eWEEK EDITORS

Cliff Sharples dot-com story doesnt exactly have a happy ending. After all, Garden.com, the online gardening retailer he founded in 1995 with wife, Lisa, and partner, Jamie ONeill, closed Dec. 1, a victim of the dot-com downturn that left many once-promising businesses without the capital needed to continue operations. But, at a time when numerous […]

When it comes to talking about internet retailing, Donna Iucolanos got some mouth on her. During the heyday of the business-to-consumer e-tailers, Iucolano spent six years in the trenches, transforming 1-800-Flowers from a telemarketing floral company into a leading online supplier of flowers, plants and gifts. As she worked her way up from marketing coordinator […]

Yet More Ads to Bombard Surfers Web surfers already tired of ads appearing everywhere online had better brace for an even bigger marketing tsunami. By 2005, the average online user will receive 950 marketing messages a day, compared with a daily hit of 610 this year, according to data released by Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., […]

You have to be Imelda Marcos to supply all the shoes dropping in this market. Last week, Intel and Yahoo—two firms that actually make money—announced that they would miss first-quarter revenue projections by a long shot, and Yahoos CEO resigned. Loudcloud lowered the offering price on its much-awaited IPO. And within our own index, several […]

When Allan Frank, Ted Fernandez and David Dungan left their Big 5 accounting firm in 1996 to start an e-business services firm, their focus wasnt on building artsy Web pages. Instead, the three high-level executives were intent on building a business. Now, an IPO, several acquisitions and 1,600 employees later, Answerthink is betting on its […]

For any e-business, an important part of getting a handle on when and where to collect and remit sales taxes on online sales is determining the states in which it has nexus, or a physical presence. Answering that question can be tricky, though. For one thing, each state defines nexus differently. For another, as e-business […]

Rebirth for BabyCenter Johnson & Johnson took advantage of a fire sale at struggling Internet retailer eToys to acquire parenting-resource Web site BabyCenter for about $10 million. Johnson & Johnson plans to roll BabyCenter into its consumer e-commerce initiatives, but will keep the operation in San Francisco. EToys is in the process of shutting down […]

Everyone hates slow load times, from users to Internet service providers. But few people can actually do something to keep things from slowing down, and even fewer can say they have helped to speed things up. Two of those who can are the engineers at Cisco Systems who designed the fastest routers on the planet. […]

Few people take commercial internet business history closer to heart than Sean Donelan. A modern-day scholar, Donelan combines his day job of design engineer at Equinix — which hosts Internet business exchanges — with efforts to document various business issues affecting interconnectivity between carriers. Peering, fiber-optic cable cuts, data center security, cracking, power outages — […]

Mary Evslin is a different kind of evangelist. Her pulpit is on the Internet, her congregation is an esteemed list of voice carriers. Regardless, thousands of loyal followers praise her name as the prophet of Internet telephony, instilling faith in the technology around the world. Its a little more credit than Evslin is used to. […]

The most appropriate response the press could have given to the Chicken Little-esque comments made by Qualcomm Chairman and Chief Executive Irwin Jacobs about when wideband Code Division Multiple Access networks will roll out? In a word: Puleeeze! In an interview with The Financial Times, and later during the companys annual meeting, Jacobs warned that […]

The Bank of Montreal may be more than 180 years old, but when it comes to rolling out wireless Internet applications, this venerable organization is as leading-edge as it gets. BMO committed early to the wireless Internet, and now stands to emerge as a major provider of mobile financial applications to the entire banking sector. […]