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• Study: U.S. Manufacturers Not B2B E-Commerce Ready

• Auction Sites on the Block?

• Tackling teen market proves difficult

• Insufficient computer security threatens doing business online

• E-Commerce Roadmap Needed

• Online Retailers Need More than Technology

• Beyond the E-Commerce Shakeout

• Report: Young Online Shoppers Outperform Adults

• How to Succeed in E-Tail? Just Get It Right

• Is E-Commerce Slowing?

• Software Patents Tangle the Web

• Insurance Can Ease Hacking Pain

• E-tailers' stocks sink from weight of retail burdens

• Lawyers Foresee Denial Of Service Suits

• Softbank's Son: 'Cannibalize!'

• Poll: Net privacy fears increase

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Study: U.S. Manufacturers Not B2B E-Commerce Ready

A nationwide poll of U.S. industrial firms shows that most are not engaging in extensive business-to-business

• E-Commerce Times

• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000223-6.shtml

Auction Sites on the Block?

With e-commerce growing exponentially and e-tailing sites mushrooming around the globe, the consumer is faced with an infinitely swelling array of choices. The result is a growing need for shopping assistance tools to help consumers navigate their way through the maze.

• ClickZ

• http://gt.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/wi/bm/bm.html?article=1265

Tackling teen market proves difficult

Dot-com companies trying to make money by catering to teenagers are facing some growing pains.

• CNET

• http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1548413.html

Insufficient computer security threatens doing business online

The emerging Internet economy has become a new frontier for criminals as well as a growing challenge for law enforcement.

• CNN

• http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/23/credit.card.thefts/index.html

E-Commerce Roadmap Needed

House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley, R-Va., has asked the Clinton Administration to develop a comprehensive e-commerce "roadmap" with regard to tech-trade issues and China's entrance into the WTO, saying failure to do so would severely limit the growth of US companies.

• Computer Currents

• http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/02/25/news3.html

Online Retailers Need More than Technology

A study by the Bristol Group found that encouraging customers to go online can lead to a decline in customer loyalty, referrals to friends and, over the long term, a decline in profits.

• CyberAtlas

• http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/retailing/article/0%2C1323%2C6061_304241%2C00.html

Beyond the E-Commerce Shakeout

Despite a well-publicized tripling of e-commerce spending last year, many e-tailers found themselves falling far short of the shopping season revenues needed to keep their virtual storefronts open.

• E-Commerce Times

• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/viewpoint2000/view-000218-1.shtml

Report: Young Online Shoppers Outperform Adults

Unlike older online consumers, Internet shoppers in the 16 to 22-year-old age group have not only developed sophisticated approaches to online shopping, they've also diversified their online purchases to include a wide variety of product categories.

• E-Commerce Times

• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000223-nb2.shtml

How to Succeed in E-Tail? Just Get It Right

A new study of online catalog merchants during the holiday-shopping season indicates that retail sites designed to offer ease of shopping, ease of ordering, ease of order tracking and superior customer service are the winners for both the short and long term.

• Internet News

• http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0%2C1087%2C4_298931%2C00.html

Is E-Commerce Slowing?

Shopping sites must offer a richer experience to lure back customers, study finds.

• PC World

• http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0%2C1510%2C15414%2C00.html

Software Patents Tangle the Web

A profusion of new software patents on Internet business methods puts our notions of intellectual property to the biggest test yet.

• Technology Review

• http://www.techreview.com/articles/ma00/shulman.htm

Insurance Can Ease Hacking Pain

As some of the Web's most heavily trafficked sites fell victim to denial-of-service attacks last week, at least one sector of the burgeoning e-commerce industry had reason to smile.

• ZDNet

• http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0%2C4164%2C2436984%2C00.html

E-tailers' stocks sink from weight of retail burdens

For more than a year, shares of e-tailers have had a premium that valued their growth prospects above actual earnings. In recent months, however, investors in high-flying Net merchants such as Amazon.com and Value America have begun to grapple with some traditional issues.

• CNET

• http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1538402.html

Lawyers Foresee Denial Of Service Suits

Attacks on some of the busiest Internet sites earlier in the week may have legal consequences that extend beyond possible criminal punishment of the perpetrators, and may expand the scope of how courts view the responsibilities of those who set up and install computers to conduct business on the Internet.

• TechWeb

• http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000211S0014

Softbank's Son: 'Cannibalize!'

One of the Internet's biggest investors tells the World Economic Forum the only way to go into e-commerce is to kill off the brick-and-mortar parent. 

• Wired News

• http://www.wired.com/news/business/0%2C1367%2C34017%2C00.html

Poll: Net privacy fears increase

Following Web attacks, half of Gallup Poll respondents believe their credit card information is at risk online.

• ZDNet

• http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2445454%2C00.html

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