the tweney review

Fast online credit service aims to make it easier to drop large amounts at e-commerce sites:
eCredit expedites online financing

Quick! Call the Feds! We need to throw some serious R&D money at this critical problem, before it undermines the economy and the American way of life!
Gift, card sites break a few hearts

The Red Herring discovers that, despite the huge amount of venture capital out there, it actually takes a lot of *work* to make a successful startup:
Redherring.com - Fish or Cut Bait: How green is the Valley?

Hey, I’ve been quoted in the Wall Street Journal Interactive:
Dodge’s E-conomy — WSJ Interactive Edition

Not enough medical advertising dollars to go around all the new health-related sites, according to this MSNBC story:
Health sites face ad spending squeeze

Do Web companies have the right to send “bots” out to scan other companies’ online databases? That’s the crux of a debate on Capitol Hill now — and of a fight between eBay and auction-watch site Bidder’s Edge. The outcome of this battle has serious implications for Internet business, since it will affect not only bots, but also search engines’ spiders.
Two sides debate database protection bills

The largest e-grocer, it turns out, is British supermarket chain Tesco — and they’ve got a decidedly low-tech approach to e-commerce, with little more than Dell servers, BackOffice software, and 7,000 packers who wander down the aisles of your local Tesco store picking up the items to fill your order.
The world’s biggest online grocer

E-business outsourcing, the next generation? Andreessen’s new company, Loudcloud, thinks it can bring dot com startups to market 2.5 times faster:
Loudcloud surfaces with e-commerce hosting solution