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Trading Standards condemns Internet shopping
News Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday. Jenny McCruden, lead officer for National Consumer Week at the Trading Standards Institute argued "the...
[October 12, 2000, 12:50]
MTC Guides Internet Trading Hub to Increased Performance and Flexibility
White Papers Global Risk Exchange is a secure Internet trading hub for the purchase of high-end commercial insurance. Ultimately, the business will extend to an international trading platform for all risk transfer products.
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
News Burst: Trading Standards condemns Internet shopping
News Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday. Officers from the Institute carried out a survey of e-commerce sites, and found that 38 per cent of orders...
[October 12, 2000, 8:11]
Halifax Net share dealing system breached
News The Halifax admitted Monday that a flaw in its online security allowed a customer to gain unauthorised access to its Internet trading accounts on Friday morning. The fault has been eliminated and we've checked our servers and found that no illegal...
[November 29, 1999, 16:30]
SLA Trading Strategies
White Papers This paper discusses the concept of SLA trading, its position in SLA framework and its strategic meaning for Internet economy and providers. SLA trading can be seen in the long term a key factor towards a market and business driven multiservice...
[July 29, 2004, 3:00]
Trading Standards orders dot-com shake-up
News The Institute of Trading Standards has warned UK Internet businesses to clean up their customer service reputation and online security record or see Britain's Internet industry fall behind competitors from abroad.
[October 23, 2000, 9:18]
Another flat-rate ISP bites the dust
News Flat-rate Internet service provider Connect25 has ceased trading, leaving hundreds of angry customers in the lurch. The Leicestershire-based ISP, which offered unmetered Internet access for £12.95 a month, ceased trading on Wednesday and now faces...
[April 19, 2001, 15:09]
Online shopping still causes security fears
News In its latest market report into internet shopping, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said shoppers still have significant worries about privacy and security, which are limiting the growth of the sector — despite its obvious successes.
[June 20, 2007, 9:35]
New trading service revives gambling debate
News A number of Internet trading facilities already exist in the UK. Marathe admits that the growth of Internet trading in the UK is likely to bring with it significant changes in investment habits. A new online trading service launched in the UK today...
[September 1, 1999, 12:56]
Tech shares end summer doldrums
News Despite the sell-off in the Internet sector since March, European ISPs are still trading at a median of around 4,700 euros per subscriber. Shares in technology around Europe picked themselves off the floor Thursday as investors returned from the...
[September 4, 2000, 8:57]
lastminute.com shares continue to slide
News The Internet startup, which has been the focus of much media and investor interest, began unofficial trading on 14 March at 380p, the top end of its range. The Dutch Internet service provider World Online was also trading below its offer price of...
[March 21, 2000, 10:02]
OFT plans crackdown on PC makers and ISPs
News The Office of Fair Trading is to begin investigating home PC suppliers and Internet service providers to explore whether the needs of customers are being properly served. If a study reveals the need for further investigation or action under any of...
[October 4, 2001, 13:55]
Britain leads the way with e-commerce
News In the last year, the number of businesses trading online in the UK has increased by 20 percent, growing from 450,000 to 540,000. But this figure must increase by half a million within the next year to meet the government target of having one...
[October 12, 2001, 10:44]
Microsoft, Ericsson plan wireless Internet venture
News Ericsson announced a partnership to develop wireless Internet applications, sending shares of Ericsson sharply higher in Stockholm trading. Shares of British handheld-computer maker Psion (quote: PON), whose software is at core of the Symbian...
[December 8, 1999, 15:13]
Government e-commerce figures 'massaged'
News A significant factor that could be preventing smaller businesses from embracing the Internet for trading purposes is their speed of connectivity. But research company Forrester points out that the accuracy of the ONS figures is distorted by the...
[September 13, 2001, 8:30]
Forrester: Online business to explode
News Internet trading initiatives generally start small, as early adopters use their industry clout to pull suppliers and customers online. Once these companies realise the efficiencies of Internet trading, they will persuade their business partners to...
[December 18, 1998, 16:39]
World Online raided in IPO insider trading probe
News Dutch-based Internet service provider (ISP) World Online said Monday its headquarters had been raided in connection with allegations of insider trading around the company's disastrous initial public offering in March.
[November 14, 2000, 10:03]
OFT gains powers to seize spammers' PCs
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will gain the power to seize computer equipment it suspects is being used to perpetrate cross-border internet scams, the OFT has told ZDNet UK. We could set up a dedicated unit [to investigate electronic scams], or...
[February 28, 2007, 15:13]
File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs
News Even as they avoid facing media-industry lawyers, these ISPs risk losing their customers to competing Internet access companies that may be less aggressive about curtailing the use of file-trading software.
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
lastminute.com flotation wows market
News Analysts say the European Internet market bubble will probably burst at some point; in the US 75 percent of Internet stocks are trading below their initial public offering prices. Shares aren't yet trading on the London stock exchange, but are...
[March 14, 2000, 16:53]
