UPS toils at European on-line commerce
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United Parcel Service of America Inc. sees difficulties in establishing itself in the European Internet territory. According to the company, among the problems that keep retailers from the Internet are taxes, duties and custom rules. Retailing over the Internet is also made difficult by the inexperience of European merchants who have naive Internet strategies and slow infrastructure. The company started in the Internet in 1997 with the launch of e-Christmas, a polyglot website shop which was created in alliance with Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. Although the result was not very encouraging, the company has expanded the site and teamed up with global tech companies.
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Sees difficulties in establishing itself in the European Internet territory
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 1998
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CompuServe Europe beefs up service
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CompuServe Europe discloses plans to upgrade its online services in an effort to revive market interest for its flagging operations. CompuServe Europe looks to offer a more user-friendly product to its customers and to boost its marketing initiatives. The firm also seeks to implement different plans that will enable it to reduce its expenditures. CompuServe Europe's service-upgrading and cost-cutting initiative is seen as very important for the firm to maintain its competitiveness in the intensely-competitive market for online services.
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Discloses plans to upgrade its online services in an effort to revive market interest for its flagging operations
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 1998
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Phone bills inflame European net surfers, and the mouse roars
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Internet use costs twice as high in Europe as it does in the US because of high telephone costs. This has limited Internet expansion and electronic commerce in Europe. However, major consumer protests are convincing Internet firms to find ways to reduce prices dramatically for using the Internet. Many customers have been attracted to these offers. For example, Spanish national phone company Telefonica SA is offering cheaper rates in return for bulk telephone time purchases.
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Europe: Internet firms to find ways to reduce prices dramatically for Internet use as customers protest high phone rates
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 1999
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