WebSourced's parent company announced it is buying Proceed Interactive in a transaction characterized as a merger. Proceed Interactive, a brand of privately-held Meandaur, Inc. had $3.6 million in revenues in 2004 and has 35 employees....
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eCommerce Times reports on comments from the president of internet registration body ICANN indicating he thinks companies are being careless about their domains. He cited an example of huge software company that found itself denied its normal hundreds of thousands...
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Hitwise reports that shopping sites of various sorts accounted for an unprecedented share of internet usage between the beginning of November and Christmas. The 9.1 percent share of site usage proved 25.6 percent higher than last year's figures. Interestingly, the...
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CrossMedia reported that the proportion of people buying things in real-world stores who first went online to consult e-commerce sites rose 43 percent this holiday shopping season, according to an Internet Retailer account. It found that 14.7 million shoppers in...
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Internetnews.com reports that Dell and Gateway proved the major e-commerce firms with the most available and fastest websites over the holidays. Amazon.com turned out to be the worst of the top sites, its 98.43 percent homepage delivery success rate dragging...
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Internet Retailer points to the case study of Proflowers.com pushing ordering technology all the way back to the flower farm to shorten deliveries from the one-week average from ground to buyer to a period of only three days. Already a...
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SearchEngineGuide points to a SearchEngineJournal article that looks at WebTrend's new report judging the search engine optimization efforts of major retailers. It found that the four retailers examined - Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and Amazon.com - were twice as visible in...
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