General Electric Co. in Fairfield, Conn., has signed a letter of intent to become an investor in Fort Worth, Texas-based FreightWise Inc., the Internet freight transportation marketplace, created last October by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
Ron Shelby, a former senior technology executive at General Motors, has been tapped as the new head of XMLSolutions, a business-to-business software company.
Amazon.com and Toysrus.com - two of the big names of Internet-based retailing - have announced that they're teaming up to launch a new cobranded, online toy and video game store, as well as another Web site that will sell baby products.
According to the two companies, the toy and video game store is scheduled to be launched in the third quarter, with the baby products store due to follow in the first half of next year.
In a major corporate realignment, Computer Associates International (CA) last week announced that founder Charles Wang is giving up his CEO job and that it plans to spin off some of its software and services businesses.
In a major corporate realignment, Computer Associates International has announced that founder Charles Wang is giving up his CEO job and that it plans to spin off some of its software and services businesses.
The first unit that's being spun off is one that provides infrastructure technologies for application service providers, CA executives said. The company added that it also plans to sell off its Accpac desktop accounting software division and unspecified other business units in the future.
Global Logistics Technologies and New Meadows Venture Partners have launched SupplyLinks, an Internet-based global supply chain network, to link customers to various transportation modes and service providers through a single platform.
Pricing glitches at Staples.com and Amazon.com within the past two weeks left some customers happy but others miffed, as the firms scrambled to recover from discounts unintentionally given to some customers.
Amazon.com Inc. and Toysrus.com Inc. this week announced that they're teaming up to launch a new co-branded online toy and video game store this fall and a baby products site in the first half of next year.
FreeIM, a national group of America Online Inc. competitors that includes Microsoft Corp., iCast and Tribal Voice, Tuesday challenged AOL's testimony about its instant messaging service at the July 27 hearing on the proposed merger of AOL and Time Warner Inc.
The attorneys general of 44 states Thursday filed a legal brief in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston formally objecting to a proposed settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Toysmart.com that would allow the defunct online toy retailer to sell its customer data to another company under some circumstances.
In a service that it hopes will save customers time and money, United Parcel Service of America Inc. rolled out an enhanced tracking service that lets customers digitally receive a recipient's signature and proof of delivery.
GoFreight.com Inc., a privately held technology company in Dallas, last week unveiled instant messaging software that it claims will change the way the transportation industry does business.
Shoppers took advantage of a pricing glitch at Amazon.com and ordered toys at far lower prices, but the online retailer later informed the customers that they could pay the correct prices or cancel their orders.
A fresh controversy over the contentious issue of online privacy broke out yesterday with allegations that four Internet retailers are sharing personal information submitted by consumers with a marketing company -- charges that a spokesman for the marketing company said "totally" misconstrue what it's doing with the data.
In an attempt to further harness the power of the Internet to improve communication, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said it's exploring the possibility of offering consumers the ability to have their mail delivered electronically.