Features

• Coupons 2.0: Social Buying Sites That Add Up to Savings

  By Kristin Burnham | 16 February, 2010 05:17

  A website makes you a deal: Pay $25, and they'll give you $50 worth of food at your favorite local restaurant. Sign me up, right? But wait, there's a catch: You need to convince as many of your friends as possible (and your friends' friends) to agree to this deal, because unless 100 people are interested, it's a no-go. Oh, and you have 24 hours to make this happen.

• Target dumps Amazon.com, reboots on e-commerce

  By Thomas Wailgum | 11 August, 2009 04:24

  Amazon.com has been down this road before: Like one-time Amazon e-commerce "partners" Toys R Us and Borders before them, Target executives announced last week that the world's second-largest retailer plans to say adios to Amazon.com and "build and manage its own platform for Target.com," with an expected launch date before the 2011 holiday season.

• E-commerce Fraud: The Latest Criminal Schemes

  By Joan Goodchild | 17 July, 2009 00:28

  E-commerce fraud costs retailers approximately $4 billion each year, according to the most recent results of an annual survey conducted by Cybersource, a provider of electronic payment and risk management services. Sebbe Jones, manager of fraud and disputes at 2Checkout, is in the business of keeping e-commerce fraud at bay.

• Online fraud hurting e-commerce adoption: Australian Retailers Association

  By Tim Lohman | 09 July, 2009 09:02

  Merchants, not consumers, banks or credit-card providers, are the hardest hit by online fraud.

• AFP hits $6 million identity fraud syndicate

  By CIO Staff | 03 July, 2009 08:25

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have struck a major blow to a multi-million identity fraud syndicate.

• EBay defends online ticket resales

  By Tim Lohman | 26 May, 2009 15:46

  EBay has defended its policies on the reselling of event tickets on its site following the mass posting of AC/DC tickets on its site just hours after the tickets went on sale, and promptly sold out, yesterday.

• Ticketek Thunderstruck by AC/DC ticket sales demand

  By Tim Lohman | 25 May, 2009 10:42

  Online ticket sales site Ticketek was this morning paralysed by demand for tickets to AC/DC’s Black Ice Australian tour, which went on sale this morning at 9am.

• Borders' New E-Commerce Strategy Falls Flat During Holidays

  By Thomas Wailgum | 10 January, 2009 07:49

  In 1971, Tom and Louis Borders opened an 800-square-foot used bookstore in the quintessential college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., and named it Borders Book Shop. Flash forward nearly 40 years, and their namesake book establishment, now expanded to 1,100 stores and 28,000 employees worldwide with a state-of-the-art e-commerce website, is in trouble on a Dickensian scale.