ToC

• Despite the hype, B2B marketplaces struggle
• IBM to unveil component marketplace on Net
• Starwood, Zoho partner for online b-to-b
• Shakeout looms over B2B market
• Only Room for One Online Auto Exchange
• Clickin' for chickens
• iPlanet unveils Net marketplace tools
• IBM offers software for wireless marketplace
• Web Marketplaces Face Industry Goliaths
• Hughes Provides Prescription for Pharmacies
• ICG, IBM Create Intellectual Property Marketplace
• Intel Business MarketPlace Plays Matchmaker
• Agribusiness e-commerce seen gaining momentum
• E-bills Fire Up Exchanges
• The great B2B shootout
• Will the Net Create Auto Monopolies?
• Automakers wary of direct Net car sales
• Talkin' trash at Ground Zero
• MarthaStewart.com late on some Mother's Day orders
• Federated to Build Web Retailer-Supplier System
• Automakers Woo Suppliers to Online Exchange
• Toshiba Moves to Direct Sales
• How B2B Exchanges Threaten Old-Line Companies
• FreeMarkets Extends Electronic Marketplace
• Marriott, Hyatt Create Procurement Net

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Business-to-business digital marketplaces sound intriguing, even revolutionary -- on paper.  But in reality, the hundreds of recently announced online exchanges might be years from reaching their bold promise of leading industries into the Internet age.

USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000510/2246042s.htm> 

IBM will unveil an electronic marketplace for computer components later this month that will function similar to one announced today by a consortium that includes Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.

CNET
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1798034.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..1003-200-1798034> 

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide will buy its hotel supplies through Zoho Corp., a new online marketplace for the hospitality industry, the companies announced today.

Upside
<http://www.upside.com/News/392aa66a0.html> 

The vast majority of business-to-business virtual marketplaces will vanish within two years  as failures and consolidation sweep through the once high-flying sector.

CNET
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1948332.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni> 

While smaller exchanges may survive in the global automotive industry, there is ultimately room for only one large online supplier marketplace, DaimlerChrysler AG's North America president said on Tuesday.

Reuters
<http://news.excite.com/news/r/000502/13/net-autos> 

Poultryfirst.com hopes for more than just chicken feed with its electronic marketplace.

Red Herring
<http://www.redherring.com/industries/2000/0525/ind-poultryfirst052500.html> 

iPlanet today announced a bundle of software, servers and services to help companies build  their online marketplaces.

CNET
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1881155.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni> 

IBM unveiled software today that allows businesses to create online marketplaces that work with hand-held devices.

CNET
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1885816.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni> 

As big companies form coalitions, b-to-b Web marketplaces revamp battle plans and wonder how much to worry.

Industry Standard
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,15240,00.html?nl=dnh> 

Offering a free technology package that includes computers and satellites, Hughes Network  Systems and RxMarketplace.com hope to link nation's pharmacies, all without a phone line.

Internet News
<http://dc.internet.com/news/article/0,1934,2101_367681,00.html> 

Internet Capital Group and IBM Corp. Wednesday formed a new company that will create an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of intellectual property.

Internet News
<http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,2171,3_379091,00.html> 

Chip-making monolith Intel Corp. Tuesday unveiled its service provider Web collaboration tool dubbed the Intel Business MarketPlace.

Internet News
<http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0,2171,4_377661,00.html> 

Food and agribusiness sectors are lagging behind manufacturing in putting business online, but the move is expected to speed up in the next few years, a conference heard on Thursday.

Media Central
<http://www.mediacentral.com/channels//inetecomm/05_25_2000.reutr-story-L25541945.html> 

Electronic bills, long associated with consumer purchasing, are coming to an industrial trading exchange near you.

TechWeb
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000511S0012> 

Business-to-business infrastructure may not sound very glamorous, but the software industry's biggest providers are all furiously vying for a piece of the business.

ZDNet
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2570596%2C00.html> 

When General Motors Corp. warned its dealers against selling to "direct" auto brokers like CarsDirect.com, the company confirmed what many analysts have been predicting: e-commerce  is forcing a restructuring of the auto industry that is going to pit manufacturers against their own
 dealers.

E-Commerce Times
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/viewpoint2000/view-000523-1.shtml> 

New vehicles owned by dealers and marketed through the Internet represent a powerful combination -- except for one problem: Automakers insist that only dealers and retail customers -- not Internet sites -- may be parties to transactions.

Detroit Free Press
<http://www.freep.com/money/business/iwirh26_20000526.htm> 

Over the first two days of the business-to-business e-commerce confab, it seemed as if  every conference speaker saw it as his duty to one-up his predecessor in heaping on the negatives.

Upside
<http://www.upside.com/News/3920bbba0.html> 

The company acknowledged today that it failed to deliver some of the orders placed through its Marthasflowers unit in time for Mother's Day.

CNET
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1931302.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni> 

U.S. retailer Federated Department Stores Inc. and software maker Manhattan Associates said Monday they plan to build a real-time internet-based system to connect retailers and suppliers.

Reuters
<http://news.excite.com/news/r/000508/09/net-federated-system> 

Detroit's traditional Big Three automakers, trying to woo large suppliers to their new Internet trade exchange, have offered them a source of revenues from the venture rather than an equity stake, a top official said on Monday.

Reuters
<http://news.excite.com/news/r/000508/16/net-autos-exchange> 

Following the example of Dell and Compaq, Toshiba will sell PCs direct to consumers.

PC World
<http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0%2C1510%2C16624%2C00.html> 

Can you hear it? That's the sound of the bell tolling for old-line distributors, the companies that  buy stuff and resell it to other businesses. First they got whacked by B2B exchanges. Now another  brand of B2B exchange has come along with the next shovel full of dirt.

AnchorDesk
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0%2C10738%2C2560514%2C00.html> 

B2B online marketplace Free Markets Inc. Monday released a suite of Internet-based products for professional buyers and suppliers.

Internet News
<http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0%2C2171%2C4_376941%2C00.html> 

Two of the country's largest hotel chains will create a company to automate procurement needs.

TechWeb
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000502S0007>