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Internet Daily for Tuesday, May 22, 2001
by Frank Barnako CBS MarketWatch.com

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Amazon.com expands Toys R Us relationship

A revamped Babiesrus.com Web site will reportedly launch this
week as part of a widening relationship between Amazon.com and
Toys R Us . The new children's products retail Web site will
include a baby shower registry, a spokeswoman for Amazon.com told
the Seattle Times. The Babiesrus.com effort comes almost nine
months after the two companies agreed to a 10-year deal under
which Toys R Us handles the inventory and Amazon.com does the
site and order fulfillment on the Toysrus.com Web site. "I think
it's (clear) that the alliance is working," said Jeanne Myer,
Toys R Us vice president of corporate communications.

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Web grocers' problem is obvious

You can't blame someone at Peapod or Webvan for watching gasoline
costs. The expense of making home deliveries is sky high,
according to senior analyst Ken Cassar at Jupiter Media Metrix .
He calculates Webvan and Peapod spend $27 to process each order
and two-thirds of the expense is for delivery. "Given the current
low level of consumer demand, delivery costs are breaking the
backs of online-only grocery retailers," Cassar wrote in a
report.

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Internet radio listening rises

MeasureCast Inc. reported Tuesday a 14% increase in Web radio
usage during the week of May 14-20. The research company's index
shows consumption of Web radio has risen almost 50% since the
start of the year. Broadcasters with strong weeks included
ClickLive's WLIR-FM, which doubled the number of hours streamed,
CableMusic Network's Hot 100, which had a 97% increase, and
KNIK-FM, streamed through WarpRadio, which notched a 66% gain in
time spent listening.

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UPS acquires IShip.com

Stamps.com Inc. sold its IShip.com Internet service to United
Parcel Service . Terms of the transaction were not released.
IShip is a service shippers can use to compare costs among
Federal Express, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.

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Ask Jeeves buys Web guide service

Ask Jeeves Inc. announced it has acquired assets of ETour Inc.,
which offers Web users "tour packages" of sites arranged by
category. The amount of cash involved in the transaction was not
disclosed. ETour.com claims to have 4.5 million registered users.
Ask Jeeves said it would use ETour.com's technology to direct its
users to sets of Web sites meeting their interests. The Web site
tours include editorially selected Web sites and Web sites that
pay to be included. Ask Jeeves will keep the ETour.com Web site
open.

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Olympics ticket sales begin on EBay

Tickets to next year's ice hockey and figure skating competition
at the Salt Lake City Olympics are drawing bids for thousands of
dollars on Ebay . Sales began yesterday with the cooperation of
the Games' organizing committee. The auction continues for two
weeks, offering 100 front-row tickets to 11 events. If the
tickets sell for more than their original face value, the balance
will be donated to the VIII Paralympic Games, which will be held
next March in Salt Lake City.

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