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E-commerce
the exchange of goods, information products, or services via an electronic medium such as the Internet. Originally limited to buying and selling, it has evolved to include such functions as...
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Wendy Borow-Johnson: Niche Networks
Wendy Borow-Johnson is a leader in Internet marketing and advertising and President of BOOMj, a social networking and e-commerce site that caters to adults over 40. Ms. Borow-Johnson talks about BOOMj's multi-faced structure and different ways she works to broaden the site's audience base.
Tags: E-business, Wendy Borow-Johnson, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, BOOMj, e-commerce, social networking
Videos 2008-03-20
Scott Painter: Performance-based Marketing
Scott Painter is former CEO of CarsDirect.com and founder and CEO of Zag, a technology and services platform that allows consumers to complete the entire auto-buying transaction online. Painter talks about his passion for e-commerce and why it's important to transform the way vehicles are sold on the Internet.
Tags: Performance Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing Research, e-commerce, online transaction, automotive, carsdirect.com, Marketing, Zag, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Performance, Scott Painter, Internet, Web Technology
Videos 2008-03-08
Sandeep Walia: Customizing eCommerce
Sandeep Walia is the founder of Ignify, a leading provider of e-commerce solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Recently, Entrepreneur Magazine named Ignify one of the fastest growing companies in the US. Here, Walia details how Ignify serves customers such as Microsoft and Black & Decker.
Tags: E-business, Web Technology, internet business, business finance, accounting, E-business/E-Commerce, Sandeep Walia, e-commerce, Internet, Ignify
Videos 2008-03-08
Fashion Playtes Raises $1.5 Million For Tween Fashion Site
Fashion Playtes has raised $1.5 million in a first round led by New Atlantic Ventures and LaunchCapital. The site—which hasn't launched publicly yet—will let young girls design clothes online and then purchase them. It's expected to open this fall. There's been quite a lot of venture activity in the...
Tags: Site, E-Commerce, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-14
DivX Acquires Streaming Video Tech Firm AnySource For $7.5 Million, Plus Earnout
Digital video tech firm DivX has acquired IPTV-enabler AnySource Media for a deal that’s potentially worth $15 million. DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) will pay $7.5 million in cash up front, with additional cash payments totaling $7.5 million over the next three years, if the company hits specific technical, revenue and...
Tags: DivXNetworks, Streaming Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-01
TheFind Buys Fashion Discount Hunter iStorez
Shopping search and recommendation site TheFind is doing some buying of its own: It’s acquiring iStorez, a site that culls retailers’ coupons and deals from e-newsletters. The terms weren’t disclosed. TheFind claims to have sent over 13 million uniques to 100,000 online stores last month, while iStorez features deals...
Tags: Retail Company, Site, TheFind, Retail, E-Commerce, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-02
Condé Nast's Style.com Matches Advertising To E-Commerce
Right in time for this month’s Fashion Week—and the usual companion traffic spike, Condé Nast’s is unveiling its latest e-commerce play: Shop The Look at Style.com, aka the web home of Vogue. Rachel Wintner, Style.com’s associate publisher, told paidContent the e-commerce service is a direct way to prove its...
Tags: Advertisement, E-business, Condé Nast, Style.com, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Women-Centric Content, Magazines, Companies, Conde Nast, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-02
Will The 'Twilight' Franchise Be A Virtual Best-Seller, Too?
The Twilight franchise is epitome of a pop culture blockbuster: The first novel, Twilight, was the biggest-selling book of 2008, the movie grossed $383 million at box offices worldwide, and teens in North America have gobbled up the DVDs to the tune of $162 million in sales thus...
Tags: Virtual World, Franchise, Twilight, Habbo, Pan, Branding, Marketing, Advertising, E-Commerce, Entertainment, Gaming, Movies, Social Media, Virtual Worlds, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-02
Wine Marketplace Vinfolio Raises $4.5 Million In First Round
Wine marketplace and community site Vinfolio has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding led by Panorama Capital. Via the company’s marketplace, which launched in July, collectors can buy and sell fine wines Vinfolio takes a cut. Vinfolio also offers VinCellar, an online platform wine collectors can...
Tags: Wine, E-Commerce, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-03
The Economist Tests Phone-Based Delivery Service
Add this to the list of paid content scenarios currently being tested by news publishers ... The Economist has rolled out an cellphone-based delivery service in New York, per AdAge. Each Thursday, the financial publication will send out a text detailing the topics for the coming week’s issue, complete...
Tags: Phone, Economist, Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-03
Live Gamer Raises $2.8 Million In Funding
In-games commerce firm Live Gamer has raised $2.8 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company is calling it “side-car” financing that came in prior to its acquisition of Twofish; the money came from a mix of previous backers and new investors—though Live Gamer declined to give...
Tags: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Entertainment, Gaming, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-27
AT&T Gets Readies Its 3G Network For Sony eBooks Device
The big news Sony’s press conference for its new line of eReaders was the deal with AT&T (NYSE: T) to provide its 3G wireless connection to the Daily Edition, Sony’s first wireless reader. Neither Sony (NYSE: SNE) nor AT&T would say what the revenue split is. But it’s probably...
Tags: Revenue, Sony Corp., Network, 3G Network, AT&T Corp., E-book, Sprint Communications, Wireless, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Amazon.com, Kindle, AT&T, Sony, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-25
Monster.com Founder Sees A Healthy Future In Death Listings
This is a tough time for jobs sites. And, for that matter, the economy has constrained advertisers from spending on the health content market. So with that in mind, last fall, Monster.com founder and former CEO Jeff Taylor created a spinoff from his healthy living site Eons.com aimed at...
Tags: Monster, Boston.com, Site, Tributes.com, Eons, Advertising, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Social Media, Companies, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-24
myYearbook Turns A Profit By Getting Users To Pay
While pure-play media sites try to figure out how to offset ad sales declines by charging readers, it seems that social networks—surprisingly—are making faster progress at getting their users to pay up. The latest example is teen-friendly social net myYearbook, which says it's now profitable because of a subscription...
Tags: Revenue, Payment, myYearbook, Operational Accounting, Games, Finance, Personal Technology, E-Commerce, Money, Social Media, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-17
Online Photo Service LifePics Raises $1.98 Million
Online b-to-b photo service LifePics has raised $1.98 million in a round of funding. The nine-year-old company offers a host of online imaging solutions, so that professional photographers and retail photo businesses can accept orders and offer other services to customers online. The company says it counts more than...
Tags: Round, Online Photo, Photograph, E-Commerce, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-17
Jambool Raises $5 Million For Virtual Currency Platform
Virtual currency startup Jambool has raised $5 million in a round of funding—the latest sign that VCs are betting on big growth in the virtual goods business. Jambool’s ‘Social Gold’ platform lets developers create their own white-labeled virtual currency systems. It powers virtual payment systems within big name apps...
Tags: Payment, Online Game, Jambool, Games, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Finance, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-18
ShowClix Raises A First Round For Online Ticketing
ShowClix, a two-year-old startup trying to challenge Ticketmaster’s dominance of the online ticketing industry, has raised a first round of funding from Pittsburgh Equity Partners. ShowClix is not disclosing how much it raised, but an SEC filing indicates the company brought in $570,000 of an $850,000 round. In the...
Tags: Round, Ticketmaster Corp., ShowClix, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Entertainment, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-20
Journalism Online Adds Non-Profit Support With IWPR As Launch Partner
Journalism Online hasn’t moved beyond letters of intent on the commercial side but the Steve Brill-Gordon Crovitz-Leo Hindery Jr. enterprise is adding a non-profit service that already has a launch partner: the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR. The non-profit service announced this morning (these are intentional...
Tags: Affiliate, Publisher, Productivity, Benefits, Human Resources, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-20
MLB.TV 99 Cent Pay Per View On The Way
If all the pieces fall in to place, MLB.TV will start offering pay per view games on iPhone at 99 cents a pop by the end of August subject to the usual local blackout rules. Bloomberg’s Rich Jaroslovsky included that tidbit in the latest takeout on digital flag bearer...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Micropayment, Games, Smart Phones, Video On Demand (VoD), Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Entertainment, Sports, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-20
FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Profiling firm Trovus has been hired for the task, hoping to add to FT.com’s 600 corporate subscriptions.Trovus is monitoring the IP address of frequent readers to find...
Tags: IP, Sales Team, FT.com, B2B, Sales Strategy, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sales, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Pearson, Financial Times, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-08-20
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