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Salt Lake City, Utah-based Inteliant Corporation, a division of SOS Staffing Services (Nasdaq: SOSS) and e-business applications provider BroadVisionInc., announced a comprehensive alliance Wednesday that will pool the companies' products and services The firms will focus on t...

Last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers launched its own B2B purchasing consortium called e.conomy, which offers member businesses discounts on indirect goods and services including office supplies, temporary staffing services and company travel. With over $17 billion in revenues l...

Brown added, "Old habits die hard. For instance, what's to persuade someone to order a pizza using a mobile application, rather than just picking up the phone? There would have to be significant value-add to change habits; perhaps discounts, an up-to-date menu on screen, easy selection of pizzas and toppings with a few key presses, and no busy signals or overworked counter staff." ...

In addition to lobbying House and Senate staffers, Disney executives have requested intervention by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and have apparently been sending out e-mails that are critical of AOL. ...

According to Forrester Research, firms will increasingly use the Internet to staff the Internet, as well as to find qualified employees for their offline ventures. By 2005, Forrester predicts that $4 billion will be spent to advertise jobs online, while revenues from online a...

The combined company plans to add staff in order to build its presence in new Internet service areas. Network Solutions (NSI) will become a subsidiary of VeriSign, and NSI CEO Jim Rutt will retain his position, reporting to VeriSign President and CEO Stratton Sclavos. ...

In addition, the FTC staff will assess Web sites' compliance with fair information practices by analyzing the sites' stated policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information that is gathered from consumers online. ...

Asiacontent.com integrates content, advertising and e-commerce and has launched 15 Web sites since its inception last May. The company has a staff of 325 in eight markets across Asia. It has joint venture agreements with CNET, controversial ad server DoubleClick and others. W...

Warner Bros. has introduced a new fashion-oriented Web site, The Fashion Maven, which supposedly allows consumers to purchase articles of clothing online that were recently worn by one of the entertainment giant's television or movie characters ...

Another problem for online car dealers is the heavy costs associated with implementing the national infrastructure, staff and real estate needed to handle used car procurement, refurbishment and delivery. Forrester asserts that such overhead will keep iMotors in the red for the foreseeable future.

On the marketing side, e-Steel's sales and marketing staff will get help from USX's relationships in the commercial steel industry. On the system integration side, USX software experts will work with e-Steel Exchange buyers and sellers to help them connect their back end business systems to the Exchange to improve supply chain operations.

Neither Clinton nor the group of Internet and e-commerce company executives, consumer advocacy groups, security experts, former hackers, and academics support regulating the Internet as a method of thwarting future hacker attacks, White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said. "The solutions that we talked about did not involve greater government regulation, or really even greater governmental power. The point was made that we do not need to reduce privacy as we enhance security in the network. Privacy and security go together, in fact." ...

According to CDT Staff Counsel Deirdre Mulligan, "You may have already been double-crossed by DoubleClick or you may be next in line. In either case, if you care about your privacy and want to surf the Web without your every move being recorded in a giant database connected to your name, its time to opt-out of DoubleClick's profiling." ...

During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple Computer launched the Macintosh with an ad that many advertising aficionados consider to be the best ever created. Since that time, daring companies have viewed the Super Bowl as the perfect venue at which to launch an "impact" product or service ...

Most of these sites, according to the report, "lack full-time e-tail leaders and the staff necessary to achieve substantial success over the Internet. In fact, 50 percent of the respondents said they had no clear e-Business leader at their companies." The data was delivered a...

Q What do you feel has helped make your site successful? A An important part of Reel.com's success is due to the valuable tools we provide movie lovers to help them as they decide which movies they'll enjoy watching, renting, or buying. These tools are created by our staff of more than 40 editors who are movie experts and specialists in particular movie genres. These editors analyze movies in Reel.com's inventory, write 30-word "Reel Snapshots" explaining what kind of moviegoer will like the film and why, create a "Movie at a Glance" ratings profile, and "Movie Matches" that match up similar movies.

This year, Commerce staffers report that they will work with trade associations to further educate Internet businesses and raise more support for better privacy protection. In addition, they say that online profiling will get more attention, as the Department will encourage a self-regulation model similar to its approach to privacy protection.

MSNBC Staff Easily Gained Access to 25,000 Card Numbers An MSNBC reporter contacted Prokhorov and used his simple instructions to view the databases of 20 Web sites that had no password protection. The reporter was able to view customer credit card numbers, billing addresses ...

The staff communicates with Internet customers via e-mail or telephone, based on customer preference. Specialists respond within 24 hours, and there is no charge for the service. "Shopping for a new vehicle online can be isolating and stressful," said Harlan Lassen, Internet ...

Customer service portal Feedback Direct joined the ratings game this week by launching the Feedback 50 online companies with the best customer service operations ...