January Sales Roundup

| MCM staff

January brought a mixed bag of financial results for the publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT.

A Dearth of Search Among Big-Box Retailers

| Brian Quinton

(Searchline) If you’re a small or midsize e-commerce site trying to compete with large retailers, take heart: As long as you manage an active search marketing campaign that takes in both pay-per-click ads and organic optimization,

Penney Signs with the Polo Team

| Tim Parry

Polo Ralph Lauren’s global brand concepts division will launch a lifestyle brand that will be exclusive to multichannel merchant J.C. Penney Co.

The State of Online Security: Not So Good

| MCM staff

Half of all Websites are vulnerable to database attacks, according to security data collected from 27,000 ScanAlert customers for a recently published report. Forty-five percent of Websites had a serious database vulnerability

Financial Reports: IAC, Overstock.com

| MCM staff

Sales growth isn’t enough to stave of a profit plunge at IAC/InterActiveCorp, while Overstock.com doesn’t even have sales growth to console it for its stepper losses