US online sales surge 13 percent for holiday period
Americans clicked up a record 30.8 billion dollars in online holiday sales in 2010, a jump of 13 percent from a year ago, a survey showed.
Americans clicked up a record 30.8 billion dollars in online holiday sales in 2010, a jump of 13 percent from a year ago, a survey showed.
Business
Dec 30, 2010
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Online retailer Amazon on Monday said its latest Kindle had become the company's best-selling product ever.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 27, 2010
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More than 60 percent of parents say video games have no effect on their children. Not true, says Marina Krcmar, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest, who studies the impact of video games on children and teens. ...
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2010
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Love them or hate them, holiday letters will soon be arriving in a mailbox near you. Chances are you may even be preparing to write one of your own. But in this age of Twitter, Facebook and text messaging, many people have ...
Other
Dec 15, 2010
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With the holidays fast approaching and consumers in full shopping mode, new research shows that a seemingly innocent luxury item purchase can lead to an unintended, budget-busting spending spree.
Economics & Business
Dec 14, 2010
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Over the past few years, buying a new TV got to be a pretty simple process.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 3, 2010
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The season of the tablet computer has arrived. Sparked eight months ago by Apple Inc.'s debut of the iPad, every major computer company is now trying to get one in stores in time for holiday shopping.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 2, 2010
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(AP) -- This holiday season, it will be hard to enter a store without setting eyes on a tablet computer or an e-reader. In both categories, big-name manufacturers - along with some you might not have heard of - are jumping ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 2, 2010
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Remember back in the early days of the Internet (which, our favorite reader, seems a strange thing to say) when so many people said all this online stuff was just a fad? Remember when IBM said that it could not see a ...
Internet
Dec 1, 2010
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Cyber Monday, when retailers offer hot deals online following the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, marked the biggest online spending day ever, data showed on Wednesday.
Business
Dec 1, 2010
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