Cover Story
An E-Christmas to Remember
With millions of shoppers flooding cyberspace, the holiday season may wind up being just as naughty as nice for e-tailers this year. Sure, many cybershops will rake in the dough, but far more are bound to come up short. And that could be their undoing. Already, bankrollers say that they will be looking for the top-tier online winners this season to make decisions on which startups will get funding in the future. And those that don't? They may end up as takeover bait
Editor's Memo
The Land of e-Everything
Home Page
Free promos without boundaries; no ad charity for dot.coms; you are what you read; stealing on the Web; 19 clicks of separation; beyond :-)
Perspective
One-Stop Financial Shopping?
Don't bet on it. Big brokers would love nothing better, but consumers aren't likely to bite amid all the competition
Data Mine
Waiting for a Grand Slam
Netizens click on sports more than travel or news, yet Web sports
merchants aren't cashing in
Strategies
Purchasing in Packs
Companies of all sizes are cutting
costs by joining forces in online
buying pools
Fox's New Star: The Net
In a new project code-named "Eight Ball," the studio tallies ticket sales, cuts costs, and targets movie releases
Here Comes the Sony Netman
The electronic giant sees its future in providing interactive games, movies, and videos for Sony-made devices
Management
How Fast Is Net Fast?
On the Web, companies have to be ready to change strategies virtually overnight
Good-bye, Door-to-Door Selling?
The future of few industries is as
precarious as direct sellers such as Avon, Tupperware, and Mary Kay
Personalities
Internet Capital's Young Turks
Walter Buckley and Kenneth Fox bet solely on e-commerce startups and joined them in keiretsu-style blocs
Upstarts
Open Market's Fall
Here's an e-biz early bird that didn't get the worm. What went wrong with the e-commerce software maker, and what's next
Home Field Disadvantage
A case study in why Europeans lose to American rivals
Clicks & Misses
Laugh, Cry--And Send A Card
Three online greeting card sites offer three distinct tones. Which one is right for you?
Digital Dispatch
I-Way Ads on the Highway
E-commerce companies, desperate to build their brands, are resorting to such old-fashioned advertising as highway billboards
Cutting Edge
What's with the Warehouses?
E-tailers see that they'll need bricks and mortar, too, to control the back rooms of e-biz
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Additional Q&As and more
Keep up with developments in the fast-paced world of E-business at ebiz.businessweek.com. The site offers the latest news from CNET and the staff of Business Week magazine and Business Week Online. Check out what we'll be analyzing in
our upcoming set of regular E-business features.
Monday
Perspective: Columnist Mike France writes about the Web and the law
(Oct. 25).
Tuesday
Company Closeup: A look at Breakaway Solutions Inc., a key holding of the Internet Capital Group (Oct. 26).
Wednesday
Movers & Shakers: Profile of Steve Peskaitis, chief executive of Lexon Technologies Inc. (Oct. 27).
Thursday
Street Wise: Amey Stone's commentary
on e-business stocks and the markets
(Oct. 28).
Friday
Clicks & Misses: Web-site review of
Furniture.com (Oct. 29)
Also,
Watch for daily additions to our Data Mine, a collection of facts and figures, and sample occasional opinion pieces by staffers, researchers, or executives. Browse through stories from Business Week and Business Week e.biz.
ebiz.businessweek.com is a free area of Business Week Online, although some stories from the magazine may occasionally be available only to subscribers.
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Photo-illustration by James Porto; background photograph by Rich Iwasaki/Tony Stone
Illustration by Tom White
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