Expanded E-Commerce Management (ECM) Deployment
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MOVERS & SHAKERS NEWS
ToC

• Online merchants seek to improve e-commerce

• Amazon.com Announces Layoffs

• Beyond.com hits hard times

• Barnesandnoble.com CEO closes chapter

• TheGlobe.com founders step aside as CEOs

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Online merchants seek to improve e-commerce
Electronic commerce executives said they want to make online shopping better than any experience in a physical store at a conference of Texas e-commerce companies.

• Dallas Morning News

• http://dallasnews.com/technology/17898_ECOM.html

Amazon.com Announces Layoffs
Amazon.com Inc. said yesterday that it will lay off 150 employees as part of a company-wide reorganization, just five days before it is expected to report further losses in its fourth quarter. The Internet's largest retailer wouldn't say why it's cutting staff. But a spokesman said the firings are not related to the losses. The layoffs will be spread across its divisions and hit mostly at its Seattle headquarters. The company has 7,500 employees, up from just over 2,000 a year ago.

• Washington Post

• http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/A45329-2000Jan28.html

Beyond.com hits hard times
CEO Mark Breier will step down and the company will lay off almost 20 percent of its work force.  Beyond.com will lay off around 20 percent of its work force in a restructuring move that will shift the company's focus away from consumer sales.

• ZDNet News

• http://www.zdnet.com/ebusiness/stories/0,5918,2423780,00.html 
  

Barnesandnoble.com CEO closes chapter
Jonathan Bulkeley, just a year on the job, is leaving the online bookseller to focus on investments. Barnesandnoble.com Inc., the online bookseller in heated competition with Amazon.com Inc., has lost its chief executive after just one year on the job.

• Reuters

• http://www.zdnet.com/ebusiness/stories/0,5918,2421788,00.html

TheGlobe.com founders step aside as CEOs
Online services firm Theglobe.com Inc. said on Thursday that joint CEOs Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman were stepping down as the leaders of the company they founded five years ago. Theglobe.com said it would initiate a search for a new chief executive with a view to taking over during the second quarter

• PCWeek

• http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2429128,00.html

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