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Most Tech Stocks Were Naughty, Some Nice and Only Apple Merry, as Year Ends
The stock market is closed today, as part of the Christmas holiday. But it is doubtful — barring any major announcements — that the vastly different performances seen by a range of tech companies will...
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Survey Sez: Consumers Still Miffed at Netflix, but Give Even Bigger Kiss to...
It’s not clear if Netflix’s recent series of snafus are Amazon’s gain or not. But in a just-released report by ForeSee, one went up and one went down. It’s an easy guess which was which. In the...
View ArticleKindle Fire Heats Up Holiday for Amazon
Amazon said this holiday season was the best ever for its Kindle, with more than four million Kindle devices sold in the month of December. The company also said that its new tablet, the $199 Kindle...
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Can We Say Damage Control? Amazon Talks Up Its Role in the Success of...
Amazon is not all about squashing the little guy, or at least that’s what it wants you to believe this holiday season. Take Reiss Innovations, for example. Six years ago, owner Ken Reiss was selling...
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Did Kindle Gift Cards Outsell iTunes Gift Cards This Holiday?
It’s possible Kindle gift cards outperformed iTunes gift cards this holiday — if what people were searching for online is any indication. According to Experian Hitwise, the top search query the week...
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There Better Be Some Cool Stuff at CES, Because CE Holiday Sales Data Bytes!
Just as the annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off this week, according to a report from the NPD Group: Consumer electronics sales during this past holiday period dropped six percent from last...
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eBay Reports Better Than Expected Revenues for Holiday Quarter
EBay, the e-commerce and digital payments giant, exceeded expectations in the fourth quarter with revenues totaling $3.4 billion, or 35 percent higher than the year-ago period. The results beat both...
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As Yahoo Readies Doling Out Alibaba Billions to Shareholders, Mayer Memo Says...
Yahoo could announce in the coming week what it plans to do with the billions of dollars it recently garnered after closing the sale of a portion of its stake in China’s Alibaba, according to sources...
View ArticleHouseTrip.com Locks in $40 Million for European Rentals Site
London-based HouseTrip.com, which is focused on the European vacation-home market, has raised $40 million in funding. The round was led by Accel Partners, with existing investors Balderton Capital and...
View ArticleAmazon to Hire 50,000 Elves to Help Out Santa This Christmas
How many employees does it take for Amazon to fulfill holiday orders? About 70,000. Amazon said it will hire more than 50,000 seasonal employees on top of the current 20,000 working at its 40 U.S....
View ArticleWine: the Web's Final Frontier
Online sales are expected to grab an increasing share of holiday shopping this season. But one product category remains stubbornly resistant to the trend: wine. While bigger online audiences and...
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Yahoo CEO Mayer Cuts End-of-Year "Week of Rest" for Employees, While Prepping...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now starting to unveil the flip side of free lunches and smartphones, with two employee-focused moves that are a little more tough love in nature. According to several...
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Food for Thought: Apps That Indulge Your Inner "Top Chef"
This week, Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season. It’s time to eat, drink and be merry. Okay, who are we kidding: It’s time to frantically cook, worry about what drinks to serve, and feel utterly...
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LittleBits Wants to Babysit Your Tech-Savvy Kids This Holiday Season
Many have joked about iPad-as-baby-sitter (because it’s true). Who would actually plop an iDevice in their kid’s hands just to keep him or her busy for a few minutes? (A lot of people.) Now LittleBits,...
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Mobile Thursday? Smartphone Shopping Is Still Tiny, But It's This Year's Big...
In what has become an annual holiday tradition, those who keep track of these things have started in on touting just how digital the holiday shopper has become, whipping out all manner of buzzwords to...
View ArticleHoliday Price War Rages in Real Time
While shoppers jostled and shoved their way through the usual long lines for Black Friday retail deals, a new and more pitched battle was being fought online that promises to redraw how stores plan for...
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We're Holiday Shopping Online With iPads for iPads
With all the hyped hullabaloo around just how mobile-icious we are this holiday season — yes, it’s up, but it is also a retailer-cooked trend that reporters grab onto amid the news drought of the...
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Computer Potatoes: Black Friday Online Shopping Crosses $1 Billion in 2012
According to yet another online shopping survey for the holiday shopping season, this one from comScore, people are buying a lot more online than last year. I know this people-buying-stuff-online...
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Square Slides Into Apple's Passbook With Digital Gift Cards
Square, the digital payments company known mostly for its square-shaped, credit card-processing gadget, is giving its users a gift this holiday season. Lots of them, actually: The company just rolled...
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Viral Video: "Grease" Reunion Is the One That You Don't Want
I’m not quite sure what to think of this awkward traffic accident of a music video that reunites Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, who played star-crossed high-school squeezes so adorably in the...
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