1999 E-Commerce Recap
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E-PRODUCTS NEWS ToC
- Letters to Santa are no longer necessary
- Digital
payments come of age
- C/Base delivers pre-paid personal spending
technology
- Four airlines plan joint travel site
- Citibank
launches on-line shopping tool for consumers
- Testing Furniture.com
Does the cyber service revolution have legs?
- Do luxury retailers
get e-commerce?
- Commerce Exchange Gets 'Xpert' Upgrades
- The
web way or the highway
- Blinded by the e-commerce gold rush
- Hotelguide.com
launches largest hotel directory on the internet
- icollector plc
launches highest insurance coverage for e-commerce transactions
- Amazon
pops into consumer reviews with zBubbles
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Letters
to Santa are no longer necessary
Wishlist.com, Wishclick.com and OhIWish.com
have joined other e-commerce start-ups in the cluttered field of on-line gift
registries, where people post lists of their preferred gifts. Digital
payments come of age
It will take some time before digital currency takes
over and we become a "cash-less" society, but the groundwork is already
being laid and the technology has matured enough for widespread use. C/Base
delivers pre-paid personal spending technology
E-commerce technology company
C/Base said it has developed a new Web technology that "combines the convenience
and manageability of credit cards with the freedom and privacy of cash."
Four
airlines plan joint travel site
Four of the five largest U.S. airlines
are banding together to start a multi-airline travel Web site, in the face of
growing competition from Internet companies. Citibank
launches on-line shopping tool for consumers
Financial giant Citibank
launched ClickCredit, a separate line of credit for consumers designed to be used
exclusively for on-line purchases. Testing
Furniture.com Does the cyber service revolution have legs?
Business Week
went to Furniture.com to see if e-merchants are ready for the holiday onslaught.
Unfortunately, fancy new software isn't enough to solve the Web's customer service
problems. Do
luxury retailers get e-commerce?
According to a new report by Forrester
Research, Inc., luxury brick-and-mortar retailers such as Neiman Marcus are approaching
e-commerce with a bargain basement mentality. Commerce
exchange uets 'Xpert' upgrades
The Sun-Netscape Alliance has upgraded
two of its Commerce Exchange family of applications, ECXpert and Trading Xpert,
for more automated, business-to-business transactions. The
web way or the highway
General Motors Corp. said Friday that it would
move all of its US$87 billion in annual purchases to its new e-commerce Web site
within about two years and would pressure its suppliers to follow suit. Blinded
by the e-commerce gold rush
It seems that the Internet Gold Rush has fostered
the same kind of hysteria that its 19th century counterpart did. But those who
think that the Internet has leveled the playing field so that anyone with a modem,
an idea and a Web site can just show up and compete with the corporate giants
is sorely mistaken. Hotelguide.com
launches largest hotel directory on the Internet
Hotelguide.com has launched
a site that is now the largest hotel directory on the Internet, with over 60,000
hotels in 200 countries. The site offers on-line booking and detailed free information
on a wide selection of hotels, including maps on how to get there and colorful
photos. icollector
plc launches highest insurance coverage for e-commerce transactions
icollector
plc, launches the highest insurance cover for e-commerce transactions on the Internet,
designed specifically to protect customers of the icollector site. iGuarantee
covers items purchased through icollector for up to $50,000 with an additional
$500 for shipping costs. Amazon pops into consumer reviews with zBubbles
Amazon
has quietly entered the red-hot arena of consumer product reviews with a new software
application called zBubbles.
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