ecommerce round-up
The Yearly Round-Up
Comment The politicians say this country should be the best place in the world to do ecommerce, but don't seem to know what to do about broadband. We've got an e-minister, an e-envoy and an ecommerce minister, but all they seem to do is give speeches. [14 Dec 2001]
Unwanted broadband licences go up for sale, again
News Ecommerce minister Douglas Alexander today announced that the remaining 26 licences will be sold on a first-come-first served basis. The successful bidders in round one were Broadnet, Chorus, Eircom, Energis, Faultbasic and Norweb. [19 Jul 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Carly, Cary and getting ebusiness right
Comment Surprisingly, the study found that the number of people interested in using m-commerce is in some markets more than eight-fold the number of people actually using ecommerce today. Those ecommerce folks are not dead yet. [08 Jun 2001]
Brown's Budget: Share and share alike
Comment When silicon.com spoke to influential high-tech industry figures before the budget, they highlighted ecommerce tax breaks, the scrapping and simplification of certain taxes and improving national insurance charges on share options as areas of... [08 Mar 2001]
The Usual Suspects
Comment So: the UK is the best place in Europe to do ecommerce is it? Now far be it from the Round-Up to defend BT, but as this issue begins to sink further into the mire, let's fling some muck around and see where else it sticks. [09 Feb 2001]
Future fun: Napster and downloadable digital games
News UK Smart and Splash Plastic are looking to attract users too young - or too fearful - to own a credit card, and therefore excluded from ecommerce. Finally, to round off this round up of ebusiness entertainment, The Financial Times tells of two... [30 Jan 2001]
Freeserve wannabe Wanadoo: What the deal means
Comment Wanadoo now needs to move beyond what it thinks is the main revenue stream of advertising, and focus on ecommerce sales - be it an enlargement of auction platforms or its directory service, alapage. Wanadoo's acquisition of Freeserve marks France... [07 Dec 2000]
An e-minister abroad (part 5): mobile mania and making friends
News The ecommerce minister is tired after five days of travelling but even on this last day in the drought-stricken, northern province of Gujarat she puts in an impressive performance. Do you have any questions you'd like to put to the ecommerce minister? [06 Nov 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Boo's back baby, ISPs go global and Microsoft's Whistler
Comment The main areas of interest for this joint venture are roaming services, content and ecommerce while also exchanging information about local market conditions and technology. This time round the guerrilla marketing campaign has a budget of a mere... [06 Nov 2000]
The world wide zzzzzzz
Comment Is ecommerce e-pants? We get a fair few emails at silicon.com from frustrated users of various ecommerce sites, complaining that their orders have failed to turn up on time (or, indeed, at all). You're reading the Weekly Round-Up, not watching the... [13 Oct 2000]
Unmetered manoeuvres in the dark
Comment Tony Blair wants the UK to be the best place in Europe to do ecommerce. In fact, the site is now so good, we picked up another award this week (the European Ecommerce Association's gong for best biz-to-biz website. [22 Sep 2000]
Industry giants pump $115m into niche B2B player
News The announcement looks set to up the stakes in the growing B2B sector, as increasing numbers of industry heavyweights buy their way into niche ecommerce technologies. B2B software house Asera has received $115m of third round funding from some of... [30 Aug 2000]
boo.com struggles to keep top staff
News Rob Shepherd, who was responsible for developing the ecommerce strategy at boo.com, resigned yesterday to join Web portal Chello Broadband NV, a unit of Dutch Cable television company, United Pan-European Communications NV. [12 May 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft's BizTalk, Sun's $75 Solaris, and ecommerce in America
Comment Measuring the worth of ecommerce* A study from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter has discovered that ecommerce is a strategic priority for 63 per cent of CIOs in the Fortune-300. But, according to the study, larger companies are both financially and... [30 Jan 2000]
WTO tries to bridge gap between tax and technology
News Industry heavyweights AOL, AT&T and Microsoft are amongst those lobbying the US government for a permanent ban on ecommerce taxation. Major sticking points include agriculture, the lowering of tariffs on industrial goods and whether developing... [24 Nov 1999]
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