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Staffing is by far the biggest expense for new companies, according to executives at VC-backed firms, who say they have to hire more employees if they want to grow rapidly to build their sites and gain market share. The stepped-up hiring leads to more spending, as larger quar...

Staffware plc, a UK-based software firm engaged in the process workflow industry, announced Friday that it has acquired Arlington, Texas-based CRM solutions provider MarketForce in a $20 million stock and cash deal The acquisition will allow Staffware to extend its workflow pr...

The Purchase, New York-based company said it will provide Freeinternet.com with the PeopleSoft Financial Management System and the Onyx CRM solution. Interliant will also host and manage the systems, and provide support and training to the ISP's staff. Freeinternet.com has 2....

The company said it spent more money during the latest quarter, as it invested in staff, customer support and infrastructure equipment. Personnel costs were the biggest expense, eBay said, though sales and marketing expenses also rose. The stock split is payable May 24th to s...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Inteliant Corporation, a division of SOS Staffing Services (Nasdaq: SOSS) and e-business applications provider BroadVisionInc., announced a comprehensive alliance Wednesday that will pool the companies' products and services The firms will focus on t...

Last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers launched its own B2B purchasing consortium called e.conomy, which offers member businesses discounts on indirect goods and services including office supplies, temporary staffing services and company travel. With over $17 billion in revenues l...

Brown added, "Old habits die hard. For instance, what's to persuade someone to order a pizza using a mobile application, rather than just picking up the phone? There would have to be significant value-add to change habits; perhaps discounts, an up-to-date menu on screen, easy selection of pizzas and toppings with a few key presses, and no busy signals or overworked counter staff." ...

In addition to lobbying House and Senate staffers, Disney executives have requested intervention by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and have apparently been sending out e-mails that are critical of AOL. ...

According to Forrester Research, firms will increasingly use the Internet to staff the Internet, as well as to find qualified employees for their offline ventures. By 2005, Forrester predicts that $4 billion will be spent to advertise jobs online, while revenues from online a...

The combined company plans to add staff in order to build its presence in new Internet service areas. Network Solutions (NSI) will become a subsidiary of VeriSign, and NSI CEO Jim Rutt will retain his position, reporting to VeriSign President and CEO Stratton Sclavos. ...

In addition, the FTC staff will assess Web sites' compliance with fair information practices by analyzing the sites' stated policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information that is gathered from consumers online. ...

Asiacontent.com integrates content, advertising and e-commerce and has launched 15 Web sites since its inception last May. The company has a staff of 325 in eight markets across Asia. It has joint venture agreements with CNET, controversial ad server DoubleClick and others. W...

Warner Bros. has introduced a new fashion-oriented Web site, The Fashion Maven, which supposedly allows consumers to purchase articles of clothing online that were recently worn by one of the entertainment giant's television or movie characters ...

Another problem for online car dealers is the heavy costs associated with implementing the national infrastructure, staff and real estate needed to handle used car procurement, refurbishment and delivery. Forrester asserts that such overhead will keep iMotors in the red for the foreseeable future.

On the marketing side, e-Steel's sales and marketing staff will get help from USX's relationships in the commercial steel industry. On the system integration side, USX software experts will work with e-Steel Exchange buyers and sellers to help them connect their back end business systems to the Exchange to improve supply chain operations.

Neither Clinton nor the group of Internet and e-commerce company executives, consumer advocacy groups, security experts, former hackers, and academics support regulating the Internet as a method of thwarting future hacker attacks, White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said. "The solutions that we talked about did not involve greater government regulation, or really even greater governmental power. The point was made that we do not need to reduce privacy as we enhance security in the network. Privacy and security go together, in fact." ...

According to CDT Staff Counsel Deirdre Mulligan, "You may have already been double-crossed by DoubleClick or you may be next in line. In either case, if you care about your privacy and want to surf the Web without your every move being recorded in a giant database connected to your name, its time to opt-out of DoubleClick's profiling." ...

During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple Computer launched the Macintosh with an ad that many advertising aficionados consider to be the best ever created. Since that time, daring companies have viewed the Super Bowl as the perfect venue at which to launch an "impact" product or service ...

Most of these sites, according to the report, "lack full-time e-tail leaders and the staff necessary to achieve substantial success over the Internet. In fact, 50 percent of the respondents said they had no clear e-Business leader at their companies." The data was delivered a...

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