The U.S. Commerce Department yesterday released its online retail sales figures. Their estimate: $5.3 billion in sales during Q4 1999, or about 1% of overall retail sales. That’s a bit lower than estimates from research firms like Jupiter and Forrester. The Commerce Dept.’s… Read the rest
Month: March 2000 (Page 5 of 5)
Credit card fraud is a much bigger problem for online merchants than it is for shoppers. The Industry Standard’s long story on the topic goes a long way towards explaining why — and it describes the credit card processing system in great detail along the way.… Read the rest
DoubleClick continues to apologize, and has promised not to link personal data with browsing trails until the U.S. government comes up with clear privacy standards. That should be about never, I figure.
DoubleClick, Yielding on Privacy, Promises to Wait on Linking of Data… Read the rest
“Data spillage” discovered at Quicken.com — data that customers entered into mortgage calculators got sent to DoubleClick. Intuit has plugged the leak — but there may be similar leaks at Travelocity, Buy.com, and other sites.
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Keiretsus, zaibatsus: While these corporate syndicates may tread around the fuzzy edges of anti-trust regulations in the U.S., commentator Aaron Goldberg says they were responsible for Japan’s exceedingly rapid postwar industrial growth — and may do the same for the Internet economy.… Read the rest
DoubleClick just can’t seem to get a break — AltaVista is starting to limit the information they share with their erstwhile partner, while Kozmo.com is looking for a new ad-serving partner.
DoubleClick held at arm’s length by partners
AltaVista, Kozmo Distance Themselves
From DoubleClick Over Privacy Worries
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