Holiday Spending Numbers Come in Below Projections
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Holiday Spending Numbers Come in Below Projections

25y Michael Pastore

Holiday Spending Numbers Come in Below Projections

Jupiter Research and The NPD Group, Inc. both estimate that online spending during the 2000 holiday season came in below their projections, but both c...

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Consumers Continue Online Purchases
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Consumers Continue Online Purchases

25y Michael Pastore

Consumers Continue Online Purchases

Despite the fact that 2000 was a year of devastating defeat for many pure-play e-tailers and caution for the investment community, consumers around th...

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Access Rising, But Ethnic Groups Perceiving Net Differently
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Access Rising, But Ethnic Groups Perceiving Net Differently

25y Michael Pastore

Access Rising, But Ethnic Groups Perceiving Net Di...

Internet access by multicultural audiences has doubled during the past two years, but the technology is stillbeing adopted a slower pace in part becau...

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Interest High, But Internet Too Costly for Inner City
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Interest High, But Internet Too Costly for Inner City

25y Michael Pastore

Interest High, But Internet Too Costly for Inner C...

A survey sponsored by FleetBoston of inner-city residents in five Northeastern cities cites high interest in using the Internet, but adoption of theme...

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Net Economy Casts Wide Net
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Net Economy Casts Wide Net

25y Christopher Saunders

Net Economy Casts Wide Net

According to a study of the nation's Internet economy by the University of Texas Business School and commissioned by Cisco Systems, sales and marketin...

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Top 50 Sites of December 2000
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Top 50 Sites of December 2000

25y Michael Pastore

Top 50 Sites of December 2000

The Top 50 sites of December 2000, according to PC Data Online. Read More...

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Cable Subscribers Show Interest in iTV
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Cable Subscribers Show Interest in iTV

25y Michael Pastore

Cable Subscribers Show Interest in iTV

How many consumers are interested in interactive TV? CTAM says the number approaches 80 percent of digital cable TV subscribers, many of whom already ...

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Global Internet Population Moves Away from US
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Global Internet Population Moves Away from US

25y Michael Pastore

Global Internet Population Moves Away from US

Only one-quarter of the global Internet population will reside in the US by 2005, but only one-third of American online businesses are targeting globa...

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Broadband Moving On Up
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Broadband Moving On Up

25y Michael Pastore

Broadband Moving On Up

Broadband is moving on up, to apartments, condominiums, offices, and hotels, and equipment and services for providing broadband to multiple tenant uni...

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Top E-Tailers of December 2000
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Top E-Tailers of December 2000

25y Michael Pastore

Top E-Tailers of December 2000

The Top 20 e-tailers of December 2000, according to PC Data Online. Read More...

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European PC Market Approaches Saturation
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European PC Market Approaches Saturation

25y Michael Pastore

European PC Market Approaches Saturation

The penetration of home PCs in Europe will gradually level out toward 2005, with a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent, according to a report by ...

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Claims of Web Fraud Numerous, Incidents Less Likely
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Claims of Web Fraud Numerous, Incidents Less Likely

25y Michael Pastore

Claims of Web Fraud Numerous, Incidents Less Likel...

Web-based fraud claims are rising dramatically, accounting for two-thirds of all the fraud cases investigated by the Commercial Crime Service of the I...

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Shoppers Say E-Commerce Was Good for Them
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Shoppers Say E-Commerce Was Good for Them

25y Michael Pastore

Shoppers Say E-Commerce Was Good for Them

Everyday seems to bring another e-tailer pulling the plug, but those who used the Internet to shop online during the 2000 holiday season were generall...

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Tech Toys, Gadgets Competing for Consumers' Time and Money
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Tech Toys, Gadgets Competing for Consumers' Time and Money

25y rumo

Tech Toys, Gadgets Competing for Consumers' Time a...

The newest gadgets in consumer electronics and technology fared quite well over the holidays, according to NPD, and consumers are also expressing inte...

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UK Users Flock to E-Tailing Sites
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UK Users Flock to E-Tailing Sites

25y Michael Pastore

UK Users Flock to E-Tailing Sites

More than 5 million Internet users in the UK made a secure connection at an e-tailing site in November of 2000, an increase of more than 3.25 million ...

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Cards, E-Mail Take the Holiday Cake
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Cards, E-Mail Take the Holiday Cake

25y Michael Pastore

Cards, E-Mail Take the Holiday Cake

Plenty of Americans used the Internet this holiday season, they just didn't use it to buy things. According to a report by the Pew Internet & American...

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Awash in Media: Online Kids Show Broad Use of TV, Phone, Radio
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Awash in Media: Online Kids Show Broad Use of TV, Phone, Radio

25y Michael Pastore

Awash in Media: Online Kids Show Broad Use of TV, ...

The inter-penetration of media consumption is nowhere more evident than among kids who use the Internet. According to a Nickelodeon Online/Harris Inte...

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210 Dot-coms Closed in 2000, E-Commerce Leads the Way
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210 Dot-coms Closed in 2000, E-Commerce Leads the Way

25y Michael Pastore

210 Dot-coms Closed in 2000, E-Commerce Leads the ...

In a year when $87 billion was spent on mergers and acquisitions in the dot-com industry, some 210 Internet companies were forced to shutter operation...

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Religious Communities Using Internet to Educate, Communicate
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Religious Communities Using Internet to Educate, Communicate

25y Michael Pastore

Religious Communities Using Internet to Educate, C...

Many churches and synagogues have found new energy and purpose through use of the Internet, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life P...

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PC Sales Close Year on Down Note
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PC Sales Close Year on Down Note

25y rumo

PC Sales Close Year on Down Note

Despite a spike just before Christmas, sales of desktop computers in retail stores and by direct/mail companies declined by approximately 24 percent i...

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Department Stores, Offline Names Carry Online Shopping Load
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Department Stores, Offline Names Carry Online Shopping Load

25y Michael Pastore

Department Stores, Offline Names Carry Online Shop...

Online shoppers spent more than $6 billion this holiday season, according to BizRate.com, with more than 52 million orders placed online between Nov. ...

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Some Internet Sectors Weather the Storm
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Some Internet Sectors Weather the Storm

25y Michael Pastore

Some Internet Sectors Weather the Storm

Despite widening losses, deteriorating cash flows, and increased difficulty in raising capital, some Internet industry sub-sectors are retaining or ev...

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Retail Site Performance Improves Over '99
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Retail Site Performance Improves Over '99

25y Michael Pastore

Retail Site Performance Improves Over '99

Despite fair performance overall, some individual e-commerce sites had their problems keeping up with the shoppers this holiday season, according to K...

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eBooks Will Fall to Multichannel Publishing
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eBooks Will Fall to Multichannel Publishing

25y Michael Pastore

eBooks Will Fall to Multichannel Publishing

Despite the expectations of publishers, a report by Forrester Research forecasts slow growth for both eBooks and eBook reading devices. Read More...

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Nearly 8 Million UK Households Online
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Nearly 8 Million UK Households Online

25y Michael Pastore

Nearly 8 Million UK Households Online

Over the third quarter of 2000, an average of 7.8 million households in the UK could access the Internet from home, more than three times the number t...

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Shoppers Hit Net Early in 2000
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Shoppers Hit Net Early in 2000

25y Michael Pastore

Shoppers Hit Net Early in 2000

Nielsen//NetRatings, Media Metrix, and PC Data don't exactly agree on when the peak of the 2000 holiday shopping season hit the Internet, but it does ...

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Men More Involved in PC Purchases
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Men More Involved in PC Purchases

25y Michael Pastore

Men More Involved in PC Purchases

When it comes to choosing which PC brand their household will buy, men make more of the final decisions than do women, according to a survey of more t...

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