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