Allowing joint bidding helps reduce potential mismatch between an e-tailer's costs and the consumer's bids on name-your-own-price websites like Priceline, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

TiVo has woken up from its television advertising slumber to strike a partnership with Amazon that seems to be welcome news for online shopping addicts. TiVo, who pioneered the digital video recorder (DVR), is looking to exploit the lucrative e-commerce business by striking a partnership with Amazon.

Endorsia International AB, the leading industrial premium brand network for buyers and sellers in the industrial supply chain, has chosen IBM (NYSE: IBM) to deliver Endorsia's new e-commerce B2B solution in eighty-five countries.

Akamai Japan K.K., a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, announced today that its Application Performance Solutions – enabling the Internet to be the platform for accelerating any critical enterprise application to anyone, anytime, anywhere – have been adopted for "TWX-21," the largest multi-companies e-Commerce service in Japan, provided by Hitachi, Ltd.

Mediasurface, Europe’s leading content management solution provider today announced it has joined forces with Munich based product information management (PIM) and e-Commerce expert, hybris, to deliver powerful, easy to use solutions for e-Commerce websites.

Computer scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands, are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore a next-generation model for safe and legal electronic commerce that uses Internet bandwidth as a global currency.

The electronic landscape is continually evolving; constantly changing technologies mean additional solutions are always available. To help auto parts retailers stay current with the latest trends to succeed in the marketplace, ACDelco – a leader in providing e-Business solutions to the automotive aftermarket – recently hosted its second-annual e-Business Forum.

Altera Corporation announced that its products are now available for sale through the Japanese website of Digi-Key, a major online vendor of electronic components.

Online shopping is big business. Websites selling everything from mp3 players and music to books and budget flights continue to thrive. Now, an international research team have devised a simple method for assessing the success of internet shops and e-commerce sites.

Web searchers who evaluated identical search-engine results overwhelmingly favored Yahoo! and Google, providing evidence that branding matters as much on the Internet as off, according to a Penn State study.

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