[May 15, 2008, 9:40]
Appleton Coated Provides Remote Sales Force High Speed Internet Connectivity Along With Secure Transfer of Confidential Company Data Using D-Link Broadband VPN Routers
White Papers Some representatives were using DSL to connect remotely to share important sales information with the company. The company promptly implemented a plan for replacing each of the outside sales representative's VPN connections with D-Link DI-804HV...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Dell claims rise in Internet sales - sort of
News However, Dell admitted that only 22 percent of sales are "pure" Internet transactions with the other sales were initiated by visits to the Dell Web site being followed up by conventional telephone purchases.
[August 18, 1999, 11:53]
Billboard counts down Web music
News Billboard magazine is charting new territory this week, adding data for the first time on sales of Internet music downloads to its lists of top-selling albums. Nielsen SoundScan will report digital downloads under the "nontraditional" category...
[July 3, 2003, 10:02]
E-tailers looking at a bumper Christmas
News The Office of National Statistics has calculated 2003's Internet sales have more than doubled on the previous year's figure of £19bn. Other non-Internet electronic sales - made over email, fax or automated telephone entry, rose slightly -- from...
[November 22, 2004, 15:15]
HP Streamlines Online Storefronts by Using Service-Oriented Architecture
White Papers To streamline its Internet-based sales outlets, HP implemented a new service-oriented architecture by using Microsoft software, including Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Windows Server 2003.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
The future's rosy for Big Blue
News The IBM chairman said a quarter of the company's revenue -- or about $20 bn (£1.2 bn) -- is related to "e-business," including sales over the Internet, computer consulting and installation and software products that manage data and transactions.
[May 13, 1999, 16:18]
Music downloads good for CD sales - report
News Contrary to previous research, downloading digital music over the Internet actually increases the sales of CDs according to the latest survey from the Digital Media Association, says The Wall Street Journal Thursday.
[June 15, 2000, 14:33]
CMGI tops 3Q estimates
News Company officials said sales for its Internet business segment increased 1,600 percent compared with the third quarter of last year. CMGI topped analysts' estimates in its third quarter Tuesday, posting a loss of $428m (£284.7m), or $1.53 a share...
[June 14, 2000, 10:00]
US Report: Dell plans to do 100% of its business online
News The computer maker has up to $4m (£2.4m) per day in online sales, but the key to growth for the company is to extend Internet sales toward suppliers, Dell said, and turn all physical sales relationships to electronic ones.
[April 29, 1998, 6:00]
Dell woos Internet startups
News Dell, in a belated bid to woo Internet start-ups, has quietly formed a sales and marketing division to target Internet-service providers and companies that host Web sites. Webster, a former Adobe Systems regional sales vice president, as vice...
[February 7, 2000, 15:31]
DoubleClick Uses AppExchange Platform to Create One-Stop CRM Solution
White Papers DoubleClick, the New York-based global Internet marketing technology company, knows marketing and sales. DoubleClick needed a solution its increasingly global staff could access anytime, from anywhere, that could easily scale to grow with the...
[July 12, 2006, 0:00]
VeriSign, IBM strike security pact
News VeriSign on Tuesday will announce a broad security alliance with IBM that includes joint sales, marketing and technology efforts that could widen the Internet security company's access to large corporate customers.
[January 22, 2002, 11:15]
Online shopping still causes security fears
News Although internet sales have been increasing for years, online sales comprised just three percent of all retail sales, and only six percent of businesses were selling online to consumers, according to the latest OFT data from 2005.
[June 20, 2007, 9:35]
Gateway turning off Net appliances?
News As part of its renewed focus on maximising PC sales, Gateway is pulling back from the nascent market for Internet appliances. He added that many people wrongly interpreted reports, that the broad category of Internet devices would out-ship PCs by...
[March 6, 2001, 15:04]
Napster blamed for plunge in singles sales
News The music industry said yesterday that Internet music-swapping site Napster is responsible for a substantial decline in sales of CD singles. According to RIAA president Hilary Rosen "Napster hurt record sales", especially singles sales.
[February 26, 2001, 14:33]
PC sales jump thanks to 'Free PC' trend
News Unit sales for June leapt 31.8 percent over a year ago. In total, sub-$1,000 PCs accounted for a stunning 70.9 percent of all Windows computers sold, with sales of sub-$600 computers jumping eight-fold to account for 26 percent of all Windows-based...
[July 23, 1999, 8:19]
Online ad market shows signs of recovery
News Internet ad sales hit $1.79bn in the third quarter, down 4.1 percent from the second quarter. Encouraging signs include immediate hopes of better-than-expected ad sales at bellwether Yahoo! Through such partnerships, MSN marketing and ad sales are...
[December 11, 2001, 16:45]
Christmas breathes life into Dell's high-end sales
News He added that modems and the Internet have, predictably, driven sales to a large degree. "Sales in 166MHz and 200MHz Pentium multimedia machines with 16Mb RAM, 2Gb drives, and eight-speed CD-ROM drives, which sell for around £1,200 to £1,400 are...
[December 6, 1996, 8:57]
