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eBay recognizes it paid the wrong number for Internet phone company Skype

EBay will take a $1.43 million charge relating to Skype. That includes a $900 million reduction in the book value of the Internet calling service that eBay bought in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Skype’s top executives are being replaced.

Posted 10/02/2007Don DavisPost a comment

/ Technology

AOL e-mail system is up and running following system failure

AOL resumed e-mail service at 3 a.m., EST, following a system crash yesterday morning that left millions of messages stuck in a queue. The company asked e-mailers to stagger messages today.

Posted 06/02/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment

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AOL’s e-mail system fails, blocking millions of messages

AOL’s e-mail system crashed late this morning, leaving millions of messages stuck in a queue. AOL asked e-mailers to refrain from sending messages into the system until the problem is fixed.

Posted 06/01/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment

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More users bypassing browsers to access the web via Internet applications

76% of active web surfers have accessed the Internet through media players, instant messaging and file sharing applications instead of browsers, says Nielsen/NetRatings. Windows Media Player has the largest reach at 34% of the active user base.

Posted 12/30/2003Mary WagnerPost a comment

Achilles Heel

Half of all retail web sites are vulnerable to hackers, a ScanAlert executive says.

Posted 03/30/2007Internet RetailerPost a comment

Site performance makes or breaks an e-business; Monitoring software helps you stay

E-retailers wave the 24/7 banner as a strategic advantage over brick-and-mortar businesses. But downtime and system failures continue to tear away at that always-open image. Outages have struck a who’s who of Internet retailers, from Amazon.com to Toys ‘R’ Us. Last June, analysts had a field day ripping into eBay after a 22-hour system failure frustrated customers and drove down its stock price by 26%. Recently eBay renewed its contract with Sun...

Posted 12/26/2000Don DavisPost a comment

/ Press Release

SDL enters online retail market with acquisition of eCommerce software company Fredhopper

SDL plc (“SDL” or the “Company”), the leading provider of Global Information Management solutions, today announces the acquisition of Fredhopper, a recognized leader in targeting and marketing software for eCommerce. This acquisition is a further step in SDL’s strategy and commitment to delivering best-of -breed solutions for enterprises with complex, multilingual sales and marketing and customer support requirements. The gross assets being...

Posted 01/25/2010

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Digital River Expands E-Commerce Agreement with Skype

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 11, 2008 - Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it expanded its e-commerce agreement with Skype. As part of the agreement, Digital River is now hosting all of Skype’s e-commerce operations and globally supporting the newly designed online Skype Shop. The online Skype Shop, located at www.skype.com/shop, now features multiple languages and currencies. “We continue...

Posted 02/14/2008