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Among dreamy startups and salty e-commerce veterans alike, Zappos.com appears to be the golden grail -- certainly one blessed, at least, with heavenly rewards. "Zappos is the Amazon of the shoe business, and its model is extremely difficult to mimic," Gene Alvarez, vice president of research at Gartner -- and former employee of shoe-biz powerhouse, Nine West Group -- told the E-Commerce Times.

Why do your best laid plans often go unfulfilled? You have put the right people in the right jobs, empowered them to achieve, drafted an excellent plan, and got the necessary buy-in and funding. Yet somehow things went into the ditch -- and now the project is late and over budget, delivering a poor return on investment. The fact is, knowing the path and walking the path are not the same thing.

A number of leading authorities have been urging caution on the adoption of Web-based services as a new wave of vendors unveil cloud initiatives. Cloud computing involves computing resources hosted in an off-premise "cloud" rather than an in-house computer room.

How closely will competitors follow in this latest digital home pursuit?

Spending a couple million dollars doesn't guarantee commercial success.

Lorelle VanFossen has written a fantastic series of articles on Blog Herald about the professional blogging industry. The series is helpful for both employers looking to hire bloggers and...

U.S. campaign is making a dent in offshore operations and folding more than a few hands of online Texas Holdem.

Continuing our look at why some websites struggle to make the impact that was hoped for, we lift the lid again on some of the reasons for failure and flag up the solutions.

Our e-mail marketing expert offers five time-sensitive tips for e-tailers who want to have a merry holiday selling season.

Gartner has released a list of the top 10 technologies that will dominate the landscape for the next three years. The release comes at a jittery time for technology stocks and early stage startups alike, with all the major market indexes on a downward spiral. The list comes just one day after the research firm cut its 2009 outlook on growth in IT spending from 5.8 percent to 2.3 percent.