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Coldwater Creek replaces its CEO

In the wake of falling sales across all channels, Coldwater Creek has named co-founder Dennis Pence to replace Daniel Griesemer as CEO. In Q2, web sales fell 20.8%, while total revenue and retail sales fell 6.7% and 3.1%, respectively.

Posted 09/15/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Tough times continue for hard hit IT professionals

Salaries are down 2% to 15% since January 2007 for IT managers and executives, reports recruiting company Janco Associates. Many companies have laid off staff and outsourced IT work, reduced bonuses and eliminated IT contractors.

Posted 07/13/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Put a face to an e-commerce site, reputation expert advises

Consumers want to know who they’re doing business with, and that presents a special challenge for e-retailers that don’t interact with customers face to face, says the managing director of the Reputation Institute.

Posted 06/05/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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eBay narrows the gap, but Amazon is tops in traffic again, Nielsen says

Amazon.com attracted the most traffic among retail web sites last month, with nearly 57 million unique visitors, 4.3% more than eBay’s 54.5 million visitors, says Nielsen Online. In December, Amazon led by 6.4%.

Posted 02/27/2009Don DavisPost a comment

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Shop.org elects its 2009 board

Shop.org, the e-commerce unit of trade group the National Retail Federation, has elected its board for 2009.

Posted 09/08/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Best Buy and Microsoft executives join Merchant Risk Council board

The new board members are Tim Laudenbach, credit risk manager at BestBuy.com, and Karl Hebert, director of the Global Commerce Group at Microsoft. Five others were named to advisory positions at the trade association focused on fighting online fraud.

Posted 02/25/2008Don DavisPost a comment

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Merchant Risk Council elects new board members

The Merchant Risk Council elected 15 members to its 2006 board of directors at its fourth annual Internet fraud prevention conference earlier this week in Las Vegas.

Posted 02/23/2006Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Teens aren’t as good using the Internet as many believe.

Posted 02/28/2005Internet RetailerPost a comment