Wednesday 08 September 2010
Germany-based ISP United Internet reports a 3.7 percent increase in revenues to EUR 844.5 million for the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 2008. The EBITDA grew by 1.4 percent to EUR 174.2 million and the EBIT grew by the same percentage to EUR 148 million. Due to negative profit contributions of associated companies and higher interest expenses, United Internet’s net profit decreased 7.8 percent year-on-year to EUR 82.7 million and the earnings per share (EPS) amounted to EUR 0.36 compared with EUR 0.39 in the previous year. The product segment saw its revenues grow by 6.1 percent to EUR 745.6 million, while the online marketing segment reports a 11.5 percent drop in revenues to EUR 98.6 million, due to the economic crisis causing a slump in advertising. On 30 June of this year United Internet had 9.05 million paying customers including the approximetaly 700,000 Freenet DSL users, which were acquired in May of this year. The total number of internet customers grew to 3.63 million including 3.47 DSL customers, growing by 23 percent during the second quarter of this year. United Internet’s DSL customer base consists of 1.89 million resale customers and 1.58 million unbundled customers. Freenet’s webhosting customer base grew by 100,000 during the quarter to 3.96 million on 30 June of this year, This includes 2.07 webhosting users outside Germany. The management board of United Internet has raised its forecasts for the full year and now expects revenues to grow by around 5 percent over the comparable prior-year figure of EUR 1.57 billion. A similar year-on-year increase of around 5 percent is also expected for EBITDA and EBIT. The number of customer contracts is expected to grow by around 1.25 million by year-end 2009 to approx. 9.20 million, including approx. 3.42 million DSL contracts (+600,000).
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LexiConn Internet Services, Inc., a privately held provider of web hosting and e-commerce services, has announced the release of two new add-on modules for the ShopSite e-commerce software solution.
The Quick Order module integrates seamlessly with ShopSite, allowing customers to enter SKUs and quantities into one form for easy addition to the shopping cart. This is useful for stores that publish any type of catalog as their customers can then place orders accurately and efficiently, saving the time of tracking down each individual product on the website. The module provides a confirmation of products entered, and also verifies that all inputted SKUs are valid before the products are added to the cart.
The LexiConn Shipping Module (LSM) ties directly into ShopSite, offering merchants a multi-faceted shipping application that can be used to effectively implement complex shipping scenarios. Features include restricting or allowing shipping options based on the customer’s country or state, as well as SKU based restriction capabilities. A merchant can enable shipping by weight, shipping by currency, or a flat rate in conjunction with configured restrictions to create a comprehensive shipping solution.
“ShopSite is a leader in e-commerce software solutions, and we are glad to be able to further enhance the software by providing our merchants with more flexibility for their shipping and sales offerings” says Jason McGrath, CEO of LexiConn. “We have worked with ShopSite for over 12 years, and we will continue to develop additional functionality to complement the software, thereby improving our clients’ ability to succeed online.”
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