By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 18--Like the classic fairy tale about the emperor who doesn't wear any clothes, the Internet boom was built on imagination and hype. During the peak of the Internet frenzy,...
To Dr. Oscar H. Gandy Jr., putting computers and Internet access into the hands of disadvantaged minority and poor Americans falls short of addressing what he defines as one barely recognized version of the digital divide in the United States. Gandy, the Herbert I. Schiller professor in the Annenberg School...
Business Editors, Internet/On-Line Writers NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--January 17, 2001 Kozmo.com and The New York Times announced today an agreement to provide delivery of The New York Times during a four-week trial to homes and offices of Kozmo customers in nine cities nationwide. Kozmo customers will be able to...
Food & Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 16, 2000 Kozmo.com announced today a marketing and distribution agreement with Zagat Survey, the premier provider of consumer survey-based dining, lodging and leisure information. Beginning in October and over the next several months, Kozmo customers in six cities will receive...
Despite high-profile marketing alliances with bricks-and-mortar chain Starbucks and Internet stalwart Amazaon.com, Kozmo.com has become the latest e-tailer to stumble in the race for market share, laying off 24 employees and battling reports that i Despite high-profile marketing alliances with bricks-and-mortar chain Starbucks...
May 1--Note the time and put the body on ice. The "Sell-a-Dollar's-Worth-of-Merchandise-for-Fifty-Cents-and-Make-It-Up-On-Volume.com" business model is dead. Which makes this a pretty unfortunate time for Kozmo.com, the New York-based urban delivery service, to be going public. You've probably heard the raves about Kozmo,...
May 1--Note the time and put the body on ice. The "Sell-a-Dollar's-Worth-of-Merchandise-for-Fifty-Cents-and-Make-It-Up-On-Volume.com" business model is dead. Which makes this a pretty unfortunate time for Kozmo.com, the New York-based urban delivery service, to be going public. You've probably heard the raves about Kozmo,...
Apr. 14--Kozmo.com, the online service that promises delivery of convenience foods and products, became the target Thursday of a civil rights lawsuit that claimed its service area excluded many predominantly black neighborhoods in Washington. In what its lawyers called the "nation's first civil ...
* Starbucks Crop., Seattle, has formed a pact with Kozmo.com, a New York-based Internet home-delivery company, which will enable Kozmo to gain presence in the coffee shops, in return for payments of $150 million over the next five years. Kozmo provides videos, snacks and other items...
* Starbucks Crop., Seattle, has formed a pact with Kozmo.com, a New York-based Internet home-delivery company, which will enable Kozmo to gain presence in the coffee shops, in return for payments of $150 million over the next five years. Kozmo provides videos, snacks and other items...
When kozmo.com opened its doors in 1997, offering free delivery of low-cost items like a video and a bag of chips in under an hour, city dwellers thought it was too good to be true. It was. The Manhattan-based service has burned through $290 millio...
* E-tailer Kozmo, which built its business on quick delivery of specialty and household items including rental and sell-through VHS and DVD, last week shut its operations and moved to liquidate its assets. The service operated in Atlanta; Boston; C * E-tailer Kozmo, which...
Paying $20 to deliver an $8 purchase is crazy, especially when delivery takes several days. That was the inspiration behind Kozmo.com. The Internet purveyor of food, videos, music CDs, electronics, and more offers free one-hour or same-day delivery Paying $20 to deliver an $8...
From the very beginning, supply chain management was to be a core competency of Kozmo. The promising dot-com would deliver your order--everything from the latest video to electronics equipment--in less than an hour. The technology was superior, the From the very beginning, supply chain...
Last March, Joseph Park got the kind of phone call most entrepreneurs only dream about. A hedge fund run by two former Goldman Sachs & Co. money managers had called to express interest in investing in Mr. Park's on-line video store, Kozmo.com ...
For the past four months, I've been doing my dirty laundry on the Internet. Every week or so, I punch in an order at MyLackey.com, a local Seattle site. A "laundry lackey" shows up at my door the next day and hauls off my clothes. Two days...
Kozmo.com, which offers delivery of video rentals, sales and food within an hour in major cities, cut 60 jobs, or 4% of its 1,500-strong staff. The cuts came from ... Kozmo.com, which offers delivery of video rentals, sales and food within an hour in...
NEW YORK-Amazon.com announced that it will offer its customers a one-hour delivery option for books, CDs and toys through a deal inked last week with Kozmo.com. NEW YORK-Amazon.com announced that it will offer its customers a one-hour delivery option for books, CDs and...
Business-to-business infrastructure provider InPhonic reached an agreement with Kozmo.com to market Kozmo digital and Internet-ready WAP products. Under the agreement, Kozmo will be able to offer free phones to its customers through InPhonic. The p Business-to-business infrastructure provider InPhonic reached an agreement with...
